Play back with high-quality sounds and create CDs with Sibelius. Each sound has been carefully recorded from live instruments, then meticulously edited to ensure that it will play perfectly in a variety of musical situations.
Kontakt Gold uses 63 high-quality instruments and 111 percussion sounds, of which you can play up to 32 at once. It is available as an add-on to Sibelius.
A world of instruments
Kontakt Gold's sounds cover woodwind, brass, keyboards, percussion, strings, voice and guitars - just about everything you'll need for orchestral, band, jazz, vocal, chamber, rock & pop music.
A world of musical instruments is included, from piccolo to Bosendorfer piano to female choir, plus more specialized sounds such as bass clarinet, flugelhorn, marching toms and handbells.
Strings are provided in sectional and solo versions, plus techniques such as col legno and sul ponticello. Other special sounds include different sung vowels, drum rolls, cymbal techniques, and picked & fingered guitars.
Whatever kind of music you write, you'll find Kontakt Gold brings every score to life.
Technical Info
System requirements
Requires 620Mb hard disk space (in addition to Sibelius 3 or 4); Windows XP (or some Windows 2000 configurations); Mac OS 10.3.9 or later. Additionally:
Scores that use up to about 8 different sounds:
Windows: 700MHz processor or faster, 256Mb+ RAM, preferably ASIOcompatible sound card
Mac: G4/G5, 512Mb+ RAM
Scores that use up to about 20 different sounds in Kontakt Gold:
Windows: 2.5GHz processor or faster, 512Mb+ RAM. ASIO-compatible sound card strongly recommended (not sound chip on motherboard), preferably separate graphics card
Mac: 1.2GHz processor or faster, 1Gb+ RAM
Scores that use reverb or more than 20 different sounds will need a faster processor and more RAM.
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