KVR Audio

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:59 am

From the sound-on-sound review of kontakt 5, "Although Windows 7 is a quoted requirement, Kontakt has been running on Windows XP (service pack 3) on a 32‑bit machine throughout the course of this review, with no problems at all."-
might give it a go.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:17 am

metamorphosis wrote:From the sound-on-sound review of kontakt 5, "Although Windows 7 is a quoted requirement, Kontakt has been running on Windows XP (service pack 3) on a 32‑bit machine throughout the course of this review, with no problems at all."-
might give it a go.

Indeed... "Xp" is just no longer "supported" by NI.

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EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:33 am

IIRC it was possible to run the installer for Kontakt 5 up till 5.1.0, but with 5.2.0 it's not possible to run it on XP anymore. You would have to use some tricks to make it work on XP.

My suggestion - ditch that bugger and move on to more modern (and better) W7.

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:04 am

Oh shut up Evildragon...

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:59 pm

metamorphosis wrote:From the sound-on-sound review of kontakt 5, "Although Windows 7 is a quoted requirement, Kontakt has been running on Windows XP (service pack 3) on a 32‑bit machine throughout the course of this review, with no problems at all."-
might give it a go.

Exactly. Of course, most software that doesn't support XP will still run on XP(unless it relies on newer technologies like DX10 or 11, etc.). Some installers will refuse to run on an unsupported OS< but I don't know about Kontakt 5 since I upgraded from XP long ago, so I can't test personally.

But I would still try it. You never know, it may run flawlessly. And definitely report back!

Brent

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:04 pm

EvilDragon wrote:IIRC it was possible to run the installer for Kontakt 5 up till 5.1.0, but with 5.2.0 it's not possible to run it on XP anymore. You would have to use some tricks to make it work on XP.

My suggestion - ditch that bugger and move on to more modern (and better) W7.

C'mon, you KNOW that isn't going to happen, lol.

But seriously, I echo that advice. Eventually, you may not have an option. Even many offices are moving to 7 and 8 because lots of industry software is leaving XP behind(it doesn't make sense supporting four versions back of an OS).

Doesn't mean he shouldn't try to get it to work. There may be a workaround where you can somehow extract the installer and do some tweaking, but I wouldn't know where to start there.

Brent

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:30 pm

My spies inform me that ThomasHelzle wrote:I did miss the "profile" entry in the grey menu band (man that site has GUI issues ).

Same here. So now I understand why people care so much about GUIs...

ThomasHelzle · Post by **ThomasHelzle** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:39 pm

Hehehehe - yeah, makes all the difference

Cheers,

Tom

Ligidium · Post by **Ligidium** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:36 pm

Anyone else getting a fairly high CPU usage from this?

redplum · Post by **redplum** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:55 pm

Anyone else getting a fairly high CPU usage from this?

Yes

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:12 pm

Got the download and it installed nicely on my Win7 machine. Win8 gets to wait. The manual read well -- they sound like they know how to record a drum kit. The only disappointment at that stage was the hi-hat (but I'm exceedingly picky... it could have had a couple more degrees of openness, which I'd have swapped for velocity layers, to be honest...) I've yet to audition how they've handled hi-hat muting between degrees of openness, too (with my soundcard now down with my Win8 machine I'm really just watching the level meters... honest!

) I'm also impressed with how much effort they've put into the controls - although I get the feeling NI probably told them they had to include some of Kontakt's effects. I'll probably be running the kit as dry as possible until I get some idea of how it sounds.

CPU? Well, running the "Ballads - Groove Ride Shuffle - 03 6 8 Ballad G.mid" with pretty much everything as loaded (IIRC) used about 40% CPU on my AMD 4core 2.3GHz 4GB machine, which doesn't seem unreasonable. I'll have to see if it's usable in live play, though.

The website looked like Native Instruments' website team had built it, to me...

Xenobioz · Post by **Xenobioz** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:00 pm

Could not install on vista, when i run drummica setup pc it says this product requires at least win 7.

paulbreeze · Post by **paulbreeze** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:18 pm

Please follow my advice with M$'s Application Verifier described ie. here :
http://www.psychomix.org/audio/ni-k9-on-vista-x64

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:40 am

I am really enjoying DrumMic'A!, It sounds good alone and works great with other kits 'layered' up. The built-in KONTAKT processors and effects are really decent (As all KONTAKT 5 users will already know but just mentioning it for none KONTAKT users in case).

This is easily the best quality acoustic drum kit ROMpler around for gratis and quite easily demolishes many of the commercial offerings! If there are folks wondering if KONTAKT is worth it, I can't think of a better reason than this...Pull the trigger!

What a really nice treat to combat this stiflingly hot weather. Will be interesting to see if Sennheiser expand it in future plus other microphone brand competition step up to offer alternatives in order to try outshine one another = More free fine kits for all of us

Cheers and all the best to all as always

Dean

SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:14 am

gamecat666 wrote:sounds too good to be true, there must be a catch!!

either way, downloading.. its one huge freebie!

It's brilliant. It looks like it's a playable catalog of Sennheiser mikes.

Free 8GB drum library from Sennheiser(Kontakt Player compatible)