Native Instruments Kontakt 7.5.0 macOS U2B

For 20 years, KONTAKT has been the backbone of countless film scores and pop hits, as well as thousands of incredible instruments from NI and your favorite NKS developers alike. Now, with a new HiDPI browsing experience, an overhauled Factory Library, new creative effects, and under-the-hood audio improvements, the next evolution is nearly here.

HREE NEW INSTRUMENTS
KONTAKT 6 introduces the KONTAKT Play Series: Sonically rich sample libraries that combine powerful sound design with simple playability. Each offers eight intelligently mapped macro knobs giving you a wide-sweeping, intuitive range of control. They all showcase KONTAKT’s new wavetable module, each offering two blendable sound sources and a unique take on a speciality style.

ANALOG DREAMS
Iconic 20th century hardware synthesizers captured with an intricate level of detail, and creatively processed with seminal outboard effects. This hybrid analog/digital instrument utilizes blendable sound sources to deliver a modern take on classic electro and synthwave, which have seen a resurgence in recent cinema.

ETHEREAL EARTH
Hybrid organic/electronic instrument that takes myriad acoustic instruments from around the world, and combines it with digital synthesis, organic foley layers, and effects processing. The result fuses traditional and digital, with basses, strings (bowed and plucked), wind instruments, tuned percussion, bells/metals, pads/drones, leads, and textural ambiences.

HYBRID KEYS
A contemporary, creative, and ultimately new take on keys and piano sounds. HYBRID KEYS moves away from conventional sampling processes and instead focuses on inventive techniques such as re-amping, creative mic positioning in interesting spaces, and vari-speed experiments with tape.

NEW FEATURES FOR BUILDERS
KONTAKT has long since grown beyond its origins as a software sampler, and now provides a solid foundation for building advanced sample-based instruments. We’ve been supporting this platform, and the people who use it, with continuous updates to KONTAKT 5, and KONTAKT 6 builds on this strategy with some big additions for you builders out there.

NEW EFFECTS

• Replika Delay: Based on the dedicated Native Instruments plug-in REPLIKA XT, it offers multiple delay modes, each with a vastly different sound character.
• Room Reverb: A new high-quality algorithmic room reverb that offers options for real time modulation.
• Hall Reverb: Another high-quality algorithmic reverb, tuned for hall sounds.
• Plate Reverb: Emulates a plate reverberator for for classic vintage metallic sounds.
• Cry Wah: Wah-wah effect module, based on the most popular wah pedal of all time.

WAVETABLE MODULE
The latest version of KONTAKT adds wavetable synthesis to the ever expanding KONTAKT toolset. All three of the new Play Series instruments incorporate this new module, and we’re looking forward to hearing what you create with this powerful new building block.

CREATOR TOOLS
Creator Tools is a standalone application designed to improve the workflows of library builders and instrument creators. It consists of two elements: A Debugger, for identifying and fixing problems in KONTAKT script, and an Instrument Editor, which can load and run Lua scripts to automap samples, duplicate and batch rename groups, and copy settings from one part of an instrument to another.

What’s New:

Version 7.5.0

Lua API, new effects, browser improvements, builder features, bug fixes.

• CHANGED Minimum supported macOS version is now 11.0

KONTAKT ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS

• ADDED Seven new effects: Bite, Dirt, Freak, Raum, Twin Delay, Vibrato/Chorus, Wow/Flutter
• IMPROVED Context menus now follow zoom scaling settings
• IMPROVED Rendering quality of raster images in Native UI based instruments
• IMPROVED MIDI files dragged out of Kontakt don’t have the copyright message anymore
• IMPROVED NKG files are now visible in Files browser and also loadable or importable via double-click or drag and drop
• IMPROVED Maximum number of host automation slots increased to 2048
• FIXED Legato button did not work in any Tone/Time Machine mode except TMPro
• FIXED Clicking on virtual keyboard when Kontakt was in Single view did not respect the MIDI channel setting of multiple loaded instruments

BROWSER IMPROVEMENTS

• ADDED A button for loading the first preset directly from the instrument tile
• ADDED Filtering by brand
• ADDED Filtering by sub-bank
• ADDED User-authored presets can now have sound and character type metadata edited in bulk via multi-selection
• ADDED Warning dialog with a list of files that failed to import
• FIXED Scroll position is set to zero when the result list is resized
• FIXED Resizing the window no longer resets the result list selection
• FIXED Folders beginning with “-” can now be imported
• FIXED Content type does not update with the focused module slot

INSTRUMENT BUILDING AND SCRIPTING IMPROVEMENTS

• ADDED Kontakt Lua API, enabled through the new Developer panel in Options dialog
• ADDED Various options for showing or hiding incoming, script generated and ignored events in Mapping Editor
• ADDED Source module’s playback mode can now be retrieved with $ENGINE_PAR_SOURCE_MODE getter
• ADDED Option to copy sample end setting to all selected zones in Wave Editor
• ADDED continue statement is now available in KSP
• ADDED Real arrays can now be stored to and loaded from NKA files
• ADDED Selection state of a zone can now be queried with $ZONE_PAR_SELECTED zone parameter, and a list of all currently selected zones can be retrieved with get_sel_zones_idx() command
• ADDED set_map_editor_event_color() KSP command, which allows changing color of script-generated events in Mapping Editor, individually per script slot
• IMPROVED Snap to value or zero crossing options in Wave Editor are now retained per instrument, rather than per zone
• IMPROVED Internal modulator and modulation target KSP information is now always shown if Developer Options checkbox is enabled
• IMPROVED TMPro polyphony can now be set to 0 via KSP, in order to match the range of the related parameters in Instrument Options->Voice Handling dialog
• IMPROVED Snapshot files (.NKSN) can now be loaded from the File->Load… dialog
• IMPROVED Reorganized Mapping and Group Editor context menus
• IMPROVED Reorganized effect selection context menu
• FIXED Boolean not operator would not correctly invert a boolean expression that consisted of only literals or constants
• FIXED Function call stack would collapse entirely if exit statement was used at the beginning of user defined functions, rather than only exiting the currently called function

Compatibility: macOS 11.0 or later • Apple Silicon or Intel Core processor
Homepage https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-7/