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Can we please do a partnership with Nativite Instruments to give use BIAB owners a discount on Kontak? I'd really like to have some of the sweet instruments to help me write some great songs. Thanls


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While that would be nice..... the instruments in Kontakt won't help you write songs.... that comes from within. I know lots of folks with Kontakt and they don't write much at all.

But I do agree that having a new toy can inspire you to step outside the box...so to speak, and come up with some new things..... like a new song or two.

Just a observation.


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Amen!

Again it's not the tools - it's the craftsman.

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Originally Posted By: Islansoul
Can we please do a partnership with Nativite Instruments to give use BIAB owners a discount on Kontak? I'd really like to have some of the sweet instruments to help me write some great songs. Thanls


Is 50% enough ?

These were responses to your other post:

Non Kontak third party samples
"I got Kontakt for half price, keep a watch there are usually sales around this time."

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"I had a look at my invoice date and it was around Nov 27 when they had the half price sale."

Kontakt 5 50% OFF Nov 24 – Dec 5

Native Instruments Sales 50% OFF Nov 24 – Dec 5

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You're best off to watch for the Black Friday sales like Pipeline was saying. While a partnership would be cool, some Kontakt libraries I've used do not work well with Band-in-a-Box just with the nature of how they are controlled. They would work well with RealBand due to the fact that RealBand is a full MIDI Sequencer as well, though.

I picked up my copy of Kontakt 5 on Black Friday. Great software, I'm currently creating my own retro 80's/90's gaming sample library that will be really neat if you're trying to make music sound like they're from Video Games.

Kontakt is a great sampler.


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"I'm currently creating my own retro 80's/90's gaming sample library..."

That was my first job in the late 70's repairing pinball machines, jukeboxes, early video games then to just later video game machines then that got me into computers, audio gear repair then that got me into recording for musos and websites then Biab/Realband.

You can get all those old game ROMs now and run on MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator), I remember they used to be big logic boards some multi layered that cost $$$ with the same 28 pin JAMMA connector you could change from machine to machine.

Actually I just converted someone's old cathode ray tube arcade machine over to an LCD 600 game MAME.
The last time I was building these machines they had 3 buttons now they gotta have 5.

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