Kontakt 8 Questions

musicalorgasms
musicalorgasms Member Posts: 9 Newcomer
edited October 2024 in Kontakt

Does Kontakt 8 work with Ableton live 12?

Does Kontakt 8 have good saxophone instruments?
I'm thinking of purchasing the package. Thanks.

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  • Skijumptoes
    Skijumptoes Member Posts: 76 Helper
    edited October 2024

    As part of the factory content, there's these in the Band/Horns section:

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    The 4 in there are pretty good, I'd say on par with what you'd get from a Yamaha Montage/Workstation so quite bread and butter sounds. In each, you get to pick between solo (single note) and multi mode.

    Only the Sax Section has articulations (So you can swap between short/sustain/crescendo/fall). In general, i'd say they're fine for poppy/cover type stuff. If you've used better before you'd probably think they were below average - hard to say as it's so subjective.

    There's plenty of other libraries out there though, for example this is a free one:

    https://youtu.be/bQqbLcGz5pM?t=129

    Kontakt libraries start to shine more as you step into the Komplete selections, but you only really start to get better Saxophone's with the bundles that come with Session Horns Pro to be honest.

  • musicalorgasms
    musicalorgasms Member Posts: 9 Newcomer

    Thank you very much! What are the different articulations available to edit? I'm really interested in bends, scoops, flutters, tonguing, slurs, staccato, crescendo with the saxophone.

  • DunedinDragon
    DunedinDragon Member Posts: 1,000 Guru

    That's more of a Session Horns Pro thing.

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