In a move that’s sure to please an awful lot of musicians, Native Instruments had significantly dropped the price of both KONTAKT and REAKTOR. Both are designed to run as standalone programs or as plug-ins within a host application like Digital Performer, Logic, and Cubase, and both have been runaway bestsellers for us here at Sweetwater. KONTAKT 2 is built around an exceptionally fast, solid, and reliable sample engine and offers six unique playback modes: Sampler, Time Machine I, Time Machine II, Tone Machine, Beat Machine, and DFD (“Direct From Disk”). But perhaps its greatest claim to fame is that it can read just about any sample format on the planet. To get you started, it ships with 15GB of phenomenal sound content. REAKTOR, on the other hand, lets you design and build your own world-class virtual instruments, samplers, effects, and sequencers right out of the box. It even includes a huge new library plus a groovebox mode. Did we mention the new lower pricing?
