Dont buy this for the piano! YIKES! Piano is really bad! Strings are nice.

No effects so theres not many features.

Its a plug in!

I guess its a good overall value but I would save up and grab something a bit better.

Havent used him.

Not very sexy!

Pro Musician/Engineer

I Do It All!

excellent sound, very realistic, responds well, expressive, must get used to the use of the sustain and mod wheel as you'r,e practice will help alot. Recommendation: get 2G RAM on your computer. dont' use a computer pre 2005, don't use wet sounds, keep to dry sounds,

the Kompact player helps to keep the loading of sounds quick. i would recommend one the player per group, as an example: put all the strings to one stereo instance of the plugin, then another instance for horns,etc. the steinway sound btw is excellent as well as the orchestral sounds

easy to use once you practice with the mod wheel and sustain. make sure you upload the latest!

i would give it a 10 if I could authorize on ilok, but that choice is not available.

slow turnaround when I wanted to re-authorize my hard drive on another computer.

if you do orchestral, you want this,

30 yr musician, writer, performer, recording artist

christian contemporary, worship, folk, rock, r/b

Not bad. Some sounds are above average but not great.

Sparse. Bare-to-the-bones. Too few options to deal with system incompatibilties.

Pain in the a**. With such a basic layout and few features, you would think that it would be a cinch to use. Instead it's clumsy and illogical like most of Kontakt plugins.

Pure crap! It crashed within minutes after installing it. It only ran smoothly in spurts. It wouldn't work at all with my ASIO sound card.

It's not worth the headaches for the money you save.

No help at all fixing my problems.

Ugly farting duckling.

Active Musician

Pop, Jazz

Can't be beat at this price level! Beautiful to hear and work with.

Nice set od software included, plus incorporates well with other notation programs.

Excellent samples - recorded with taste and tequnical assurance.

Excellent value for the price.

Garray answers email questions himself, and free downloads of software updates are a real pleasure.

GPO has improved the quality of my output 500%

symphony musician, arranger, composer

serious (classical)

Fabulous. Make sure you have the minimum hardware requirements covered.

Gary Garriitan will personally answer your email questions. (I sound like an insider shill - I'm not.)

symphony musician and composer

serious (classical)