[LAU] Kontakt 2 format

[Jean-Baptiste Mestelan]

http://www.cdxtract.com/cdxtract2.php
does this (closed source, commercial).

There has to be other solutions (which I am not aware of, though).

Kind regards.

On 10/5/07, Mark Constable <markc at renta.net> wrote:
>
> On 2007-10-05 11:03, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
> > > There's a sample library I'm looking at, which comes in Kontakt 2
> > > format. I can't find any linux apps supporting kontakt 2 format. Is
> this
> > > because of patent issues, or just because nobody's had the time to do
> > > it?
>
> Probably time and need. Being a proprietory soundset it means
> whatever effort put into being able to play the soundset under
> linux still doesn't free up the soundset itslef. I've got 32Gb
> of the Colussus 24 bit (1/2 anyway) sounds but I can't give
> them to anyone who may be able to reverse engineer the format.
>
> > Well, I don't even think NI made Kontakt-sample-format public, did they
> ?
>
> Is Gigasampler (ie; Linuxsampler) ?
>
> > Would it be a solution for you to use a translation program to  obtain -
> say
> > -  sf2 files out of your Kontakt library ?
> > These do exist, IIRC.
>
> Excellent solution. I don't hang out in the windows world enough
> to have known that. I'll do some googling. Some NI format nuances
> may be lost in the translation but the free linux options are so
> lacking that anything is better than almost nothing.
>
> --markc
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