What is your top 5 Kontakt Sample Library?

[shadoe42]

Most often I find myself reaching for the Hollow Sun Music Lab Machines(I consider them a package )
StormDrum
Several from SynthMagic

after that it becomes to many to pick

[b7uzer]

1. Orange Tree Samples: cherry electric bass, evolution strawberry, evolution acoustic, mesawinds (actually that makes 4 already)
2. Project Sam: Orchestral Essentials
3. Cinematic Strings
4. NI: Scarbee Pre-bass
5. NI: Session Strings

[iain_morland]

Precision Sound - Indian Harmonium (Many other great sets)

Thanks for the compliment!

Did you get the free V2 update for the Harmonium, with the scripted interface for Kontakt 3+?

If not send me a PM.

Thanks again!

[hollowsun]

Most often I find myself reaching for the Hollow Sun Music Lab Machines

Yes ... but you are certifiably bonkers! And I mean that as a compliment!

Thanks for your Cathotron demo, BTW - most good.

Cheers,


Stephen

[Baard]

Theese libs is heavily used in my current (folk/prog) project:

1 - Presicionsound Langegard
2 - Presicionsound Hedberg Travel Organ
3 - Impact Soundworks Shreddage Bass Picked Edition
4 - Kirk Hunter Solo Strings 2
5 - NI Abbey Road 70's Drummer

[jancivil]

these are the most used so they must be the top:

Scarbee Pre-Bass, Scarbee J-Bass;
Warp IV Legendary Trombone, Screaming Trumpet Pro, Jazz Flute.

[iain_morland]

I feel it's only fair to make two lists - one of things I've worked on, and another of ones I've bought and used as a musician.

Of the ones I've worked on, my favourites include (in no particular order!):

Impact Soundworks Resonance (beautiful mallet instruments made from all kinds of unusual natural materials)

Stretch That Note Pulse (one of the few Kontakt instruments that sounds and behaves like a synth instead of a sampler)

Precisionsound Tranzitone (a hybrid between a string machine, transistor organ, and virtual analogue synth - really fun to program)

Other libraries that I've bought and enjoyed playing include:

Soniccouture Guzheng

Scarbee/NI Pre-Bass

Realsamples Edition Beurmann Grand Piano

[Ben H]

1. Samplemodeling Trumpet and Sax Brothers.
* I don't own the Trombone or Horn/Tuba to comment on these, but the others are all great. But it looks like they are slowly moving away from Kontakt though onto their own SWAM player.

2. Bela D Media Anthology Vol I + II
* Celtic Wind and Spritual Wind are both awesome Kontakt libraries by Tari, but he has moved away from devloping libraries for Kontakt now, and all his new stuff is is in Best Service ENGINE format.

3. Hollowsun Nebulae
* I love the pads in this bank. It's small, but still good.

4. Misc. Kontakt freebies like the Julian Ray Sound Calendar, Herbsonics stuff, and others I've probably forgotten.

5. Misc. other libs that I have converted to Kontakt format.

[GrebsoK]

Evolve mutations 2!!
it's an easy choice for me though, since I just have that one and the elements selection. hehe...
I'm afraid the collection is going to grow though...

[takeabow]

Symphobia
Apocalpyse Percussion Ensemble
Damage
Evolve
Adagio Violins

[Woody Aki]

- any by Synthmagic.
- any by Hollow Sun.
- any by Tronsonic.
- Sampletekk's INIL Choir
- Sampletekk's Black Grand Close

[Shangsean]

1. Damage
2. Morphestra
3. Venus Symphonic Women's Choir
4. Albion
5. Evolve

[foosnark]

If we're doing "any by..." then 8dio / Soundiron (and the old Tonehammer/Gnomehammer stuff).

If I were going to spend more money on gear/samples, I would be more likely to go to them than anyone else.

[BERFAB]

Love the libraries included in Komplete Ultimate.

1) Alicia's Keys is my go-to piano.

2) the Scarbee MK something or other is my go to Rhodes/Wirly thing (replacing the original Mr. Ray which never made the leap to x64). This is perhaps my most used patch, btw. I love the interface--very intelligently laid out, and surprisingly versatile.

3) Studio Drummer. Love this thing. I own a ton of drum libraries, but Studio Drummer is the most realistic sounding to my ear. Always fits in the mix. And crazy midi library to boot. For my money, this gets me to where I want to be creatively faster and easier than BFD2, Geist, EZ, SD, Jamstix, etc. Slate's new drum sampler is the only real competition for my drum tracks, and that's really a whole different flavor anyway.

4) EEG from Orange Tree. IMHO, the most intuitive guitar emulation. The built in FX presets are killer and really designed to inspire. This is making its way into a hefty share of my tracks. The only downside is the inability to see what preset you're using at any given time. The dev says this is a limitation of Kontakt itself, so hopefully an update will fix this soon.

5) Pettinhouse's electric guitar. Really a toss-up between this and EEG. Beautifully sampled, with some very useful performance key switches. Best when used with outboard FX, which I do with Amplitube 3.


Honorable mention:
Evolve 1 & 2. Unique, fun and useful. An awesome combination.

Cheers
-B