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Old 13th January 2009   #14
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Originally Posted by Schmeckitup View Post
Wonderful sounds for the Steven Slate drums. I look forward to seeing V3.
I have a question about the engine, though. I'm friends with Steven Miller (OWD engineer), and he said they worked with NI to seriously tweak Kontakt under the hood to get it sounding the way they wanted. Are their changes to the Kontakt engine available to other developers or incorporated in newer versions of the program?
It mostly has to do with development tools and "Scripting" as opposed to visible features for Kontakt users. But, that said, eventually Kontakt may have more features thanks to sound developers requests.

By the way, guys, a more direct comparison to SSD would probably be our Studio ProFiles series and our Infinite Player where the approach was more similar in terms of specific character modeled kits such as the styles of Bonham, Ringo etc. or specific artists in Drum Masters of the Ken Scott Collection. I'll throw a few links to demos since you have some from SSD to listen to. Some you really can compare more apples to apples... like comparing the sound of the Bonham-esque kits or others if you want. The Ringo kit too although my favorite Ringo kit I've done hasn't been released yet. I recorded it at British Grove with the original REDD 51 console - same model the Beatles used. Can't wait until that's done.
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