NI 10nth anniversary, 1/2 off K5 and others..

I got an email in my mailbox this morning announcing their 10nth year anniversary. K5 and some other stuff half off. I wouldn't mind upgrading from K4 to K5 but not sure what the price would be. I did see something about $119 but not sure. Even at that price I don't feel quick to jump on it. If the library has something worth while I wouldn't mind but from my experience Kontakts library upgrades isn't that big of deal. Abbey Road drums are going for $59.50 but there's no info on the number of velocity layers or RRs. Some of you have it, any info you can give me? It also comes only for K5, not K4 and although you get the free K5 player it's not the same unless you have complete access to the samples, is that the case? :)

Abbey road behaves the same in Kontakt full or player as far as I can tell. As for velocity layers etc, if memory serves it's around 30 layers per kit piece, with multiple alternate strikes per layer. You also get seperate samples for right and left hand. The kits are incredibly detailed and sound very natural.

From the NI site: abbey road 60's drummer - Over 29,000 samples 24-bit, 44.1 kHz samples 6.3 GB library size, using the KONTAKT sample compression (14.0 GB uncompressed!) Up to 30 velocity layers for a single articulation Up to 6 variations of drum hits at the same velocity for added realism Separate vintage and modern mic samples for direct, overhead mono, overhead stereo, and room mics Two snare options for each kit Separate Right and Left hand samples for the most common Snare, Tom, and Hihat articulations Snare Top/Bottom and Kick In/Out samples Optional snare bleed samples for many drums Offers 'Lite' versions of each kit I'm guessing it's around the same for the other packs.

Yes, it uses some sort of algorithm based on how quickly the same 'note' is played though, so not entirely random. It works very well.

One bonus to this deal, is that you can pick up Kontakt at a great price, and then when NI to offers one of their famous Kontakt / Reaktor to Komplete crossgrade super-deals, make the jump to one of the most comprehensive offerings in our wonderful little world.

the K5 lib has a few advantages over K4 one, some improvements and tweaks, but nothing really major however the whole lib takes up about 1/2 the HD space... which is quite significant... K 5 includes the latest in scripting and some of the newest lib's won't run in lesser versions... and I'd expect that to be the case in the future... so I'd go for K5 if you like Kontakt. IMO, it is the 'defacto' sampler these days and really let's you do some kewl stuff.

K5 for $200 seems like a good discount, but I'm not familiar with the product. What would be the main benefit in also owning K5 since I already use SampleTank 2.x (with Miroslav Philharmonik, Sonik Synth 2, SampleMoog, SampleTron)? Thanks, kenzo

This thread makes me incredibly happy that I managed to get Komplete 8 for like 230 Dollars, during the Spring special! :D

Gas accck! All these sales always hit when I can't pry any money away from the budget... ;-)

Argh, just when I can't buy it :( Hopefully we'll see another sale like this in 5 years to celebrate 15 yrs lol