Ah! That's a different matter - that's an upgrade issue.A.M. Gold wrote:Well I am a bit annoyed if i can't do full edits of something that was sold to run on Kontakt 4 if I only own 3.5. I just bought Galaxy Vintage D which runs on K4 and I'm using the free player.
If something is sold in a later, updated version I can't use, I don't buy it. I am still on Mac OS10.5.x so that precludes me from buying anything that requires 10.6.x. I am still on K3.5 so wouldn't buy any lib built in K4 ... because I know it wouldn't work.
In a word, no!A.M. Gold wrote:If I do an edit and then save it can I play that edited instrument in the future without a time limit
I am not going defend NI here (errmmm .. maybe I am... whatever!) because I have no affiliation with them whatsoever (I wish I did - maybe I could get a good deal on having my libraries authorised by them!) but their free player is just that - something to play their libraries and libraries from 3rd-parties who have parted with a goodly sum of money to NI to have their library authorised. Those will work without the time limit restriction ... unless you try to edit them.
And this, to me, is where the confusion lies - the fact that they also use their free player as means to demo the full version of Kontakt.
If I had been on the team discussing the functionality of the free Player, it would have been just that - a player for NI library and authorised 3rd-party libraries. It can't play 3rd-party libraries (like mine and others) which haven't been authorised. End of chat. It would not have any editing to speak of - maybe attack and release and perhaps cutoff. It's a 'PLAYER', not a full blown sampler. If you want more editing, buy the bloody sampler!
I would also have made the Kontakt demo a separate thing altogether where people can load up and play and tweak ANY library but it times out after XX minutes. That's it. End of chat. It's a DEMO. If you like it but are frustrated by the limitations, buy the bloody sampler!
I think everyone would be clear on that.
As it is, what we have is a confusing mess where the 'player' can play authorised libraries without restriction (unless you edit them which goes into 'demo mode' and times out after XX minutes) and you can play unauthorised 3rd-party library but only in the 'demo mode' with the XX minute time limit. NI probably thought this was clever thing ... and maybe it is ... but it's bloody confusing!
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I spend a fair bit of time explaining this to customers who have thought they could run my stuff in the player. They CAN but with the XX minute limit (and I can now see why my friends at Sonic Couture say that their library can't be used - it can but this mess is too damned confusing to explain to everyone).
I can totally understand why NI have done this - if people could use the player without restriction, it would damage sales of their full blown Kontakt - and I am not knocking them for that. But they have made it SO damned confusing for a lot of people, users and developers alike. I don't know when they brought out their player/demo but it was a good while back and people are STILL confused by it!
Cheers,
Steve
