Free Kontakt libraries anywhere?

[Optomadic]

Taking the K3 plunge and need as many free libraries I can find to test out with it.

Wondering if there was a resource for free Kontakt libraries. Mainly guitars (telecaster, gibson etc.)

Let me know if you know please.

Thanks

[pettinhouse]

Hi Opto,

Have you forgotten about me?

Bass, guitars, drums here:

http://www.pettinhouse.com/html/download.html


Andrea

[Optomadic]

That was the 1st place I went. I was just wondering if there were any others to compare to your excellence ..

Thanks

[zvon]

Even if the full libraries are not free (but they're inexpensive), you can try the free demos of my Chromatic Hits and Sidekick sets. Both contain enough percussion sounds to keep you busy for a while (sorry, no guitars). Grab them from this page:
http://www.lesproductionszvon.com/freesounds.htm

[Cyrosis]

I think its 33gb library will keep you busy for a little while, no?

[RyanG]

Hi Opto,

Have you forgotten about me?

Bass, guitars, drums here:

http://www.pettinhouse.com/html/download.html


Andrea

Pettinhouse ftw!

[DocAtlas]

You could also download a some of the free sounds that are out there in other formats, and try K3's import function. You might have fun applying Kontakt's various filters & modulators to some otherwise ordinary samples.

[viudu]

You've got to check out the souniccouture site:

http://www.soniccouture.com/

They have some excellent free demos of their libraries.

Don't think many guitars though...

[Watto]

Have you forgotten about me?

Hey mate,

This is very bad form, but I was just wondering if you'd ever consider a group buy or summer discount or something on your vinyl acoustic kits? I'm well aware they're great value at the price they are now, but I never quite press the buy button - a bit above impulse buy price for me.

Anyway, just letting you know that if you ever DO offer a discount for poor bastards, put me on your mailing list or let us know here at KVR! I'd be signed up in a flash

[Sascha Franck]

Well, you could just expand your hunt for free libraries on EXS, SF2 and GS formats. That might give you plenty more options.

[Optomadic]

Hey thanks a lot so far guys!

[pettinhouse]

Watto,

I never considered a group buy, main reason because I don't know how to do that!

Ok if someone call tell me how can I start a group buy I can consider this option.

Thank you

Andrea

[Watto]

Well, they usually work by offering stages of discount according to group buy members, so if you start at your price of $69, you could have:

1-20 people: $59
21-50 people: $49
50-100 people: $39
100-200 people: $29

...for example

I can't remember whether the members give their credit card details straight away, or not, but if you need a hand with that, there are plenty of people on here who are familiar with the process - just start a thread in the Market Place!

[koolkeys]

Just to expand on Watto's post, you would usually charge each person the lowest possible price that the group buy will go. So in his example, everyone pays $29 up front. At the conclusion of the group buy, if that level isn't reached, you bill each person for the difference between what they paid and the level it actually reached. So if everyone pays $29 up front, and 75 people buy(the $39 range), you would bill each person for $10.

If the group buy reaches it's full amount before time is up, you could then start mailing out the product, or sending links for downloads, depending on the item you are selling.

Brent

[Watto]

Thanks, Brent - I thought that was the case, but couldn't remember for sure.