What is the difference between Intakt, Kontakt, ect

[Lunahorum]

I was reading on one of those software sites and I was wondering what the difference was between these names. There's both intakt storm drum and kontakt stormdrum.

[tgfoo]

First, just to correct you, Stormdrum comes with an Intakt player and a Kompakt player, not a Kontakt player. Now, Intakt plays audio loops, and Kompakt plays the single hit samples. Kontakt (there full sampler) can open both the Kompakt and the Intakt patches. This is especially useful because both Intakt and Kompakt have been discontinued by NI.

[dannthr]

That's about the gist of it, however to clarify:

Kompakt plays instruments, Intakt plays rhythm loops.

I wanted to say it like that because Kompakt does play loops--but they're usually programmed sustain loops associated with legato samples, etc. They're not rhythm loops.

[Lunahorum]

Ok cool. So intakt is kind of useless while kompakt is the one to get?

[dannthr]

Well, Kompakt can't play Intakt-rhythm loops and does not have the rhythm loop management features that Intakt has.

The one to get is Kontakt 2 (or possibly Kontakt 3). Kompakt and Intakt aren't "gettable" because they come bundled with NI-licensed virtual instruments. You don't have to worry about "getting" Kompakt or Intakt.

Kontakt can play all Kompakt and Intakt bundled virtual instruments and any other Native Instruments native samples as well as a multitude of others.