Native Instruments Kontakt for Nord Stage ; clearly this is

[Pidcin]

So I was browsing the YouTube and found some people playing what seemed to be a Kontakt library from native instruments that featured a Nord VST. Can someone with experience tell me what their opinions are on the VSTs?

I mean are they the exact same sounds from the Nord keyboard just used through a different controller? Does that mean a lot of people are spending upwards of 4-5k for these keyboards and there are a bunch of others downloading hacked versions of these lobraries and playing it on their m audio controller ?

[dhbp-nord]

Do you have the link to this video? Native Instruments does not have a Nord VST so it must be a 3rd party library. Also remember that 4-5K is getting you some very well built, easy to use hardware, not just the sounds.

DH

[analogika]

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[dhbp-nord]

Not great sound quality in the demo, and download links are full of garbage. Hardly compares to the real thing.

Obviously not sanctioned by NI or Nord, just a knock-off sample-set really. You won't get any of the Stage functionality with this.

DH

[Pidcin]

Okay, so the answer is NO. They don’t sound as good as the keyboards whatsoever .

[anotherscott]

From the look if it, not remotely close. It seems it consists of samples of 3 of its pianos (2 grands and an upright), plus 7 layerable pads, with a handful of effects. Even if they did great sampling (of a piano that is already sampled, so a subset of a subset of the original piano), there's the barest fraction of Nord sounds there (just a few pianos, and no organs, EPs, clav, mellotrons, etc. etc. etc.), no synthesizer... and beyond that, arguably the best thing about the Nord isn't even the sounds, it's the real-time manipulation and operational ergonomics.

[Pidcin]

Yeah , we’ll from my gathering they’re knock offs, and don’t sound anywhere close to the sound of what comes out of a Nord .

[Funk77]

But in the third version, the piano sounds better
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