Say you want only a bunch of strings, brass, guitars, organs or whatever. You can load all your instruments in Kontakt, save them as new Multis along with their samples and carry along only the sounds you need, without having to hold the entire libraries in your hard drive. I think that I've mentioned already that I actually use this stuff when going live. Ok, I could run any Komplete instrument through Fantom-G's filters and/or effects, but there are lots of software effects and filters already in my DAW as it is right now, so each element in the home studio has its role.Īll commercially available libraries that are based on Native Instruments Kompakt or Kontakt Player can play in Kontakt 3 or Kontakt 4, for instance East West Quantum Leap library series, like the Symphonic Orchestra (Silver, Gold or Platinum) or the Symphonic Choirs and so on. I really can't see any other creative use of such different elements in a home studio. The only way all these interact with each other in my home studio is that the Fantom-G acts as my main USB-MIDI keyboard controller, which controls and triggers each and every VST instrument in my DAW, so all Komplete instruments are controlled from all of my Fantom-G's keyboard and hardware controls. But having a synthesizer/sampler suite like this needs a computer to run it, so the most logical move would be to use them with a DAW sequencer, not a hardware sequencer like the Fantom-G's, in which there are a lot of compromises and shortcomings. The only way to make them really interact with each other is to use Komplete 6 with Fantom-G's sequencer. Now, as to how to use them with Fantom-G. All I use are commercial libraries, plus the factory content. The FM8, Absynth and Reaktor are really killer virtual synths, but I use others to cover my VA needs (mainly Arturia's stuff and Sylenth1).Ĭoncerning your question about free stuff for Kontakt, I'm not aware of any free (meaning legally free) samples and/or libraries for it. I don't use the rest of the synths so often. What I use most is the sampler (Kontakt 4) and the drum machine (Battery 3).

I use some of Komplete's applications in my home studio, but I got version 6, not 5.

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