Originally Posted By: bobbyt9999


Thanks so much for this! I'm going to have a very close look. I'm still looking at how to use it with Sonar Platinum. The "free Kontakt Player" needed to use it is confusing me. I'm going to do more research to make sure I understand it before buying. But a hundred bucks is a lot better than eight hundred bucks considering that Guitar Strummed is what I'm looking for more than anything else in Kontakt Komplete. I'll keep you posted.


I hope this helps. Kontakt Player has the same engine as the full version of Kontakt. The difference is that the Player is for only playing the patches while the full version Kontakt allows you to get into the guts of the patches so you can change some of its parameters and effects. Guitar sessions 2 will run on the free Player.

If you get Kontakt Player be sure to carefully read the read the system requirements of any patch that you are thinking about purchasing. Many patches will only run on the full Kontakt, but this will listed under those requirements.

If you are thinking about Kontakt you can buy it separately. If you can wait then I would get the free Player then wait for a sale on Kontakt. Most of the time a sale will get you Kontakt for about half price.

Both version of Kontakt will load as a VSTi in Sonar with no problems. If you know how to load VSTis into Sonar you are all set, if not other Sonar users here can help you. It has been quite awhile since I've used Sonar and I don't want to give you some faulty advice. I have CRS!

If you are also looking for a finger picking program check this out:

https://realitone.com/fingerpick/

This also works on the free Player.

Also you might want to Google/Bing guitar patches for Kontakt and/or free and shareware guitar patches for kontakt. There are a lot of third party patches out there for Kontakt.

Good luck

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