There's the Miroslav refill, which is from roughly 70 years ago and is not particularly deep-sampled by any modern standard. Your Reason-native options are extremely limited, unfortunately. You can close and relaunch Reason to reset Kontakt's demo timer to try things out.
Anyone know of full orchestra instruments made for Reason that can be competitive with those made for Kontakt? Part of my question was about instruments already available for Reason users including stock ones. I mght as well wait until May/June and see what happens. I read hints that there might be a sale right before summer. So do you just restart or open a new document in Reason to continue the instruments in demo mode? (the ones that are not player compatible) Also I do plan on making cinematic music for some of my 3D videos which is why I'm attracted to so many of the Kontakt libraries. I'm afraid to do the 15 minute demo thing because I know time will go by really fast while I'm in the middle of trying things out. Red Room Audio - Palette Primary Colors These require the full Kontakt, but you can still try them out for 15 minutes at a time in Kontakt Player. These are actually compatible with Kontakt Player, and are licensed so they show up in the lefthand browser.
Not compatible with Kontakt Player." I mean, it's good to protect customers from accidentally purchasing something they can't use for more than 15 minutes, but for the FREE stuff, the wording should be a little more inviting.
This was very confusing to me at first, and misleading to many when seeing the same disclaimer over and over of "Requires full version of Kontakt. I'm not recommending that you purchase libraries that require the full version of Kontakt with owning the full version, but definitely don't hold back checking out FREE libraries. Their libraries all require the full paid version of Kontakt.Įmbertone's woodwinds, solo strings, and other libraries are very good, and many of theirs are remarkably affordable (but the cheapest ones tend to require full Kontakt, so be careful).Īny Kontakt library can used inside Kontakt Player for 15 minutes.
If you're super budget-conscious, 8Dio's libraries are put on extremely deep discounts relatively often, though they can sometimes be a bit rough around the edges or more specialized than they seem, so it's good to be diligent with research and make sure you understand exactly what you're getting so you're not dissatisfied. Many of both those developers' libraries can be used with the free Kontakt Player (and can then be used to crossgrade to full Kontakt later). The stock sounds in Kontakt aren't especially great IMO, you're paying more for the price of admission for third-party libraries.įor orchestra I'd check out either Spitfire (especially Chamber Strings) or Cinematic Studio Series, and wait for a good sale. Currently 30% off allĪnyone here know if the stock sounds that come with it out the box are good enough to hold me for while? (I do also plan on grabbing all the free instruments that work with it) or does it still require buying 3rd party plugins? How much better are the instruments compared to the stock reason orchestra ones (probably a stupid question).
Look at UVIs platform as they produce amazing quality libraries. Kontakt is the standard platform for great sounds.
So much info and tutorials with it are mostly being shown with other DAWs. Just trying to gauge if I may be missing something I never tried with Reason as far as high quality stuff. Anyone here know if the stock sounds that come with it out the box are good enough to hold me for while? (I do also plan on grabbing all the free instruments that work with it) or does it still require buying 3rd party plugins? How much better are the instruments compared to the stock reason orchestra ones (probably a stupid question). But I know once I get it, I will not be buying any more plugins for a long time.
I started a savings to eventually get it hopefully if/when it goes on sale maybe. I really want to use high quality sounds. I'm tired of finding great instruments just to read the dreaded "Kontakt full version required".