Does anyone use NI Kompakt?

[Meteo Xavier]

Are there any additional instruments or refills or whatever I can get with KOMPAKT? I like what it has, but it has a rather small number of instruments to play with.

[The Vagrance]

Most of what you're going to find is going to do with Kontakt. I have both (they both came with Komplete) and I NEVER use Kompakt

[zircon]

Kompakt is a stripped down Kontakt - it is not even really supported anymore by NI. It has the same import features as Kontakt 1 but editing is not nearly as powerful. Thus, if you have any Kontakt 1-compatible libraries you can load them into your Kompakt. This includes Giga, EXS, NKI, Akai, and a few others, so there are lots of libraries out there you can load.
There is one stipulation: the Kompakt PLAYER that comes with many libraries is NOT capable of loading new sounds. It is locked and closed-format.

While I have Kontakt 2, I still use Kompakt players quite a bit. They are less resource-hungry than K2 and less buggy, imo, so they are still worth using.

[Skrypnyk]

I use Kompakt simply because of the ease of use. Everything is simple simple simple. While zircon is right in that NI isn't going to support kompakt (and intakt) anymore, it is way way less resource hungry.

That one East West demo zircon showed us awhile back, I placed that into the kompakt folder and it works fine (although you had to change something in regedit, which yoozer provided.)

[tgfoo]

I have several libraries that come with a bundled Kompakt Player and I never use them. I prefer loading them into Kontakt 2.

[Souliarc]

I have several libraries that come with a bundled Kompakt Player and I never use them. I prefer loading them into Kontakt 2.

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[Meteo Xavier]

Kompakt is a stripped down Kontakt - it is not even really supported anymore by NI. It has the same import features as Kontakt 1 but editing is not nearly as powerful. Thus, if you have any Kontakt 1-compatible libraries you can load them into your Kompakt. This includes Giga, EXS, NKI, Akai, and a few others, so there are lots of libraries out there you can load.
There is one stipulation: the Kompakt PLAYER that comes with many libraries is NOT capable of loading new sounds. It is locked and closed-format.


Kompakt is the first professional VST I own and I didn't buy it with any other libraries. Got any suggestions for places to find NKIs, Akais, EXS and whatnot - or is there another topic around here that addresses that?

[Darangen]

.nki files are Native Instrument files, things like DFH, Colossus, Adrenaline. Akai is another cd format that many sample cd's use.

www.soundsonline.com is a pretty good way to start your search. Almost all of the stuff on there is usable on Kontakt 2. I'm not sure if it's also usable on Kompakt though.