NI Kontakt 7 v7.1.6 WIN & macOS
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.
Orchestral covers all the traditional scoring essentials, with large-section woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings, all from Orchestral Tools.
Find your sounds fast with the all-new resizable browser: Search, filter, and audition individual sounds, and import your own indie libraries.
Access 60 inspiring instruments from around the world with Acoustic – from flutes and pipes to bowed and plucked strings, lutes, and mallets.
Band is your new rock and pop go-to – picked and strummed guitars, driving basses, and classic drum sounds and loops.
Get instant access to an eclectic range of sought-after modular and hard-wired synthesizers with Synths’ cutting-edge pads, basses, arpeggios, and drums.
Vintage coaxes timeless sounds from some of the 20th century’s most iconic synths and drum machines, for authentic retro vibes.
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.
Kontakt 7.1.6 Release notes:
- IMPROVED Minor graphical internal improvements for Instrument building
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update)
- Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
- Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 2 GB RAM
- Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher, and Direct 3D 11.1 (Feature Level 11_0) or higher
- 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended for large KONTAKT Instruments)