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This violin library sounds amazing, and to my ears may be better-sounding for slow expressive styles than HS or LASS. Check out the demos.

http://8dio.com/?btp_product=adagio-violins-vol-1

8Dio is having a 40% off "back to school" sale right now. If I could afford it, I'd buy it without hesitation.

Richard

I don't think the discount applies to adagio. With the power of kontakt scripting, more and more libraries with this type of power will be coming out. Companies like 8dio and audiobro (lass) are small and agile and using kontakt as a platform gives them lots of flexibility.

This is good for us orchestral composers! I'm sure the lass folks have more tricks up their sleeves!

Darn, I misread the sales information. In that case, it's on the pricey side . . . but I still want it!

R

Even more interesting, the samples come custom-watermarked per user; perhaps this will set a trend?

I wonder if this is a subset of NI?

Can someone tell me why there is a free Kontakt player and then another one that costs $399?

To get these new strings you must have or purchase the retail Kontakt.

Seems to me if you have something new and want to take market share you would make it usable on the free version as well.

yes watermarking for sure is the future.

Cinesamples does the same thing. I don't know anyone who cares about this as long as you are buying your own samples.

Kontakt has much more sound sculpting options than Kontakt Player - as well as a pretty large library of sounds (> 40gb I believe). so there's your $399.

libraries that can be used in Kontakt Player are fewer. I am sure the sample library creators have to pay some kind of license to NI to make the libraries available for Kontakt Player, and the libraries need to be registered with the NI Control Center as well. Otherwise the samples run in demo mode and you get 20 minutes to make something before they time out, saving is disabled etc.

Ahh... I did not know that.

Thanks, Andy.