Quote Originally Posted by Kokotorobot View Post
check out shortcircuit, it's free and sounds better than kontakt...for simple sounds its a no brainer!
how it sounds largely depends on what you put into it, it's a sampler ;)

I have heard some good things about Shortcircuit although it seemed quite hard to program when I briefly tried it, and somewhat more limited than Kontakt

Might be worth trying though