Dear Dennis, I have little experience and minimal knowledge, but I can tell you that the Kontakt Player can use Garritan samples. There was a time that this software was necessary in order to load Garritan sounds. Now Garritan has the "Aria" Player to do the same job more simply and easily, but Kontakt still works Others on the list will doubtless be more help.
Chuck On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anybody unconfuse me on this? > > Finale comes with a couple of players and instrument sets. There is also a > free Kontakt player from NI, and a full $400 version of Kontakt. > > Is Finale's Kontakt player the same as the free Kontakt player? If not, does > the free version work with Finale? Do both versions work together with Finale > & Garritan instrument sets? > > Does the $400 version work with Finale (as it imports lots of other samples > that I have and have created)? Do all versions work together? Do the Garritan > instruments work with them? > > This may be old news, but I've generally worked with EA stuff which tends to > be mutually incompatible and developed various workarounds. But Finale isn't a > plug-in based system, so what are the issues using these players? Do each come > up separately as instrument sets in the menu? > > Thanks, > Dennis > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807 Portland, OR 97209-3162 phone: (503) 926-7952 cell phone: (360) 201-3434 www.chuckisraels.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
