...unfortunately it turns out not 2b worth installing just to run a few preset libraries that NI give away with it...
Kontakt Player can also load 3rd party libraries. It just can't save your tweaks...

I use it to load some Loopmasters sample packs with pre-made Kontakt patches... (yes, I know ...

Free Kontakt Player (for Mac & PC) from Native Instruments is available for download from NI website:

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-player/

About the limitations:

"...the Kontakt Player offers full-featured playback only for Kontakt Player libraries and for the ...

ASCII wrote:

pshtt wrote:lame -b 320 -m s -q 0

How do you get -q 0? The highest I can get is -q 2

I'm using LAME3.98.2 btw

Hmm... I still use LAME 3.97 but I've just tried converting a WAV file using LAME 3.98 and it created an MP3 file with quality index of 60 (which is -q 0)

lame -b 320 -m s -q 0

Wow, nice find!

Renoise.

I use it on my Mac mini G4 with 512 Mb RAM. My computer is even crappier than yours. But Renoise works smoothly.

I can give two advices:

1. Try every DAW that has demo version and choose one that suits your needs.
2. Learn the software you like. It may seem difficult at first but it will pay off.

Windows only?

I bought Renoise and Cubase Essential 4.

808.

I bought it yesterday at Digital-Tunes.net.