Overview of Native Instruments Kontakt

With Native Instruments KONTAKT, you can sound like a snare drum, a symphony orchestra, or anything from a universe of sampled instruments. It's a simple sampler when you want it to be and a deep sonic scripting laboratory when you need something more. The next generation of the world's favorite sampling platform gives you new instruments and features under the hood – so you can layer, link, stretch, and shape your sounds any way you can imagine.

KONTAKT 6 introduces the KONTAKT Play Series: New twists on sought-after sounds. Each place's robust, creative processing chains into a simple, intuitive interface. These hybrid instruments combine wavetable synthesis with creatively sampled content, allowing dynamic live blending and sound sculpting.

The instruments all feature eight carefully assigned macro controls, corresponding to the eight rotary encoders on our KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE hardware. These controls are mapped to numerous shared parameters behind the scenes so that you can change a sound dramatically with a single twist of a macro knob.

Features of Native Instruments Kontakt

Clear layout with flexible, adaptive interfaces

600+ instruments available in the library

Three new KONTAKT Play Series instruments

RETRO MACHINES MK II collection of 16 definitive analog synthesizers and keyboards

Covering a vast range of sounds from orchestras to drums machines

Record or import your samples

Hyper-realistic instrument libraries

System Requirements for Native Instruments Kontakt

Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32-/64-bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 CPU, 2GB RAM.

Native 64-bit support for standalone and plugin versions.

1GB free disk space or 48GB for complete installation.