it clearly has issues with multi-dimensional giga samples - I can show you direct evidence. Now, I expect that this is simply a matter of flipping a switch somewhere and it should work perfectly.
However, I have sent three emails - one to tech support and 2 to bernard directly - and none of them have been answered. (I did get an incident report stating that my email had been received. A month ago.) I sent them over the past several weeks. Nor have there been any functionally helpful replies on this forum, northernsounds, or kvr-vst.
So, currently, I'm feeling $150 lighter, abandoned, and no further along towards VSL being converted to Kontact.
Garth at Translator has been very helpful. Translator probably translated ~80% of VSL and KH Solo Strings. He helped me out, called me back directly the same day I filed an issue on the translator board, and was generally extremely gracious and cool about the whole thing. I bought CDXtract because it seemed more focused and when I was hoping for a Translator release to fix the VSL inconsistencies, the Translator release fixed some obscure emu file format and not my Kontact issue. So, I was hoping that I was moving to a more directed/dedicated approach. However, there has been a distainct lack of dedication from CDXtract folks, at least with respect to supporting a registered customer.
To date, my giga->Kontact oddessy has been an excercise in moderate success, semi-constant frustration, multiple programs that mostly do the right thing most of the time, and a lot of time spent hacking my system and not a lot of time spent writing music. I am thinking of scrapping Kontact altogether and moving to giga studio if only because the lost time multiplied by my per hour rate has more than totalled the cost of a dedicated giga system. It shouldn't work this way - the tools exist to make this work. But you still find yourself caught in the headlights of reality every time you try and get something done.
You want some advice? Keep it simple. I have been too "clever" (read stupid) throughout this process - using giga samples with Kontact, running it all on one machine, etc. If you want to be a hacker, be clever. If you want to be a musician with a reasonable amount of uptime, don't try and play the system - do the generic thing that everyone is testing and building and running every day. Having a unique problem is only interesting in research - in practice it's a pain in the *** because the majority get their problems (if they have any) solved first and you come in second place.
now that I've had my rant, do a search for King Idiot's posts regarding Kontact. A lot of people have had good luck with it - apparently not me, however.
-denny-