What’s New? 🔥

🔹 Revolutionary Music Creation Tools: The Chords and Phrases features make it easier than ever to generate complex MIDI content, while the randomization tools give you the power to create unique melodies and sequences instantly! 🎶✨

🔹 Leap into Fast Loop & Sample Manipulation: Whether you’re crafting intricate beats or experimenting with sound, Leap accelerates your workflow, offering 12 genre-specific expansions like Afrobeats, Latin Trap, and Progressive Trance. 🎵🔥

🔹 Expanded Factory Library: With over 900 instruments, from realistic pianos and strings to vintage synths and drums, Kontakt 8 gives you an unmatched palette of sounds to fuel your creativity. 🎹🎸

🔹 Hybrid Instrument Innovation: The new Conflux hybrid instrument combines samples with wavetable, FM, and ring modulation oscillators, providing a massive array of sonic possibilities. 🌌🎚️

🔹 Seamless Hardware Integration: Whether you’re using Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol, Maschine, or S-Series keyboards, Kontakt 8 offers hands-on control to modify and perform your sounds in real-time, keeping your focus on your craft. 🎹🖤

🔹 Enhanced Sound Design Tools: From simple sample drops to intricate custom instruments, Kontakt 8’s advanced editing tools, modulators, and time-stretching algorithms give you full control over every aspect of your sound. Your imagination is the only limit! 🛠️🎚️

The Future of Sampling 🌟

Kontakt 8 isn’t just a sampler — it’s a powerful sound creation platform that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in music production. With its intelligent tools and endless customization options, you’ll be inspired to explore new sonic territories and transform any sound into something truly unique. 🎼💡

The virtual instrument platform reinvented

Imagine any sound – Kontakt lets you find it, create it, and transform it. The latest edition of our revolutionary sampling platform combines a brand-new set of intelligent tools with countless sound design options, redefining how you generate ideas and make music.

A huge choice of sound

Kontakt hosts the world’s largest range of virtual instruments. With thousands of libraries, it’s the gateway to quality sound from Native Instruments, our official partners, and scores of indie developers. Plus, everything is completely tweakable, so you can make any sound your own.

What’s new in Kontakt 8?

Our most feature-packed release yet is here to transform the way you generate, modulate, and playback sound. Plus, it’s packed with performance updates so you can work faster than ever.

Smash writer’s block

Tools add a completely new layer of creative features to get the ideas flowing. And they work with any Kontakt instrument, old and new. For our first drop, we’re launching MIDI content and randomization features with Chords and Phrases, designed to spark new ideas and get you in the zone fast.

Fast and fun loop control

Leap is an ultra-fast and playful way to play and manipulate loops. Spark fresh ideas, sprinkle in expressive performance effects, or just jam. Breathe new life into your sample collection or try something totally fresh with our new Leap Expansions series, starting with 12 curated packs for specific genres and styles.

Sound like nothing else

Conflux is the first in a new breed of Kontakt instruments for experimental sound design. Layer organic and synthetic samples and add dynamic movement to static sounds in real time, with original PPG wavetables and techniques like FM, Phase Modulation, and Ring Modulation.

Get going with hundreds of included instruments

Kontakt’s Factory Library comes packed with over hundreds of meticulously sampled instruments. Get started with a huge playable and tweakable selection of acoustic and electronic options, including the renowned collection from Orchestral Tools, plus Hybrid Keys.

Dream it, build it

All your favorite Kontakt instruments are built right here. The powerful feature set makes Kontakt the first choice for instrument developers worldwide, and it just got even bigger with enhanced synth capabilities, including real-time wavetable, frequency modulation, and ring modulation oscillators.

Save on even more sound

Kontakt 8 comes included with our Komplete 15 production bundle, in the Standard tier and above. It’s a huge saving on an unparalleled range of plugins. And there’s endless creative possibilities to be had with Kontakt’s creative tools applied to heavy hitters like Noire, Stradivari Violin, Vocal Colors, and much more.

Explore Komplete 15

What’s the difference between Kontakt and Kontakt Player?

Kontakt 8 Player

Just looking to use Kontakt instruments? Kontakt Player is the free version that runs all NI Kontakt instruments and many more officially licensed options from third-party developers (make sure to check the compatibility before you buy). Get it now in the Komplete Start bundle.

Kontakt 8

The full version of Kontakt offers all the powerful creation tools and a gateway to a trove of unique virtual instruments. There’s the Kontakt Factory Library plus thousands of options from indie instrument developers.

The go-to for pros

You’ve heard Kontakt at the top of the charts, in Oscar-winning scores, and on the soundtracks of major TV shows. It’s the favorite of so many composers, producers, and sound designers for its unmatched sound quality, deep manipulation feature set, and incredible attention to detail.

Seamless integration

Kontakt works in harmony with all major DAWs and Native Instruments hardware. For the best possible experience, S-Series MK3 keyboards bring Kontakt to life with an immersive direct connection that makes virtual instruments feel real.