KONTAKT is everything from instant inspiration for music makers to the industry's leading instrument-building tool. More than a sampler, this shapeshifting platform has powered two decades of blockbuster film scores and chart-topping hits, plus thousands of incredible instruments.

A NEW CHAPTER
For the seventh generation of KONTAKT, we're bringing its 20-year legacy into the future. Find sounds easily with a new resizable browser. Explore new musical ideas and find fresh inspiration with an overhauled Factory Library, newly added effects, and under-the-hood audio improvements.

LOOKS GOOD, SOUNDS EVEN BETTER
The revamped Factory Library in KONTAKT 7 not only ups the bar for sonic quality and quantity, it also brings our flagship sampler right up to date with big, beautiful, HiDPI interfaces. Get to grips with an endlessly playable – and tweakable – selection of acoustic and electronic instruments, including a new collection of expertly sampled large orchestral sections from Orchestral Tools.

FIND SOUNDS FASTER
It's hard to stay in the flow if you're always having to hunt for your favorite sounds. So we're putting them all out in the open with an all-new browsing experience. Now you can search, filter, and audition individual sounds from across your collection, view preset properties and edit tags, and even import your indie libraries and home-made instruments.

DREAM IT, BUILD IT
All your favorite KONTAKT libraries are built right here in KONTAKT, and creating unique instruments of your own can be as simple as dragging in a single sample, or as deep as your imagination allows. And with new Psyche Delay and Ring Modulator effects from GUITAR RIG 6, plus an updated time stretching algorithm, your creations will sound better than ever.

Whats New
ADDED New effects: EP Preamps, Fuzz, Big Fuzz, Stereo Tune
ADDED Configure double click behavior to replace selected content, or load additional content, via Options ---> Loading ---> Files, Libraries, Quick-Load: Double-clicking a file replaces currently selected instrument slot
IMPROVED Loading speed when switching between snapshots of an actively loaded Instrument from Library Browser
IMPROVED Increased the font size in Instrument Navigator
IMPROVED Instrument focus indicator (orange strip on the left of instrument header) is now only visible in Rack View
IMPROVED Use the resizer from Library Browser all across Kontakt
IMPROVED Kontakt now supports "Open with" OS behaviors with samples, creating an instrument that has the specified sample mapped
FIXED Crash when Kontrol S-Series MK3 Hardware Connection Service is not installed on macOS
FIXED Crash when playing a note after changing the output configuration with an already loaded Preset
FIXED Replika delay in Diffusion mode would not output sound when note duration was shorter than delay time
FIXED Visual glitches when resizing Kontakt's window across multiple displays
FIXED Replika delay not recalling delay time values correctly when loading snapshots that switch to Tape, Analogue and Vintage styles
FIXED CPU overloads during tempo ramps when Replika delay is bypassed
REMOVED Several entries in Options, which are now permanently enabled:
"Interface ---> Show mapping and keyswitches on virtual keyboard"
"Interface ---> Auto-refresh Files browser"
"Handling ---> Files browser: Double click audio file loads instrument"
ADDED KSP New callback type for defining behavior of all UI controls by their ID in a single callback, on ui_controls
IMPROVED KSP $EVENT_PAR_SOURCE now works in multi scripts
ADDED API link_resource_container() command
IMPROVED API When creating a resource container, typing .nkr extension is not required anymore
IMPROVED API When drag and dropping a Lua script onto Kontakt's rack, it will now be listed in recently used scripts
IMPROVED API If there is an error when creating a resource container, dialog will not be created any longer, instead this information will be logged to the terminal
FIXED API When creating a resource container, scripts from Resources/scripts folder would not be available to the builder for linking immediately
FIXED API When linking a script via set_instrument_script_linked_filename(), the script would not be applied
KNOWN ISSUE When Kontakt is started from VS Code, logging incoming KSP/API messages is not working (it is working when Kontakt is started from Sublime Text)
KNOWN ISSUE Hover state missing from new menus, when Kontakt is hosted as a plug-in on macOS

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