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Native Instruments is offering a free Kontakt 3.5 and Kore player along with free 50 instument sound libraries!Looks like a good offer, but a big download.Thought I'd pass it along.What?! What's the catch?(Thanks for the tip though! )Edit: downloading it now at 1.4MB/s so big download is no problem. Still, some of the info was in German so I didn't quite get it. Are we looking at a free version of Kontakt player or is there some showstopper I'm missing here?Edit 2: Wow, from what I can tell there are no limitations, this is a fully working multi-out version. And yes I realize this is Kontakt.player., not Kontakt the sampler but nontheless, this is an awesome free release.
I have lots of samples in kontakt format that I've been forced to convert to soundfonts, but now it seems I can use them the way they're meant to sound.It's late here though so I might have missed something important. It just seemed a bit too good to be true (like for example if you have Kontakt 3 Player why would you want Kore Player?). Thanks jimst57, but it doesn't seem to be really a free Kontakt Player.It seems to be the new player, with 500Mo sounds (free), that will play the 'powered by Kontakt' librairies, and will be in demo mode on others (30mn time out, no rendering).So, if you own some 'Kontakt powered librairies' it's an update to the included Kontakt player, and if you don't it's the new demo that includes some free sounds, ala YellowTools.Did i get that right?
They're pretty confusing.Oh, and it's a FREE downloadbah, shortcircuit is good enough for what i do anyway. I am downloading it (not such a 'big' download by the way? For PC it says 276Mb. )But yes, I am afraid it is really a demo mode, I was hoping I could use some sounds I bought in.nki format. But it seems then it will be in demo mode.I still don't understand why there is no way to buy the Kontakt player for a cheap price, with no sounds.
This really encourages pirating!!I don't care about their sounds, but I have heard that the Player is very good, and I am interested in independant sound libraries such asthe ones by AcousticSamples.So now I use the free sfz player. But the guy has written some scripts to add realism, and Kontakt is needed for that. Hmm.by the way, they are good at marketing.The demo has been there since a while (for v3.0 = ) and now they call it 'free version', but the link is clearly to the Kontakt 3 demo version.Not the same thing at all!EDIT: ok now I understand. I just read this:I think it's a major incentive for smaller devs to licence aKontakt player engine for their libraries - by doing this,they're playing with the big boys in terms of market.So if I understand well, it is up to the library to be 'registered'.
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If it is the case, then it will play ok. But most of the small libraries not sold by big actors are not registered. As far as I understand it, NI, known for notoriously bad customer support for many years, are trying to be more userfriendly now. The 399E and 399$ deal for 'Komplete5' was surely a great thing (apart from that we don't know if sales dropped as much as it did for other software companies, and they needed the money - still, incredible value for 399$!).The Kontakt player seems to be thought a bit like the kore player was. You get some sounds for free, and after that they hope you'll buy other libraries designed for it, like the 'maschine drum selection'. So some people who don't want to buy, say, Maschine, can get drum sounds from that too.I think it's a nice idea.
Like people who didn't want to buy Reaktor5 could buy some Reaktor-sounds for their free kore player. Nice.And for those who don't want to, it's like independence free in a way - not too bad, is it? Here is what Tobias@NI posted at KVR:'Hi all,I have to agree that the info on our Kontakt Player page regarding third-party libraries was unclear and potentially misleading, sorry about that! We have just changed the wording to make the whole thing more clear.So yes, the Kontakt Player offers full-featured playback only for Kontakt Player libraries and for the new 'Kontakt-Powered' instruments, while plain Kontakt libraries only run in a 30 minute demo session. Using these libraries fully is still reserved to the full Kontakt 3 version.We cannot really make Kontakt Player a full-on player for any Kontakt-format library, because that would defeat the whole licensing model that we offer to instrument developers. But I think the Kontakt Player still very much deserves to be called a 'free' instrument because it has a pretty nice free 600 MB library to start out with.Sorry again for any confusion caused!Best,Tobias-Native Instruments, Berlin'.
Well, after my initial disappointment I gotta say that even if I never end up buying any Kontakt Player libraries, the download was still worth it. It comes with an absolutely gorgeous set of uilleann pipes that will without a doubt come in handy.Still bums me out that you can't play user-made stuff in it though. I'm sure there's a lot of hobbyists who create and share their Kontakt instruments for free, and expecting them all to license the player strikes me as very unrealistic. This mad obsession with closed sample formats and BIG NAME END-ALL LIBRARIES(TM) gives me a bad taste in my mouth though. It seems like it's getting harder and harder to find libraries that come in a multitude of formats these days, making it impossble to mix and match stuff in a seamless manner. That's strange.
I have Kore Player and NI service center installed as well. I was never prompted to activate anything when I installed Kontakt 3 player.AFAIK, the player doesn't need to be activated.
But the download link letter from NI said that the Factory Selection set does. It's just not accepting the.naf file created by going through the activation process. So when I load the FS sounds into the player, they're in demo mode, whereas if I load something from the Kontakt 2 library, or from Garritan's GPO or JABB, it loads normally.Plus, NI says they will not provide tech support for free products. Yes, and this encourages pirating.Recently I found a free 'refill'. Unfortunately the guy did not provide any other format. So I had to first1) find an illegal copy of reason2) find an illegal copy of a program allowing refills to be exported as waves.that is not a had to situation.that is a chose to situation. You have to eat and breath.
