What Does Kontakt Have For Orchestral Composers?

mdiemer

Does anyone know what kind of orchestral instruments you get with full kontakt? I mean woodwinds and brass primarily. I see they have a symphonic percussion library so that looks covered. Since it's currently on sale I am thinking of buying it. I currently use the Kontakt Player and I have Cinematic Strings which use that. I need the other orchestral groups. Flutes, oboes, horns, trombones etc. If I spend 200.00 for Kontakt 6, what is included? I know a bunch of synths are included, but I don't use any synths. I also know there are many third-party libraries that use use the full version of Kontakt. In fact, I think Cinematic Woodwonds and Brass do, whereas the first library Alex Wallbank made, for strings, uses the free player. Then there's Cinewinds, etc. I know I can spend even more money and get great libraries, but do you get anything orchestral with kontakt itself?

Fox

I made a list of every instrument in the factory library.

https://gist.github.com/kyefox/9d2f4c11a820dd5e54e15f75f5989443

The version in the manual isn't very detailed. This is straight from the install folder.

Blindeddie

With Kontakt, you get the Kontakt Factory Library, the reference manual for the library explains all the included instruments.

https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downloads/manuals/Kontakt_Factory_Library_Manual_English.pdf

Depending on the level of sophistication you require would determine if they will work for you!

mdiemer

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/9720#Comment_9720

Thanks, I'll check it out.

mdiemer

Just ordered it. I qualify for a crossgrade because I have Cinematic Strings. And the orchestral library is VSL. This is a steal at these prices.

Fox

I made a list of every instrument in the factory library.

https://gist.github.com/kyefox/9d2f4c11a820dd5e54e15f75f5989443

The version in the manual isn't very detailed. This is straight from the install folder.

mdiemer

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/9761#Comment_9761

Thanks very much! It has everything I need. Looks like a combination of legacy instruments and more recent ones. I'm really looking forward to it!

mdiemer

Update: I purchased Kontakt, and was able to install the Factory Library. It took some doing, involving a manual install from the downloaded iso file, which has to be mounted to un-hide something necessary for install or activation. Then I had to grab the serial number from NA on my Windows drive, and put it in the NA on my Linux drive. That activated it. I then ran the install button again on NA, and it completed in seconds.

Anyway, to my delight, it contains the VSL library, very similar to what I use on Windows, namely the Special Edition. So I now have Vienna sounds on Linux, along with GPO and Cinematic Strings. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is East West. But that may come in time.

Note: this post is a duplicate of another that I just posted in my thread about Cinematic Strings on kontakt in Linux.

Kaiwan_NI

Absolutely love the list @Fox 👏👏