Kontakt or Mach 5?

vegasmich · Post by **vegasmich** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:26 pm

Need a soft sampler. Anybody could give advice? Kontakt or Mach 5? Im currently working with DP4.5. I know the library included with Kontakt is better.

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Spikey Horse · Post by **Spikey Horse** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:49 pm

What do you want to do with it?

I have both and IMHO K2 wins hands down in virtually all areas including speed, ease of use, performance, features (scripting, keyswitching etc) and compatability - ie the VSL horizon series (as well as the included content which is very decent in its own right) ....

But having said that neither has given any problems and I do use M5 a lot for making my own programs.

That's all....

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:01 pm

Yeah, if you don't have any fixed criteria for purchase judgment, get the least expensive choice.

boris@midney.com · Post by **boris@midney.com** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:47 pm

Kontakt and Mack5 are both limited by DPs 32-bit addressing, meaning you can••™t load more than 3.5 GB of samples, total••¦ for people who do lots of trks or symphonic works, with VSL and such, it••™s a nightmare••¦ perhaps long anticipated DP5 will embrace 64-bit••¦, we••™ll see••¦
Cheers
Boris
G5 quad/16GB + var

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:24 pm

Thanks for pointing out that side effect of 32 bit addressing limiting the size of samples; that hadn't occurred to me.

Do you know off-hand if this limitation is lifted by all 64-bit DAW's or just ones that are "native" 64-bit, like the (alas) Windows-only Sonar 5?