Originally Posted By: Tiger
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I don't want you to think I ignored you. I heard you and I tried it with the Kontakt 5 player. Having a Kontakt player open on each track is very awkward; the windows won't minimize. I have a relatively new system built by a tech guy, solid-state drives, and loading and unloading instruments to try them out got very slow. It worked, but you had to be patient.


Larry has shown you how to use Kontakt in Mixcraft. That process is the same as in Studio One. The fastest way to load sounds into Kontakt is to have two drives. One drive to hold you programs like your DAW, Kontakt, etc and the other for the presets/sounds.If Kontakt or any other program that loads presets and the presets are on one drive the process can be slowed down. I have my presets on a HD but I'm saving for a SSD. My programs are on a SSD. Also how much ram do you have? Programs like Kontakt can require a lot of ram.

Originally Posted By: Tiger
Instrument quality was very good on what I loaded, but the factory instrument selection is sparse. No piano for instance, no drum kit with brushes, and for drums it looked like you were supposed to split the track, with each drum part on a separate track. At any rate, standard mapping didn't work.


I don't know what comes with the player as far as sounds. I'm sure it is just a sampling of what is available in the full version. You can split the drum track into individual tracks but you will need a Kontakt on each track, so lets just forget about that for now. My full version of Kontakt drums does use the standard GM drum mapping so I would expect the player to have the same.

Originally Posted By: Tiger
Perhaps you can DM me the name of those free quality VSTs that you like. I only mentioned EastWest because you mentioned it and I saw the ad.

I am just moving over a project from BIAB with bass, drums, piano, strings and French Horn. I can use the Chris Hein Session Horns package and substitute something for the French Horns, as I don't have any orchestral stuff. I could use some strings;) if you have any ideas.


Here are some free VSTis. Just google free VSTi to find more"
https://techraver.com/free-drum-vst-plugins/

https://thehomerecordings.com/free-orchestral-vst/

https://soundtips.net/piano-vst/

Note that I do not have any experience with many of these VSTis


Originally Posted By: Tiger
I am also going to look at migrating to Studio One, when I finish this project and have some time to investigate. There are some high-end features in the Pro version that look appealing.

Thanks for your help.

Glenn


Why change DAWs if you are happy with Mixcraft?

Back in my day the only time we started panic buying was when the bartender shouted "last call"!

64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware