NI Kontakt4 and sib6.1 combination. Is this working or not?
Can Kontakt4 read also EWQLSO play edition or VSL soundsets? Or is it better to buy Kontakt 3.5 in the future?
Any discussion about this subject is welcome.
Sibelius does not recognise Kontakt 4 as a special Kontakt-type device and so it cannot load sounds automatically into that sample player at the moment. We are talking to NI to find out why that is.
If automatic sound loading is an important feature for you (i.e. you want to use a library for which there is a Sibelius sound set) then you should stick with Kontakt 3.5 or earlier.
Kontakt 4 cannot load EWQLSO Play instruments - they have their own interface / player / sampler, Play. Play works fine in Sibelius 6, by the way.
Even though intsruments do not load automatically, you can use Kontakt 4 and use manual soundsets. Kontakt 4 does have a lot of great sounding new instruments (choirs, solo instruments from VSL, and so on). I am not sure whether Native Instruments still sell Kontakt 3.5 (not on their website) though with Kontakt 4 you might be able to 'downgrade' for free. You might want to check with NI on that.
I can't say that I'm optimistic about making Kontakt 4 load sounds automatically, but it's something we're talking to NI about. There's no indication at this stage what the resolution will be.
Yes! EWQLSO works fine in Sibelius6. And anyway Sibelius is a notation not sequencing software. Just my opinion is that Kontakt and Sibelius are really good combination. Hope u make co-operation in the future also!
Thank you Daniel.
And thank u also Peter. I will try the Kontakt 4 . I just want to use something (not so huge library like EWplatinum)but multifaceted and kompakt in my lap top
We have now figured out what the problem is, which is that NI have changed the way that Kontakt identifies itself. We will need to patch Sibelius to make it possible to load sounds automatically in Kontakt 4. Unfortunately at the moment I cannot provide any specific information about when such a patch might be available.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as the sound set itself: Sibelius needs to be changed to be able to recognise the fact that Kontakt 4 is a Kontakt-type device.
After installing Kontakt 4 on my Mac, I did not delete Kontakt 3.5, hoping to be able to use K3.5 for ordinary tasks, and K4 when the new sounds were needed.
It seems, however, that K3.5 is no longer listed among the devices I can select when creating a new Playback Configuration. I can only select K4 or Kontakt Player. So, it seems they are mutually exclusive.
Luckily, libraries based on earlier versions of Kontakt can be used, since Kontakt Player 2 is still available.
At this point, I wonder if K3.5 can simply be removed from the disk, to save space. I'll ask in the Kontakt forum.
Looking inside the /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components/NativeInstruments/ folder, I actually can't see anything related to Kontakt 3. Nor I find it inside any of the backups. As a consequence, Kontakt 3 does not even appear in Logic 8. Something might have been happened before the earliest preserved backup.
I don't know if Kontakt libraries can be player by KP2; however, KP2 can play libraries like GPO, JABB and Virtual Drumline, that I used to play with Kontakt 3.5 and not the player.
At this point, I wonder if I should wait the release of a patch of Sibelius fully recognizing K4, and in the meantime only use Sibelius Sounds or the GPO under KP2, or reinstall K3.5 for using the VSL.
Incidentally, I'm surprised to discover that the orchestral sounds in Sibelius Sounds seem to perform better than GPO; maybe there is some additional optimization done in Sibelius Software.
> Kontakt Player 2 was written by NI for Sibelius. It was Kontakt 2's little brother, if you like.
Kontakt Player 2 is not Sibelius specific at all, although the Essentials that run in it are.
One can install KP2 along with Sibelius and then use that same KP2 plugin in Sibelius or any other host, to play any library coded for KP2. I've done it, many times (without installing the KP2 plug with the other libraries).
It's the Sib Essentials library that is specially coded to run only in Sibelius, not the plugin itself.
