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[Kirean]

On peter said

I’d love to get your thoughts on how the Musio player is and the libraries play in it as compared to Kontakt.

I’m not sure if I’m the right person to ask, since I barely know what I’m doing.

So from my limited experience doing anything other than unbearable noise, the few times I’ve compared the libraries between Musio and Kontakt running the same notes, they’ve sounded similar enough. With Tina Guo for example it’s a bit tricky to compare the two since the default settings can be quite different (delay, etc) and some of the patches aren’t exactly one to one, and the overall operation can vary slightly between the two versions. (For example: I think on some Voxos patches Musio uses keyswitches for switching vowels whereas Kontakt utilizes the mod wheel.)

There’s some really random differences as well. Unless I’m going insane and have missed something obvious, I noticed that on Kontakt the Tina Guo spicatto patch has two more notes below C2 that aren’t there on Musio.

Playability at the most basic level at least has been similar though. I haven’t really noticed difference in RR or velocity. But remember: I can’t play for s…. so those more qualified probably have slightly more nuanced and a lot more informed takes.

The thing in Musio’s benefit though is that once you figure out the layout, it’s quite fast to go from library to another and ‘just play’. The Kontakt versions do tend to have a bit more features, at least as far as mics/mixes/special features & controls/options go. Musio also has libraries that don’t seem to be available for Kontakt (world instruments, women of the north choir, etc).

Anyway. Take whatever I wrote above with a grain of salt.

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