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i have kore 1, komplete, and just recieved kore 2 last week. i'm still sinking my teeth into kore 2, and trying to wrap my head around the new features... but over all, i love kore. it really helped me to turn my mpc/computer combo into a giant groovebox.
the only reason why i even bought kore/komplete was so i can use kore to manage komplete 3. for me, the sound browser is the most awsome thing in world for me. i love how i can just use kore's FX as a plug-in inside of sonar also.
there a couple of things that bug me about kore1/2... i don't know if it's me, or just can't understand manual, or the features i'm looking for don't exist.
1) i still don't know, or can't make kore make use of a plug-in's multi channel output. i love emulator, but if i load one instance of it in kore 1/2, all the different instruments get mixed. i don't know how to separate the sounds, or if it can even be done. -if it can't be done... what a shame... especially if love kontakt. i also have this problem w/battery. eventhough battery is not multi-timberal, it does have several out puts, so you separate your sound in mix them in a DAW or something.
if you want to make everything mixable, that means i have to load a new instance of a plug in to represent every single little sound i want to use. so that means 4 instances of battery, a 8 instances of emulator x2... when in sonar i can do the same song w/one instance of each.
2) for what ever reason, i can't make heads or tails of the manual... especially the kore 2 manual. i still have no idea how to make the arp work. still now idea of how work w/multi-out capable plug ins.
3) still trying to figure out how to make kore2 recognize all the sounds that kore1 was recoginzing. right now, even tho i like the kore2 broswer better... all i get are sounds from fm7/8, absynth 3/4, massive, some reaktor sounds... and what ever sounds that came w/kore2. my list of hits have nothing from battery, vokator, spektral delay, pro-53, acoutic/elektrik piano, b4, kontakt, etc.
also, kore2 crashes a lot on my system. i just reinstalled windows, updated the hell out of it, updated the bios, and chipset drivers. i even partitioned the hard drive (1st time i have ever done this) so i can have one windows xp pro install dedicated to making music. i followed the opus audio projects guide for configuring a computer for use w/a daw. most of the time kore will crash when i'm playing a sequence from the mpc, and i start changing sounds w/out stopping the mpc first. but it also crashes randomly too (at least it looks random to me.) the mpc is stopped. i go downstairs get a glass of water, come back. save the project before i start tweaking some more, and bam... crash.
kore1 is a lot more stable for me. also, i'm using the kore1 hardware controller. actually it's only once in a blue moon when i actually use the controller... with or with out, kore2 still gives me headaches.
honestly, i wasn't planning on getting kore2 so soon... but the $59 dollar upgrade offer was only good till dec 31. i couldn't say no to that...
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