Is Receptor compatible with these Midi libraries
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- KVRer
- 10 posts since 3 Oct, 2008 from South Florifa
I've been buying up the best instrument samples I can find and they all turn out to be programmed for Kontakt. I'm primed to buy Receptor KOMPLETE Inside to handle the latency problems and other quirks I'm experiencing with my Sweetwater Creation Station Plus.. I was advised to make sure KOMPLETE came preinstalled because installing it was not a lead pipe cinch. I'm concerned about the compatability of Receptor with my Midi Libraries. These are the titles I have: Garritan Jazz & Big Band (which is activated by Native Instruments), Prominy SC Electric Guitar (also activated by Native Instruments), Pettinhouse Jazz Guitar (programmed for Kontakt), and Essential Vibraphone by Edge Software (also programmed for Kontakt). How easy is it to make these titles operate with Receptor? Should I send the seller my software libraries to preinstall for me, if it's as tricky as I was told? Thanks for getting me to understand this cool piece of hardware?
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi Mica,
I can't speak for all of these, but I wanted to pass on my experiences with Prominy.
First: SC Electric Guitar is a Kontakt Player VSTi (primarily, not a Kontakt library). The most current Receptor OS does not do direct install of Kontakt Player / libs "yet". Muse has been assuring us that this will come next in an update with Direct Install.
Second: I have tried using Prominy LPC on Receptor. This is Prominy's first release, which was released as a Kontakt Library. The "normal" multi's will not load. Typically, Kontakt will either give-up half-way during the load, or cause a (Receptor) system crash. The problem is that the pre-load for these instruments take up far too much RAM, reaching Receptor's limit. I have loaded the "Lite" versions of LPC, and these will load completely. I wouldn't say that the playing experience is glitch-free, but I was able to get somewhere.
Hope this helps. Regards,
Kevin L
I can't speak for all of these, but I wanted to pass on my experiences with Prominy.
First: SC Electric Guitar is a Kontakt Player VSTi (primarily, not a Kontakt library). The most current Receptor OS does not do direct install of Kontakt Player / libs "yet". Muse has been assuring us that this will come next in an update with Direct Install.
Second: I have tried using Prominy LPC on Receptor. This is Prominy's first release, which was released as a Kontakt Library. The "normal" multi's will not load. Typically, Kontakt will either give-up half-way during the load, or cause a (Receptor) system crash. The problem is that the pre-load for these instruments take up far too much RAM, reaching Receptor's limit. I have loaded the "Lite" versions of LPC, and these will load completely. I wouldn't say that the playing experience is glitch-free, but I was able to get somewhere.
Hope this helps. Regards,
Kevin L
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- KVRian
- 524 posts since 25 Aug, 2005
JABB has its own player, do the Muse install from Plugorama, and it works perfectly. Don't know the others.
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- KVRist
- 413 posts since 5 Dec, 2005
Isn't Pettinsound Warm Jazz a sample library? I love the sound of it and have just downloaded the free demo. Basically your fine with any sample libraries not using a built in Kontakt player unless supported by Plugorama.
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
I have Pettingrew Direct Guitar - but I haven't tried it on Receptor just yet. It is not crazy huge sample size (like Prominy). It does use Kontakt scripting, so it probably needs one of the newer versions of Kontakt installed.
Other than this, it should just load and work fine on Receptor.
Regards,
Kevin L
Other than this, it should just load and work fine on Receptor.
Regards,
Kevin L
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- KVRist
- 413 posts since 5 Dec, 2005
Sorry, it was the Direct Guitar demo I have tried and works fine on Kontakt 2.2 on Receptor, it loads up as a multi patch, I presume its the same for WarmGuitar, just wondering if i should bite the bullet and get it.
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- KVRist
- 413 posts since 5 Dec, 2005
Apparently it is up to 2.4 on the NI website, could'nt find the 2.3 update. Any need for us to update Kontakt 2 upto this? Im not interested in Kontakt 3 at the moment as i find Kontakt 2 does everything I want.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 10 posts since 3 Oct, 2008 from South Florifa
Since I use so many Kontakt samples, The software libraries I bought automatically install Kontakt 2, even though I have Kontakt 3 in its most recent Operating System update. Should I delete the Kontakt 2 players and let Kontakt 3 handle all the samples? Or is there any value of having both samplers installed? I much prefer Kontakt 3 since it has so much more control and an updated interface, so I don't know if I would ever benefit in running any of my Kontakt formatted instruments in OS 2 rather than OS 3?
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- KVRer
- 23 posts since 4 Jan, 2006 from Boston, MA
You can load all of your sample libraries in Kontakt 3 {regardless of the Kontakt 2 player} as long as the libraries were originally installed and authorized on the computer you're using.micaofboca wrote:Since I use so many Kontakt samples, The software libraries I bought automatically install Kontakt 2, even though I have Kontakt 3 in its most recent Operating System update. Should I delete the Kontakt 2 players and let Kontakt 3 handle all the samples? Or is there any value of having both samplers installed? I much prefer Kontakt 3 since it has so much more control and an updated interface, so I don't know if I would ever benefit in running any of my Kontakt formatted instruments in OS 2 rather than OS 3?
We're ALL hoping that Muse gets on the case with the ever-growing number of libraries that use the Kontakt 2 player as a front end: Prominy SC, Vir 2 Basis, Galaxy II, Symphobia, Chris Hein Guitars, etc.