Expands the Limits of Music Creation
Throughout its two-decade-plus existence, Kontakt has maintained a high-profile status as one of the industry’s leading software samplers. Native Instruments Kontakt 8 continues this legacy, providing electronic musicians, producers, and beat makers with an innovative feature set for unrivaled functionality. Kontakt 8’s numerous exciting updates include new music creation tools and loop creation workflows, along with a powerful hybrid instrument, an expanded factory library, seamless hardware integration, deeper NKS integration with faster browsing, and improved instrument-building tools. Longtime Kontakt users will appreciate Kontakt 8’s thoughtful additions and performance enhancements, and the software’s limitless creative potential will floor new users.
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The pinnacle of sampling technology
Sampling technology has come a long way since hardware samplers first started to emerge onto the scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Kontakt 8 represents the current pinnacle of sampling technology, offering endless ways to transform sampled sounds into gorgeously rendered instruments. Kontakt 8 raises the bar yet again, providing you with new Chords and Phrases tools that enable straightforward MIDI content creation, as well as randomization features for expedited melody and sequence generation. Leap provides you with lightning-fast loop and sample manipulation, and it includes 12 genre-targeted Leap Expansions: Afrobeats, Latin Trap, Platinum Pop, Progressive Trance, Soul Gold, and more. Beyond that, you get a new Conflux hybrid instrument that combines samples with wavetable, FM, and ring modulation oscillators, putting a whole new universe of real-time sound manipulation at your fingertips. Finally, Kontakt 8 boasts deeper NKS integration with hundreds of instruments, equipping you with quick browsing, previewing, and hands-on control over your virtual instruments.
Brimming with inspiring sounds and presets
The Kontakt 8 Factory Library 2 includes over 900 instruments, covering everything from pianos, strings, brass, and other acoustic instruments to vintage synthesizers, drum machines, and much more. Plus, Kontakt 8 allows you to tap into a worldwide community of cutting-edge sound designers, with countless third-party sound sets developed in and optimized for Kontakt.
Deep editing and sound design tools
Beyond its stunning collection of Factory sounds and nearly limitless options of expanded sound sets, Kontakt 8 provides you with an improved selection of tools for building your own instruments. This can be as simple as dropping in a single sample or as complex as building a bespoke sample-based instrument from the ground up using Kontakt 8’s comprehensive set of editing tools, modulators, time-stretching algorithms, and effects. The only limit to Kontakt 8’s sound design capabilities is your imagination — create the instrument of your dreams with Kontakt 8!
Seamless hardware integration for hands-on control
Kontakt 8 seamlessly integrates with Native Instruments’ and Maschine and Kontrol S-Series MIDI keyboards, transforming your DAW into a music production and performance powerhouse. Using Komplete Kontrol with a dedicated hardware controller, you can keep your eyes off your computer screen and on your keyboard or Maschine to browse and modify sounds and presets and get hands-on when designing sounds and performing.
Native Instruments Kontakt 8 Features:
- The industry-leading virtual instrument platform and sample-based sound designer
- Overhauled Factory 2 Library with over 900 instruments and sounds
- New Chords and Phrases tools enable straightforward MIDI content creation
- Randomization features allow for expedited melody and sequence generation
- Leap provides lightning-fast loop and sample manipulation
- 12 genre-targeted Leap Expansions: Afrobeats, Latin Trap, Platinum Pop, Progressive Trance, Soul Gold, and more
- Conflux hybrid instrument that combines samples with wavetable, FM, and ring modulation oscillators
- Deeper NKS integration with hundreds of instruments enables quick browsing, previewing, and hands-on control
- Import sounds from licensed 3rd-party developers and independent sound designers
- Create sample-based instruments with an improved selection of editing tools, effects, and scripts
- Seamless hardware integration with Maschine and S-Series keyboard controllers