This is a bad product.
Maybe it was a good (and better than all of it's competition) sometimes in the past, but not now. If you are about to purchase it, here's what to expect.
1. It's kind of heavy on resources. Some libraries can make my 2018 Hexacore Core i5 chug to the point of complete impossibility to work (and that's for 1 instance).
2. Expect locate samples manually all the time, because at least for 5th of libraries paths to samples won't work for some reason.
3. Expect to pay $100 on average per library.
4. Expect buyer's remorse. It's a bad value for the 50% Sale price, and terrible value for the fill price.
5. Expect to not being able to write your instrument as a markup file, and fiddling with the UI instead.
6. Expect to receive samples packed in a proprietary encrypted .ncw pseudo-format often with inability to unpack anything.
Kontakt is bad. And it's status quo is to blame.
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Gentlemen-Question?-Certain wav files when played back sound jittery almost breaking up-Can any one explain-Regards-Dizzyfingers.
Dear dizzyfingers, it can be the file how it's designed (no bread and butter here, all patches are made with several layers to have a complex movement) or the way you play it back in Kontakt 5, the higher the key you play the more it sounds jittery... try to start from C3, and follow the note "try lower keys" for more subtle and soft soundscapes. Cheers.
Major issue with 5.6.5 update, Kontakt does not display all sample libs and user instruments (about 25% of my libs).
Hello! Just another kindly request to compile for Linux. Thanks.
AngelShark's "review" is not a review – just a whining rant against NI in general. Kontakt is the standard, and for good reasons.
Oh, come on. It's no less of a review because one NI fanboy doesn't agree with it. You're entitled to your opinion of Kontakt, just as I'm entitled to mine (as a dissatisfied paying customer). Prospective buyers of Kontakt should be made aware of the drawbacks as well as the benefits. However, feel free to refute anything within my review that you feel is factually incorrect. If you look again, you'll notice I did essentially say Kontakt is the standard, but if NI aren't prepared to bring it into the current decade, the industry should move on. Just because something has always been done a certain way, doesn't mean that should be the case in the future.
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