Originally Posted by Gavin Sinclair
The Native Instruments guitars do sound great, particularly the picked acoustic for the kind of thing I write. I have the free version of the Kontakt player which is compatible with this. It work as a VST plug in in the DAW. However, I think the keyboard would certainly help to get the most out of this, and that's a $1,049 investment. Does anyone here use Native Instruments without the keyboard?


I dont. I looked at Native Instruments when I was shopping for strings, because the strings VST in my DAW was so fake sounding. I ended up buying Hollywood Strings ($99) and am happy enough with it for what I do.

The NI stuff clearly is better and much more elaborate, but it's capacity would mostly be wasted on me and my little songs.
And the cost of getting into it...for me...was probably not money well spent.

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