Your Top-10 Kontakt library of all time?

[heyzetlok]

I'm just curious and maybe I'll learn about new libraries I haven't heard of.

[mixyguy2]

8Dio Anthology Strings
8Dio Century Brass
Embertone Joshua Bell Violin
Embertone Sensual Saxophone
Hammersmith Piano (free version)
Kontakt Factory Library (free w/Kontakt)
Massive
Norrland Trumpet (free)
Sampletekk Rain Piano (upright)
TAQSIM (free - a nice hodge podge of things)

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[mholloway]

Basically everything by Orange Tree. Also Blakus Cello by Embertone.

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tee hee

What a useful reply. Come up with that all by yourself?

[whyterabbyt]

Anything by Sound Dust or Fairly Confusing (aka SzcZ)

[martinjuenke]

Rhythmic Robot
Hideaway Studio
Sound Dust
Hollow Sun
Frozen Plain

[seangm]

All the Session Guitarist ones

[Stirner]

Ocean Swift - Porphyra
Scarbee Classic EP-88s
Noire
NI - Session Guitarists
NI - Spotlight Collection
Spitfire - Albion Tundra
Frozen Plain - Slow

[funky lime]

as much as i've leaned on Kontakt over the years, i find myself moving away from it gradually in favor of stuff like UVI, Synchron, Sine, and BFD. the stuff in regular use is pretty basic:

flying hand percussion
scarbee vintage keys
noire felt
orange tree evolution flatwound
impact soundworks shreddage fretless
sampletekk TVBO studio grand
embertone woodwinds

fun mentions, loved but used sparingly:
strix emisynth
spitfire albion v tundra
tronsonic stoner planet T
performance samples freebies (solo violin and cello legatos)
hideaway studio string collection 2
niue (pianobook)
dan keen soft string spurs (pianobook)
osterhouse pathfinder violin
and of course, the empty patch awaiting my own samples

[jancivil]

1. Geosonics II - SonicCouture
2. Thrill - Galaxy
3. Threnody Strings - SonicCouture
4. Mysteria - Galaxy
5. Haunted Spaces - SonicCouture
6. Glassworks - SonicCouture
7. Broken Wurli - SonicCouture
8. EP 73 Deconstructed - SonicCouture
9. Pre-bass - Scarbee
10. Cymbology - Soundiron

exactly one of these is at all replaceable by anything else.

chances are quite low I'll be buying more for the platform as Native Access can't finish an installation here (and on many others' system) and it deletes the disk image (which does successfully download 100% of the time here). The culprit is something called aria2(c).

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Citing:

# aria2(c) is shit.png

[jancivil]

(technical term: "is shit".) It's possible, of course, to access the .dmg in the split second before the idiot thing deletes it.

[jdrums]

+1 for SonicCouture, picked up Sun Drums recently and they're pretty natural sounding as far as Kontakt drum libraries go.