Native Instruments KONTAKT Factory Library 2 v1.4.1 KONTAKT-HiDERA

Today 2024, I hear many colleagues and friends in studios complaining about the Casio brand, which places a small rubber damper under the keys. Unfortunately, the white grease they use is corrosive and deteriorates this rubber, causing it to break apart into tiny pieces and leaving the keys stuck. What is this, if not a lack of knowledge in chemistry?
There should be a recall from Japanese CASIO so they can repair this damage, but this company makes more money on maintenance and charges a lot for new rubber that will also deteriorate.

Other brands that never evolve like our Kontakt include: Technics, Roland, Solton, Yamaha, Wersi, Generalmusic, and Kawai.

The exception is Korg, although it still has a very slow system. If we need to load sounds, switch performances, or if another musician takes the stage, we often have to wait half an hour to load a new set. Still, it remains the best keyboard anyone could consider buying—or you can pay a premium for Nord products. No!

In any case, arranger keyboards aimed at amateurs, despite some claiming they are professional, still leave Yamaha as the champion of good taste, managing to produce something 'rated an 8' over the last few decades. As for Roland? Forget it—poor quality, bad taste, excessively noisy, with feudal sampling that doesn’t align with the demands of what music claim for.

Now, I worry about this giant Kontakt library. While it surpasses everything currently available in any keyboard, there are talks of creating an arranger system within it. Lacks!

Despite this Factory Library, I still prefer the plethora of audio libraries outside of Kontakt company. When you think about it, 40 GB is small compared to the quality already developed by other companies for Kontakt itself, like the ones:
8DIO, Spitfire, Arturia, Steinberg, Strezov Sampling, Toontrack, MusicLab, East West, Orchestral Tools, Chris Hein, Ample Sound, Image Sounds, Cinesamples, Ueberschall, Impact Soundworks, Spectrasonics, Fluffy Audio, Westwood Instruments, Heavyocity, Audiobro, Embertone, Muletone Audio, Audio Imperia, Vir2, Sonokinetic, FXpansion, iZotope, SonicCouture, and Soundiron, among others.

I still prefer all of this to that relatively small package created by Kontakt itself.

Most intelligent musicians use a keyboard without any sound at all, as long as it has the crucial AFTER TOUCH and other controls.

In the next 20 years, I foresee advancements in AI, with artificial drummers and bassists who follow the soloist's rhythm and AI arrangers that play strings on the piano without repeating the pianist's notes. However, AI still struggles to listen and can't write scores or transcribe solos for guitar or jazz piano accurately. Current technology relies on old scripts that analyze frequencies, which aren't effective for complex tasks. While separating voice, bass, and drums is nearly perfect (90-98%), separating guitar and orchestral strings is still below 50%. Creating a MINUS ONE track without piano or violin is also far from feasible, less than 1%. I'll not pay lalal.ai
If you think that the garbage they made of Beethoven's supposed X symphony sounds disgusting, first of all, A.I. had to have help from musicians to try to recreate HIM, in other words, it was no good.

KONTAKT and never buy any keyboard without AFTER TOUCH.