Being new to the platform, that certainly is over my head for now, but it will be an interesting project down the road. The Kontakt program does allow a person to create his or her instruments, for those with the determination to do so. The accompanying demo includes some sample sounds that come with Kontakt, as well as a few from Dystopian Guitars. Moreover, Kontakt comes with its own sample library and has become the industry standard with the biggest selection of samples from Native Instruments and other sample designers – in other words, if you want variety in choosing your samples, you’re going to have the largest selection with Kontakt versus any other platform. Kontakt was required to host Dystopian Guitars, and both worked seamlessly together – no locking up, no pausing or glitches. Originally, I investigated the Kontakt platform as I wanted to work with a sampler program called Dystopian Guitars, a third-party product developed by PulseSetter Sounds (I did a review with demos on this, as well).

Consequently, you can take a synth, piano or guitar and have it sound like something completely different.

For those unaware of what a sample is, the most obvious would be traditional instruments, such as piano, bass, orchestra strings, etc., all of which sounds are controlled by a ‘controller,’ e.g., piano keyboard or MIDI guitar, for instance. Similarly, Native Instruments developed Kontakt in order to run in-house, licensed and third-party samplers. In order to best use the software a platform had to be developed, similar to requiring a Mac or Windows OS in order to run a word processor, for example. Native Instruments has been around for some time, leading the music software industry with sample profiles and effects.

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