Easiest to Use VST Samplers?

[tigerhajfisk]

Hi!
I can recommend Kontakt 2.
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[Douglas Whates]

Originally Posted by tigerhajfisk

Hi!
I can recommend Kontakt 2.
T

Snap.

[MustacheVerra]

K2 is the way to go....

[jonmatifa]

Gigastudio seems like a good idea until you try to use it and realize there is NO WORKFLOW. Its kind of sad because the engine is powerful. SOoo.... Kontact.

[MustacheVerra]

Originally Posted by jonmatifa

Gigastudio seems like a good idea until you try to use it and realize there is NO WORKFLOW. Its kind of sad because the engine is powerful. SOoo.... Kontact.

That's true. GVi being VSTi should be better but kontakt is so much more powerful.

[mavano]

Originally Posted by tigerhajfisk

Hi!
I can recommend Kontakt 2.
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Kontakt 2 is nice. But I definitely wouldn't call it easy to use...

[Dandruff]

Vemberaudio Shortcircuit

[gsilbers]

damn! kontak2? its the best out there but its not easy to use,.

are u playing the parts in with a keyboard or you want pattern programing ?

reason is still a good choice specially redrum.

you can convert samples with cdxtract

[johnnie red]

NI Battery!

[statikcat]

NI Kontakt is powerful but not the easiest at all. It kind of depends on what you are doing. I use Kontakt for all of my East West + other libraries and Battery for one hits. Honestly though.. Kontakt has great effects but Halion 3 is super fast with its nicer browser and keymapping. It doesn't get much easier. I find the browser and keymap areas of Kontakt very small and stand-out cumbersome (certainly not a show stopper though). Infact the whole Kontakt GUI is a pain for a lot of things. It usually just feels too small and a lot of scrolling. I would rather have sections of editing on different tabs/pages then one big scrollable page. Also hope your mouse wheel work with the scrollbar..

[MustacheVerra]

Originally Posted by statikcat

NI Kontakt is powerful but not the easiest at all.

that's true! But i cant recomend the others because they are so behind... No scriping capability.

I guess it depends what he wants to do exactly.

[NathanC]

+1 NI Kontakt

I also like Halion.

I hate GigaStudio.

[doubledecker]

Halion-Plug and play

[Bang]

Junk, I was actually in your boat, I was clueless about VST samplers. I'm learning now as we start to map for them. I would try to get some demos and work with a few of them. If you are going to be using my disc with the samplers, we'll have Kontakt 2, Sampletank, Reason, Gigastudio, and Halion first. If I left something out and someone really wants it, pm me.

[steff3]

easiest to use from the above:

HALion 3

not there but easier:
Independence (you can also load your MIDI grooves directly into Independence)

best