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.

A NEW CHAPTER FOR THE WORLD’S FAVORITE SAMPLER

- KONTAKT continues to power the biggest selection of sampled instruments available.

- Search, filter, and preview sounds from across your collection via a new HiDPI browser.

- A revamped HiDPI Factory Library features new instruments from Orchestral Tools, rare analog synths, and much more.

- Build your own instruments with powerful editing and building tools, plus the Creator Tools companion app.

Changeslog

7.2.0 _ 2023-03-27

New features for instrument builders, performance optimizations and bug fixes.

ADDED Bus amplifier section now includes phase invert and L/R swap controls

ADDED Naming voice groups is now possible in Group Editor

ADDED Stereo Modeller Pan parameter can now be modulated

ADDED Lo-Fi Color parameter can now be modulated

ADDED Lowpass and Highpass filters in Solid EQ

ADDED Repack NKR button in Instrument Options dialog (only shows if the instrument has a resource container assigned)

ADDED Collection of new wavetables and single cycle waveforms

IMPROVED Previous and next instrument buttons in Single View are now disabled if only one instrument is loaded

IMPROVED Output section now correctly recalls effect slot settings saved in output section presets

IMPROVED Show additional useful info about the instrument in Monitor > Groups and Monitor > Zones panes

IMPROVED All remaining dropdown menus are replaced with HiDPI menus

FIXED TMPro Legato behavior was incorrect since Kontakt 7.1.3

FIXED Kontakt would crash attempting to reveal a sample in the Mapping Editor with no sample selected

FIXED Bass Pro would always process the signal in stereo even if Mono button was enabled

FIXED Mismatch in sample rate during sample analysis for AET filter which caused incorrect frequency response for non-44.1k samples

FIXED In certain cases the performance view would be incorrectly shifted in the rack

FIXED In certain cases the performance view size would not be updated correctly

FIXED Slice Trigger group start condition listed available slices in the Trigger Zone menu, instead of Slice Index menu

FIXED Pitch Bend Down/Up Only mod shaper presets were affecting the tuning even when pitch bend controller was zeroed out

FIXED Harmonize and Harmonize - Tonal multi scripts produced an extraneous note off event for the original note

ADDED KSP New source module engine parameters for Keyboard tracking, HQI mode, TMPro Keep Formants and S1200 filter mode

ADDED KSP Filename of the last loaded MIDI file can be retrieved with mf_get_last_filename()

ADDED KSP It is now possible to determine if Kontakt is running as a plugin or in standalone with $NI_KONTAKT_IS_STANDALONE

IMPROVED KSP In certain cases using many ui_panel widgets would lag the whole performance view

IMPROVED KSP Major performance improvement when setting zone, loop and sample parameters in batch

IMPROVED KSP Added optional arguments to search() command which allows searching only a specific range of the array instead of the whole array

FIXED KSP Incorrect script error was raised when load_array, save_array(), load_array_str(), save_array_str() commands were used in the init callback

REMOVED Pop-out buttons for Mapping/Wave Editors in plugin versions

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