What's new in KONTAKT 7 | Native Instruments

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.

00:00 - Intro
00:44 - The browser
02:40 - Factory Library 2
02:57 - Orchestral collection
03:59 - Choir collection
04:23 - Beats collection
05:06 - Acoustic collection
05:40 - Synths collection
06:12 - Band collection
06:37 - Vintage collection
07:10 - Audio improvements & FXs
08:25 - Outro

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[emanuel_soundtrack]

My impression is that idea is to make updates that help selling more products, not updates that make old users happy about basic things

[meter]

It would also be helpful to be able to change the font size of the menus.

[TheDeathBeatsOfficial]

I've not yet updated to Kontakt 7 as it dropped quite soon after I paid for the Kontakt 6 update which was annoying. I wasn't keen on shelling out another £100 for an update that didn't seem to offer very much. Anyway, I purchased a couple of new Kontakt libraries from Native Instruments over the weekend which ran in Kontakt 6 just fine. Today those libraries updated and in the release notes I find that they have now removed compatability for those libraries with Kontakt 6. I've had them for three days and now I have to pay another £100 if I want to be able to use them properly. Another issue I have with Native Instruments products right now is the fact that Battery and Kontakt interfaces do not scale which makes them very difficult to use on a 4k screen. I've fixed this problem however, by switching to Togu Audio Line's Drum and Sampler, both of which have scalable interfaces and use less CPU and RAM than Battery and Kontakt.

[MetalGear]

Can't believe they didn't add a resizable UI in rack view. This should be priority number one.
At the very least add support for higher resolution screens. Some 3rd party libraries UI's are almost unreadable.

[marconeumannmeditationen]

I‘m used to Kontakt 6 and before and can‘t tell you how much I hate to use the Kontakt 7 Player User Interface whenever I have to use Libraries that require version 7.

[neofaizan]

Just don't click on the edit button, or you'll be transported back to 1991

[djplatinium]

this should be available as a free update for all contact 6 users, nothing more then a ui makeover and some new patches for a high upgrade price
speaking of UI updates, when if ever we get a well overdue vectorial Ui's for massive, absynth 5 and fm8?

[KaiWenFranklin]

The Acoustic demo reminded me of the music from the movie "A Thousand Years of Longing"!

[ssuhung]

Yes the new browser is beautiful, but why the other parts of the UI are still blurry with low
The words on it is not only ugly but also hard to read for me

[ohheyitskevinc]

I have Kontakt 6 full now.
So aside from the factory library, adding back third party NKS support (after removing it in 6), and some kind of competing browser that users of Kontakt 6 have now when running Kontakt instruments in Komplete Kontrol - what exactly is new?
ARM support? Scalable window? Light guide, arp, chord support for KK S series keyboards maybe?
I’m just not seeing why I’d spend $99 to update this to be honest. Great sampler for anyone who doesn’t have it yet, but I can’t see why I’d move from 6 for this.

[OfficialStevenCravis]

Can someone clarify:
So now Kontakt 7 has a searchable database like Komplete?
Would it search all (full or free Player) Kontakt libraries or only free player ones?

[fleximarvellous]

Fonts in the setting windows are still unreadable on high resolution monitors.

[Teeb]

Can we have a definitive reason as to why the Kontakt VST interface still is not scaleable? The interface doesn't seem to have improved in any meaningful way in many many years. Have you even tried using it in a 2K+ environment?

[JayTheLane]

How hard is it to sort the ui scaling size? Making the browser scalable but not the actual ui of the instrument is why I've never bought Kontakt full. Font size changing is also a must, this is not 2013.

[TheSoundChronicles]

Native Instruments takes the wheel again. Love it <3

[mosemusica]

I have been auditioning my sounds already using the komplete kontrol software. All my favorites are stored there, is it possible to migrate those favorites to Kontakt if I decide to go this route?

[mightyredstallion]

Black Friday 2023 can't get here fast enough!

[AMBIOSIS]

I have the pleasure of Kontakt 7 Player. I can't wait for the full version, impressive.

[ConfuzenWorks]

Fabulous! But we need 'Load and Replace"! Adding/stacking instruments with omni or icremental midi channels into the same instance of Kontakt is fine and all, but hardly the most common use case. Am i right ppl? :D

[ToonyKid]

Is there still a way to get the VSL version?