Kontakt - Vintage Rhythm Section Review:

Big Fish Audio were generous and allowed me to swap "Crossroads Blues" (which does not work with BIAB MIDI Styles) Library for their "Vintage Rhythm Section" Library which does work with BIAB Styles.

After a full day of downloading and installing I was eager to hear the results. I went straight for the main MIDI problem area - Guitars.

There are around six guitars in this library and they are uniformly atrocious. The guitars in Coyote Forte and Timbres of Heaven GM banks are way better and the whole reason I started down this Kontakt route was to get better basic band instruments including guitars.

I tried them in Kontakt and with BIAB MIDI styles and - dreadful. The only passable one was a Martin Acoustic but even that was not usable. I also tried each guitar with all the sound effects provided off and on - another 4 hours work.

So I thought maybe there is still something salvageable from this library - so I tried the Pianos - there is only one and it is OK (not good).

So I then tried Organs and again there are about 4 Hammond Organ instruments - all poor.

I havn't tried the drum kits or basses because frankly most GM banks have reasonable sounding Drums and Basses.

I would give the "Vintage Rhythm Section" by Big Fish Audio a 1 out of 5 and that's only because we are having some nice Spring weather here in Christchurch, New Zealand.


Nigel Spiers
Christchurch, New Zealand
info@nzacoustics.com