I hope it doesn't seem like pissing on I'm Gary and Co. I'm really not. Obviously, I view the Gofriller and the Strad as the only useable libraries for my work. There really isn't a substitute. However, just using the pitch wheel as Hannes suggested isn't realistic for live work, when you have one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mod wheel.
That said, it seems as though they could have password protected the proprietary scripts while leaving the script engine available to people who want to add additional scripts. Obviously, if you write a script and you break the instrument, you can just remove it.
Anyway, I've come across a solution..
The software package Little Miss Scale Oven ( www.nonoctave.com) has two ways to retune. The first is Kontakt scripts, which won't work here. The second is a software tool called Nuscale, which sits between your midi device and Kontakt. It loads up almost any type of alternative scale and send the appropriate pitch change messages to Kontakt. For a while I still couldn't get it working with the Garritan stuff, but through a great deal of personal help from Jeff Scott, who developed LMSO, we managed to get it going while preserving the special legato, vibrato, crossfade and other unique things about these instruments. I can't say enough about the help I got from Jeff on this, and at $165, his software is a bargain for anyone interested in working in microtonal and nonstandard scales.
I've only been testing this solution for a couple days, but I've done some pretty extensive testing and it seems to be working well. I'll report back with any new news.
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