Hey Mark-
1. I thought we included a decent spread of jazzy/clean snapshots, and the unprocessed tone is as smooth as ever! All S3 guitars include some rock/metal sounds because we got a lot of requests for those. Otherwise, we didn't change the processing of the samples. If there's any extra sustain, it's probably coming from a compressor or amp in the preset in Console, which you can disable with a click.
2. The UI is indeed wider by design, something that became possible with more recent versions of Kontakt. We think it is much nicer on 1080p displays, ultrawides, 4K, etc and gives us more room to fit controls without sacrificing readability. You can view RAM used (etc) by clicking the little (i) icon directly to the left of the Kontakt solo button.
3. You absolutely should qualify for the discounted upgrade to S3 Jupiter from S2. If you shoot me a PM with your account email, I'd be happy to provide that.
1. I thought we included a decent spread of jazzy/clean snapshots, and the unprocessed tone is as smooth as ever! All S3 guitars include some rock/metal sounds because we got a lot of requests for those. Otherwise, we didn't change the processing of the samples. If there's any extra sustain, it's probably coming from a compressor or amp in the preset in Console, which you can disable with a click.
2. The UI is indeed wider by design, something that became possible with more recent versions of Kontakt. We think it is much nicer on 1080p displays, ultrawides, 4K, etc and gives us more room to fit controls without sacrificing readability. You can view RAM used (etc) by clicking the little (i) icon directly to the left of the Kontakt solo button.
3. You absolutely should qualify for the discounted upgrade to S3 Jupiter from S2. If you shoot me a PM with your account email, I'd be happy to provide that.
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