Members mildbill Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=koreplayer&L=1&ftu=11e22341ad82153 Anyone try this out yet? What do you think of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wwwjd Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 sweet! I'm DLing right now.... but it's going awefully sloooow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members C#minor Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 I tried to download it during the week end and it's way too slow for my temper I guess the servers are just swamped. for NI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members llamastorm Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 Hopefully it ends up being less bloated than Kontakt. Kinda doubt it, but we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 A nice selection of very usable stuff, excellent for making music on a shoestring budget, but they should've thrown in a few more presets, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wwwjd Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 they may have the free downloads bandwidth limited. I got mine DL'ed overnight, but haven't installed yet. If there's more than 10 presets, I'm happy. It should just tease you into buying the full product. A buddy at the studio has KOMPLETE KONTACT or both or whatever it is and it has loads of great stuff in it. Like EVERYTHING! A freebie of some of that will be awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 I don't see any way to edit the sounds so this is like NI's answer to Arturia's Analog Factory. It does have some interesting features, though. You get eight knobs that you can map (globally) to MIDI controls and then there's eight "scenes" for each patch that you can either select or morph between using a mouse (reproduces the Kore 2 hardware interface). The bulk of the supplied presets are from Massive, but there's at least a couple from every NI product. You get just enough free patches (55) to tease you into buying some "Soundpack" expansions ($59 each). The synth expansions (Absynth, Reaktor, Massive) give you 200 presets each with 8 variations preprogrammed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ew_ Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 It's basically done as a promo for the other apps. If you're just a preset player who wants some real time control, the player and a couple of the packs should keep you happy. However, the real kahuna's still the Kore/Komplete combo. Add to that the third party plugins of your choice, and you have a nice unified control surface/host/plugin to handle most anything you'd throw at it. Your Kore and Kore player forums moderator,ew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 ew, How come NI dropped the audio interface from Kore2? I'd like to see more controllers with audio interfaces built in, saves on space and cabling spaghetti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted March 11, 2008 Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 Because I think that PCs can only handle a single ASIO device at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted March 11, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 11, 2008 So - how does the player relate to kore itself? I never really got what kore was all about. Is it more than just a way to keep your patches from NI organized? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wwwjd Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 I think it sounds great and has some nice presets. This inspired me to also get the INDEPENDENCE FREE 2.0 player and it's 2GB sound pile. It's pretty cool to. The drums and guitars in both impressed me the most. The plain drums in the KORE sound like perfectly recorded live drums. Some of the best drums I've heard yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LameAim Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 However, the real kahuna's still the Kore/Komplete combo. Add to that the third party plugins of your choice, and you have a nice unified control surface/host/plugin to handle most anything you'd throw at it. Novamusik has the full version of Kore 2 and Komplete 5 for $999. I have been staring at it for a while now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 Komplete bangs so hard for the buck that if you'd put it on a table, it'd drill a hole in no-time. You just have to find a buyer for Battery . (I had to sell Kontakt, Reaktor, Battery and FM8). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StompBoxLover Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 sweet! I'm DLing right now.... but it's going awefully sloooow I get excellent dl speed. ~810kB/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ew_ Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 ew,How come NI dropped the audio interface from Kore2? I'd like to see more controllers with audio interfaces built in, saves on space and cabling spaghetti. There's a couple reasons: 1) Most of the first gen Kore users had audio interfaces already2) Support issues. A USB interface is going to use more CPU for an equivalent latency- period. And, there were a few machines where the original controller was using massive amounts in the background; it was very fussy about motherboard chipsets and how the chipset handled USB streams. I had two systems (3500+ with 2 GB RAM) that were identical except for the chipset used in the motherboard; one used between 0 and 2% when running, and the other used between 4-10%. And, the original Kore came out before the MS dual core patches- with dual core machines, some saw up to 35-40% on one core for the audio driver alone. Mine runs on my current machine at between 3-7% of one core. It's high, but I've got enough headroom on my machine so it doesn't make much difference. ew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ew_ Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 Is it more than just a way to keep your patches from NI organized? It sure is. Think of it as a chainer/editor/librarian with a dedicated control surface that works with almost all of your plugins (there are some exceptions; hence the almost all). ew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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