For a while it was nearly the only game in town (particularly if you worked with orchestral sample sets). It supplanted Gigastudio, the original king of the soft-samplers.
There was a time when Kontakt was the de facto standard format in which sample libraries were developed. For this Kontakt review, we will mostly be looking at the full version. This works out to about 6GB instead of roughly 55GB with Kontakt Full. You’ll also find that the Player version comes with much less built in content. Many developers do not go through Native Instruments due to the costs involved in obtaining the license, so their libraries will only work in Kontakt Full. However, you can only load licensed libraries and the editing tools are limited to 15 minutes’ use. Note that there are two versions of Kontakt: Kontakt Player and Kontakt Full. It delivers tremendous value for its price, but how much you get out of that depends on your musical goals and willingness to delve into the guts of the sounds you are working with. Kontakt 7 operates as either a standalone or as a plugin within your DAW. In this Kontakt review we’ll be looking at Native Instruments’ robust and versatile soft-sampler.
