Meteo Xavier Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vagrance Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypnyk Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 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.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgfoo Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I have several libraries that come with a bundled Kompakt Player and I never use them. I prefer loading them into Kontakt 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souliarc Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I have several libraries that come with a bundled Kompakt Player and I never use them. I prefer loading them into Kontakt 2. __________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darangen Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 .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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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