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  • VSL Special Edition and Kontakt 3 bundled orchestra

    I'm interested in perhaps getting the Vienna Symphonic Library special edition. Someone pointed out that Kontakt 3 bundles this. I listened to the demo on the NI site, and wasn't as impressed when compared to the demos over here, which sound fantastic. Seems like some articulations and maybe some instruments are missing from Kontakt. Or perhaps the NI demo is just not as skillfully put together. Can someone help me understand how these two packages differ?


  • welcome treppenwitz,

    you can't directly compare the Sample Library coming with Kontakt to the Vienna Instruments Special Edition ... the Kontakt Library contains programs taken out of the Horizon Series Opus products and has ~7.5 GB and 10.000 samples in 16bit., whereas the Vienna Instruments Special Edition has ~ 80 GB and 75.000 samples in 24bit.

    also the amount of instruments differs - AFAIK the kontakt demo library does not contain eg. solo and chamber strings ... compare by yourself http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=k3librarylist vs. http://vsl.co.at/en/211/442/484/485/684/409.htm

    christian


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  • Treppenwit I'm owner of Kontakt 2 which is delivered with almost the same VSL package as K3... When VSL launched the SE bundle I bought it and let me say that ITS A PURE DREAM. Sound quality and usability are both outstanding. There is no comparison with any other tool or sound bundle... So, I'm not using VSL Kontakt package any more for orchestral purpose... More I'll soon buy SE + package... SE and SE+ is simply THE BEST and THE EASIEST... Hope to help Alain LeBlond Composer born in 1957