And unless there's a gun to your head connected to some freakishly unreasonable hacker you need not pirate any software. Unless you choose to.I'm just sayin' though. I have the activation problem as well.
After 30mins the Kontakt Selection (reportedly free download) just ends the Demo period and I can't use it anymore.I'm quite dissapointed - Kore things wanted activation, it was annoying, but it worked in the end. I'm stuck, I thought I understand computers and software, but there is always something trying to convince me: 'No, man, you're dumb!' Maybe I missed something really easy, but it doesn't make it any better experience for a user. Anyone went over this? I have the activation problem as well. After 30mins the Kontakt Selection (reportedly free download) just ends the Demo period and I can't use it anymore.I'm quite dissapointed - Kore things wanted activation, it was annoying, but it worked in the end.
I'm stuck, I thought I understand computers and software, but there is always something trying to convince me: 'No, man, you're dumb!' Maybe I missed something really easy, but it doesn't make it any better experience for a user. Anyone went over this?That is what's keeping me off many times from these 'free' players many companies are offering now. Every major company want to instal some strange 'activation software' on my machine, where I don't know what it is doing to my system - and often it is not even working.If they absolutely want my email adress, why they can't just do it by sending a serial number to it for activate the software??NI's software is a special mess - spreading samples, presets and others things over my whole HD. I have the activation problem as well. After 30mins the Kontakt Selection (reportedly free download) just ends the Demo period and I can't use it anymore.I'm quite dissapointed -Perhaps NI's activation process was temporarily down, overloaded or buggy or something.
I tried activating the Factory Selection again after a couple of days and it worked fine. The FS sounds are liberated now.As far as I can tell, the free K3 Player is like a demo, insofar as it is extremely limited in terms of what it will load in non-demo mode.
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But it will play.nkis that have been purchased and activated in a non crippled fashion, so you can use the free Factory Selection (some of which are quite good), and of course you can purchase other compatible libraries for it.Limited, yes, but on the whole not a bad deal for 0$. Perhaps NI's activation process was temporarily down, overloaded or buggy or something. I tried activating the Factory Selection again after a couple of days and it worked fine. The FS sounds are liberated now.As far as I can tell, the free K3 Player is like a demo, insofar as it is extremely limited in terms of what it will load in non-demo mode. But it will play.nkis that have been purchased and activated in a non crippled fashion, so you can use the free Factory Selection (some of which are quite good), and of course you can purchase other compatible libraries for it.Limited, yes, but on the whole not a bad deal for 0$.I don't complain on the limited offer for $0:-) - it sounded great for those 30 mins. I'll try to reinstall FS again today, maybe it was only this problem. I really believe it is only this problem.
You could try reinstalling FS, but perhaps if you just re-initiate NI's challenge/response process, that will be enough. Make sure you have the latest version of their 'Service Center'. Good luck!Ok, now I understand it this way - I have the library in demo mode - not activated. In Service Center (btw, updated by itself, no problem here) I can't activate Kontakt 3 (with some serial) nor I can activate FS (no serial there) because the Activate button is disabled. I thought it's because of FS without serial - that's why I tried it with FS uninstalled - didn't help, stil disabled button.After 30 minutes it times out, I can reload the player though (or Kontakt 3 as there is no 'player' as a separate program) and it works 30 more minutes.
I've read through their Getting Started and I'm really confused what they meant with free this and free that and I'd swear there was something 'no activation needed' in newsletter (but I deleted the mail days ago:-)).Basses, organs, they sound SO cool. I'd really love to make it all work. Now I try it in Reaper as a VSTi, but I guess it times out soon again.;-) I contacted NI, they confirmed the ticket for me, but. Now I see in their 'download link' e-mail the following: 'Please note that we don't offer technical support for free products.'
So I guess I'll not find any help there.EDIT:I GOT IT. I'm blind really. The trick is that the Kontakt player link in mail does NOT contain serial (doesn't need it, it is automagically there).
But the Kontakt FS has the serial in the mail and I simply overlooked it - as both mails were so similar. I'm sorry for bothering. The Player itself does not need Authorising- installing the Player also installs some instruments (Uillean harp, Harpsichord, 808 Kit.)- using these Instruments will time-out after 30 minutes- the Factory Selection does need authorisation - there should be a serial number in the email from NI, entitled 'NI Factory Selection Library'.- the Factory Selelction, once authorised, will not time out.Exactly, I'm now up and running.:-) I find it funny that those few sounds coming with Kontakt Player itself are demo. But the FS rules. At last some basses that sound usable.After this and my previous Kore Player experience it's quite likely I'd buy NI product in the future if the music brings me just a little money.
Or if I have some more to spare and take the music more seriously. Exactly, I'm now up and running.:-) I find it funny that those few sounds coming with Kontakt Player itself are demo. But the FS rules. At last some basses that sound usable.Glad you're up and running. A lot of people complain about NI, but they make good stuff.
I couldn't live without the full Kontakt 2, and will probably upgrade to 3 one of these days.The free K3 player and the FS sounds are a relatively minor, but very welcome addition to the DAW arsenal. If they still have the free Kore player going on, that's definitely worth getting, too.