Multi Scripts for Kontakt scripting users.Sample compression to save on resources – without losing audio fidelity or taxing the CPU, says NI.(Yeah, see what I just said? You’re going to want to route synths through AET, too, aren’t you?)
(In other words, it squishes your sample together with the analyzed behavior of a real-world instrument.) It’s a unique-sounding process, and one I’d love to hear warped to unusual sound design purposes – not just faking real instruments, but inventing new ones.
That was no minor update, either, featuring 64-bit memory support (on Windows) and greater 32-bit memory (up to 32 GB on Mac), plus improved from-disk streaming, multi-core support, MIDI learn, and other enhanced features and compatibility. You see, Native Instruments only updated its flagship sampler to 3.5 as recently as July. Absynth might qualify for when you move to a different planet. I have a small selection of “desert island” synths. Those new filters and processors sound really extraordinary to me.
That makes the suite much more aggressive, and certainly as far as software instruments, as much as you can get in any one box, anywhere, for that amount of change.
The other big news – Komplete’s price is down to EUR499/US$559, with cheaper upgrade pricing to match. But with so much to cover, here’s the in-a-nutshell version so you can grok it all in one place. The big news is that Absynth, the alien-sounding synth that has become a darling of sound designers, gets a big update. Native Instruments released a slew of soft synth updates today – thanks to everyone who sent this in. I’m sure Native Instruments wants me to open with discussion of realistic-sounding strings in Kontakt 4, but instead, I offer a loose visual representation of Absynth’s sound engine.