- Kontakt Player User Guide
- About Kontakt Player
About Kontakt Player
Kontakt is the industry-standard instrument platform for music creators, combining access to thousands of sound libraries with powerful tools for creating your own instruments.
Kontakt Player is the free version of Kontakt, our industry-standard instrument platform for music creators, giving you access to thousands of sound libraries. Kontakt Player hosts all of NI's Kontakt libraries as well as licensed third-party products. On the Native Instruments website you can get hundreds of officially licensed instruments from Native Instruments and other manufacturers.
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Kontakt Player integrates seamlessly with popular DAWs and hardware controllers, and the advanced integration with S-Series MK3 keyboards enhances your creative workflow with hands-on control over your Kontakt instruments. Kontakt Player also features Leap, a sample playground that lets you play and manipulate loops and one-shots to create exciting ideas and performances.
Kontakt Player focuses on browsing and playing instruments, while the full version of Kontakt gives access to advanced features like Tools, a suite of MIDI effects for generating chords and phrases in real time. Furthermore, only the full version supports building your own custom instruments, and lets you load unlicensed libraries.
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Kontakt Player lets you use some of the full version's exclusive features in demo mode, indicated by the DEMO badge on the user interface. You can use these features for 15 minutes before they will stop working. To learn more about the full version of Kontakt, refer to the Kontakt user guide.