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reprznt · Post by **reprznt** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:59 pm

many of my older Computer Music Magazine's have cover disks with Kontakt sample kits.... are there any other samplers that work with Kontakt kits, other than Kontakt? How can i use these kits in Fl Studio? thanks

torhan · Post by **torhan** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:01 pm

Sorry - Nope. Kontakt format is proprietary.

reprznt · Post by **reprznt** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:02 pm

is there a stripped down version of Kontakt available? Or perhaps some other (cheaper) NI software that can play
kontakt kits? or a demo? or can these kits be converted to another format?

snooky · Post by **snooky** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:03 pm

torhan wrote:Sorry - Nope. Kontakt format is proprietary.

http://www.chickensys.com/

torhan · Post by **torhan** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:08 pm

snooky wrote:
torhan wrote:Sorry - Nope. Kontakt format is proprietary.

http://www.chickensys.com/

Ok, ok! But no sampler can read them directly

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:09 pm

snooky wrote: http://www.chickensys.com/

Does it handle encrypted instruments though?

safeaim · Post by **safeaim** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:12 pm

Nope.. Would risk getting sued by companies owning the encrypted instruments I guess..

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:19 pm

quote from JMC on Looptalk:

JMC wrote :

Is the new directwave sampler able to load soundfonts?

It currently imports Wav, Akai & soundfonts.

We are working on support for :

Kontakt, Battery, Giga, NN-XT, Recycle EXS-24.

... & hope to get it ready in time for FL6.

See ya,

jmc

safeaim · Post by **safeaim** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:24 pm

Snap!
My love for Image-Line just keeps growing

dougsyo · Post by **dougsyo** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:04 pm

Generic Kontakt instruments (typically a .nki file plus wav files) can be read by VSampler. If I remember right, some sample vendors provide a set of wav files plus the .fxb for Halion and the .nki for Kontakt the same time. If the files are named "sensibly" then it may be possible for a sampler to build from just the wav files (I did this with vsampler and some of the HollowSun samples to make soundfonts).

There are other formats that NI uses, for example "one big file" that holds all the sample data. Some of these are encrypted as well. I suspect that programs other than Kontakt won't touch these.

Kompakt ($200 or so, if I remember right) can also read NI format, although I don't know if it can read encrypted instruments, but it can read the big bundled files.

Recently I've seen some instruments come out in Kontakt2 format. For those, right now, you pretty-much have to settle for buying Kontakt2. Academic price is down to $200 right now (when I got it six weeks ago, it was $269 - ouch).

Doug

kubamajer · Post by **kubamajer** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:48 pm

Reprznt - maybe that software will help you a bit?
Extreme Sample Converter - It works quite smothly.

Best, Kuba

timobrien · Post by **timobrien** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:27 pm

reprznt wrote:is there a stripped down version of Kontakt available? Or perhaps some other (cheaper) NI software that can play
kontakt kits? or a demo? or can these kits be converted to another format?

Yes. Kompakt ($199).

I use it with Kontakt, EXS, soundfont and Gigastudio files.

Bob Nova · Post by **Bob Nova** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:19 pm

timobrien wrote:
Yes. Kompakt ($199).

I use it with Kontakt, EXS, soundfont and Gigastudio files.

Yeah, me too.

how do i use kontakt kits if i do not own kontakt