What Do You All Think About Kontakt As To Esx24?, Compare soft samplers!! Options

[III777III]

••I like to TIME stretch per sample (like loops)
••I like to change the Pitch of a sample with out changing the time and leignth
••I like to have the best quality possible, accurate playback.
••I would like full automation on all p-rameters of filters etc.
••I would like more formts as possible, CD Xtract does it fo now.
••I would like a simple and easy interface, key zone layout and graphics.
••more instances ofcourse and multi outs.

I have used the esx24 for 2 years now, i created a excellent 12GIG library of sounds i use more then any sample cds i still try to get to improve it.
I have been sampling since PUBLIC ENEMY's Eric Shockly has been tweaking AKAIS S900 mono out samplers in the 80s and i swore by the esx24 and thought its future would intergrate emu and roland de emphesis but still no luck ; / .

Basically i have over 85 songs with esx24 sample instances and trapped if i never got a esx24 like lots of people that have to go threw the KeyCode gestapos in GERMANY.


AND NOW?; i waited for Kotakt mac and emagic moves to there new audio units, i got kontakt Mac finaly and ofcourse its a vst app, what the hell is going on in this biz next NO ONE KNOWS!!!

So what am i going to do next, learn kontakt????, seems like its a great sampler but not easy after getting used to a esx24.

Also i JUST heard the esx32/64 is around the corner in oct.2002 and it has been improved XTREAMLY to justify a KONTAKT corssgrade to this audio unit sampler.

So my question to those SAMPLE GARUS is?
What do you guys think about KONTAKT?,

Is it better off continuing with the esx24/32/64 whatever the next hype is, or is vst a bad investment, and if so please let me know why you think KONTAKT is so important to start loading a library and its chances of been the one and only sampler in the future?

Will KONTAKT support audio units?
Can KOTANKT do the ultimate JOB?

Thanks.

[DANO10]

Hey Levon,

Here's a quote fromthe Native-Instruments site:

Q:When will the MacOS X versions of the NI products be available?
A: Native Instruments is working intensely on making all of our products compatible with the forward-thinking MacOS X operating system, which through its direct implementation audio and MIDI features, Core Audio and Core MIDI, sets new standards for the integration of virtual
instruments. As soon as October 2002 NI will release TRAKTOR DJ Studio 2.0, the first software product for MacOS X.
The compatibility of other products is moving ahead at top speed. On account of the high level of effort required for development, specific statements on the time of arrival for other products cannot be made at this time. Most NI products will be ready during the course of 2003.

Until then NI products work as seamlessly as ever with MacOS 9.2, which is included with all OS X systems or can be obtained for a small handling fee. You can have both OS 9.2 and OS X installed at the same time. However you should not use the Classic mode in OS X, but reboot directly to OS 9.2; music software does not work with Classic mode.
If you would like more information on this topic, please get in touch with our E-mail Info-Service.

As a user of most of their products, I'm OK with their progress on OS X.