KVR Audio

menthol · Post by **menthol** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:11 pm

I want it ALL. Gimme, gimme, gimme ...

ckam03 · Post by **ckam03** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:17 pm

Anyone know if hidpi support was added? I didn't see anything on the site.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:18 pm

Nope.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:21 pm

Anyone a idea whether or not the A-series keyboards have Aftertouch? I doubt it, because it is not mentioned anywhere, but, would be nice to have confirmation.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:23 pm

EvilDragon wrote:Oh and for all of you clamoring about K6 GUI. The team is painfully aware of that. It is also painfully not easy to modernize it from 15+ years old codebase with oftentimes strange dependencies. It will happen eventually, and likely in stages rather than all-at-once overhaul, but not at K6.0.

I saw no mention to new filters, nor to real analog style emulation oscillators. What about that?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:30 pm

K5 had a bunch of new filters which are great and a huge improvement over old filters that were there. No need to change things in this case IMHO. I don't think analog emulation is the focus of Kontakt, so don't hold your breath for that. Monark is more than enough

andrew71 · Post by **andrew71** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:41 pm

I think it's a shame that if you pre-ordered a digital version you couldn't get access to the existing products now, with Kontakt 6 becoming available 1st October.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:48 pm

That's because Kontakt 6 is still in beta, a bit.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:50 pm

EvilDragon wrote:Oh and for all of you clamoring about K6 GUI. The team is painfully aware of that. It is also painfully not easy to modernize it from 15+ years old codebase with oftentimes strange dependencies. It will happen eventually, and likely in stages rather than all-at-once overhaul, but not at K6.0.

So instead of tackling something useful we get offered more 'piano' and 'analog synth' sample libraries and they call that a major version update! It just seems to be more of the same unwanted (to me) filler so they can say look how many gigs/instruments/stuff you get....

Does anyone think Kontakt 6 looks like a real 'major' update...am I missinhg soemthing, there have been better point updates in the V5 life cycle I think!

TaylorSN · Post by **TaylorSN** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:56 pm

Do they charge you instantly on preorder?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:00 pm

SLiC wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:Oh and for all of you clamoring about K6 GUI. The team is painfully aware of that. It is also painfully not easy to modernize it from 15+ years old codebase with oftentimes strange dependencies. It will happen eventually, and likely in stages rather than all-at-once overhaul, but not at K6.0.
So instead of tackling something useful

"tackling something useful" would result in Kontakt 6 not being available for a lot longer, which wouldn't coincide with Komplete 12 release, etc. You get the drift.

And to reiterate once more. Touching the GUI in Kontakt involves a lot of heavy code refactoring in a very old codebase, with lots of unintended sideeffects just waiting to pop out at ya. This needs to be done meticulously and extensively tested. It will happen eventually as NI is totally aware of it, and they can't afford to mess it up, as it can totally ruin the program if core parts of it break along the way (like DFD, RAM efficiency, whatever). And they don't want to f**k it up.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:42 pm

EvilDragon wrote:K5 had a bunch of new filters which are great and a huge improvement over old filters that were there. No need to change things in this case IMHO. I don't think analog emulation is the focus of Kontakt, so don't hold your breath for that. Monark is more than enough

But they have wavetable now, so, at least they must have some sort of additive engine built in, as well as analysis and resynthesis, right?

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:49 pm

And still no sign of Guitar Rig 6.

Since Komplete 12 now has two big brothers, shouldn’t it be called Inkomplete 12?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:53 pm

fmr wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:K5 had a bunch of new filters which are great and a huge improvement over old filters that were there. No need to change things in this case IMHO. I don't think analog emulation is the focus of Kontakt, so don't hold your breath for that. Monark is more than enough
But they have wavetable now, so, at least they must have some sort of additive engine built in, as well as analysis and resynthesis, right?

Nope, wavetables don't necessarily imply additive or resynthesis. It's basically the oscillator from Massive in which you can put your own custom wavetables (2048 samples per wave cycle).

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:57 pm

I do not understand what they have been doin all this time with kontakt 6. Other than some sample libraries (who cares) and massive’s oscillator (who cares, we have massive already), I don’t understand what they have even changed about kontakt.

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