I’m really happy that we have 6.1. out of the door. Ironically, COVID19 helped to a degree to finish things up but that’s a different story ;) - 6.1 is more than the “.1” increment suggests. The
update contains a complete new class of templates, so called Snapshot Templates. You are probably familiar with Kontakt Snapshots already, they’re like preset settings you can save. Make a
snapshot, give it a name and you can freeze the state of all the parameters in an instrument. So why did we get into that? Among others, especially Orchestral Tools and 8dio users know how
frustrating it is when your instrument only contains a fraction of articulations which are possible and readily available inside. If you want to use them, you need to load them and take a
decision on what’s available to the instrument and what’s not. To overcome all this, we made multiple snapshots for each instrument which can be be loaded up into one instance of Kontakt and act
like one big instrument. As a result, you have the opportunity now to use all the articulations available at the same time.
Here’s a video which explains it a bit better:
Note that you need Kontakt 6 to load the snapshots.
20 New Libraries are available in version 6.1
8DIO Century Brass Ensemble v2
8DIO Century Brass Solo v2
8DIO Century Brass Lite v2
8DIO Ostinator Strings Chapter II
Cinesamples CineBrass Core
Cinesamples CineBrass Pro
Cinesamples CineBrass Sonore
Cinesamples CineHarpsichord
Cinesamples CineWinds Core
Cinesamples CineWinds Pro
Fluffy Audio Dominus Pro
Fluffy Audio Venice Modern Strings
Heavyocity Vento
Heavyocity NOVO Intimate Textures
Orchestral Tools Time Micro
Spitfire Albion NEO
Spitfire Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolution
VSL Synchronized Elements
Virharmonic Bohemian Cello
Virharmonic Bohemian Violin
Entirely new snapshot versions for:
Orchestral Tools Berlin Strings
Orchestral Tools Berlin Brass
Orchestral Tools Berlin Woods
Orchestral Tools Metropolis Arc 4
Orchestral Tools Metropolis Arc 3
NI Session Strings 2
Embertone Joshua Bell Violin
Those new libraries offer snapshots:
8dio Century Brass II Solo
8dio Century Brass II Ensemble
8dio Century Brass II Lite
8dio Century Ostinato Strings II
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Bob (Monday, 20 April 2020 19:42)
Awesome! Are there plans to make snapshots available for Play instruments as well?
Rick (Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:21)
Awesome Tool!
I don't use Cubase or Logic, but I do have Kontakt 6 and Studio One 4.
Can the Articulation sets or Expression Maps be used in Kontakt 6 running inside of Studio One 4?
mk (Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:24)
6.0 to 6.1 are these free updates?
David (Monday, 01 June 2020 06:07)
I just bought Tableau Solo Strings from OT. Very good indeed, I'd be surprised if this library didn't become quite popular given how good it is and it's relatively low (intro) price. Any chance of expression maps for it?
Ben (Wednesday, 23 September 2020 04:02)
Snapshots aren't loading for me :/ They are in the correct place and showing in the Kontakt dropdown menu, but when i select the snapshot nothing changes. Any ideas? Thanks!!
Simon Roberts (Monday, 26 October 2020 07:12)
This is all wonderful, and I adore Art Conductor, but PLEASE - someone tell me WHERE I am supposed to store the snapshots??? Not a single video I've watched has told me - they ALL start assuming any fool must know that! Well this fool didn't....! LOL