New Product: Native Instruments Kore Player and Soundpacks
Apr 22, 2008 6:08 PM Asher Fulero (Writer)
With 11 incredibly rich
and detailed instruments included, Native Instruments Komplete 5 packs quite a
wallop. But if you feel overwhelmed with all the options and are looking to
more easily explore the world of NI sounds (or simply a more
processor-conservative approach to using NI sounds onstage), consider the new
Kore Player (free download; www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=koreplayer&ftu=fe264a6a3d7fd28).
Composed of the six major NI sound engines inside a single GUI and a very
similar interface to the broader Kore 2, Kore Player lets you manage, perform
and tweak some of NI's best patches (as well as new patches that combine
engines) from a single window as either a stand-alone program or as a VST
plug-in within your DAW. Kore Player's powerful patch browser has the same
characteristic-based tag searching, full text searching and a rating system as
in the larger programs. Each patch has as many as eight included
"variations," which you can morph to-and-from via the x-y pad, and every Kore Sound sports
eight knobs and buttons that have been preassigned to the most important
parameters, allowing you to tweak sounds without access to the full programs. A
wide range of Kore Soundpacks ($59 each) are available to expand your free
player, each focused on a particular element of NI technology and packed full
of sounds that come pretagged for convenient use within the browser.
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