Speedy J, aka techno/minimal pioneer Jochem Paap, has made a sort of software version of himself in Kontakt player form, with 4 GB of sounds and one of the crazier-looking Kontakt skins I’ve seen. I love the idea of making a software externalization of your musical ideas. (See also: Richard Devine’s recent loop collections for Sony, which I need to write up one of these days; Richard’s another Kontakt and Reaktor guru and can regularly be found among the NI presets.)

In the library:

• kits
• hits/tones
• loops
• sequencer-based instruments (using Kontakt’s sequencer capabilities)
• FX, Konstrukt scripting instruments