![]() ![]() ![]() You get all kinds of pianos, drums, horns, synths, organs, etc, etc. Komplete then comes with a ton of other content for Kontakt and other NI programs. All their stuff is competently done and while the factory library isn't the highest quality (it is old) it is well done, diverse, and useful. Kontakt itself includes a pretty competent factory library that spans band (saxes, trumpets, french horns, guitars, etc), orchestral (strings, brass, winds and percussion), choir, world, synths and so on. If you want to go all out, Kontakt/Komplete are good options. Note that Sampletank 3 is 64-bit only so if you need 32-bit then you want the old Sampletank 2.5, if you can find it. Costs $350 normally but they like to do a lot of sales so probably look for those. However I do have a bunch of other options, so maybe I'd be more enthralled with it if it were my primary choice. The instruments tend to be pretty "meh" quality wise, and I rarely use it. However I'm not a fan overall, it was a waste of my money. ![]() It has a load of instruments, over 4000 they claim spanning 33GB of samples. Sampletank is another general-purpose plugin out there. Downside is it requires Steinberg's crap eLicenser activation (I think it'll work with the software system now, I don't know I use a dongle). It has a Yamaha MOTIF flavour of sound, no surprise since Yamaha owns Steinberg and they shared engineers on the projects. Has a very good browser and a lot of built in effects. It gives you like 6 dials per instrument to control the main aspects of the sound (what they do varies by instrument) and it isn't just samples, it does some synthesis too. Tons and tons of instruments (like 2500) which are very easy to control. It has like 10 gigs of samples as opposed to the maybe 30-50 megs of samples in Soundcanvas VA or TTS-1. Same rompler idea but higher quality would be Steinberg Halion Sonic 2. Not high quality, it is an implementation of old GM hardware modules, but I like it. I'd say its sounds are a little better than TTS-1 and there are a more variations (Roland claims 1600). It is Roland's own highly competent software implementation of a number of their SoundCanvas modules (the SC-55, SC-88, SC-88Pro and SC-8820). Along those lines is Roland SoundCanvas VA. Of course it isn't super high quality or anything, but it gets you some of everything. Has the entire General MIDI capital tones and one variation on them so covers basically every kind of music you could think of. I dunno if it comes with the Home Studio variants, but it comes with the big boy Sonar variants. One is the TTS-1 synth that comes with Sonar. Sure, there are lots of options if you want an "all-in-one" sampler. ![]()
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