A huge choice of sound
Kontakt hosts the world’s largest range of virtual instruments. With thousands of libraries, it's the gateway to quality sound from Native Instruments, our official partners, and scores of indie developers. Plus, everything is completely tweakable, so you can make any sound your own.

What’s new in Kontakt 8?
Our most feature-packed release yet is here to transform the way you generate, modulate, and playback sound. Plus, it’s packed with performance updates so you can work faster than ever.

Smash writer’s block
Tools add a completely new layer of creative features to get the ideas flowing. And they work with any Kontakt instrument, old and new. For our first drop, we’re launching MIDI content and randomization features with Chords and Phrases, designed to spark new ideas and get you in the zone fast.

Fast and fun loop control
Leap is an ultra-fast and playful way to play and manipulate loops. Spark fresh ideas, sprinkle in expressive performance effects, or just jam. Breathe new life into your sample collection or try something totally fresh with our new Leap Expansions series, starting with 12 curated packs for specific genres and styles.

Get going with hundreds of included instruments
Kontakt’s Factory Library comes packed with over hundreds of meticulously sampled instruments. Get started with a huge playable and tweakable selection of acoustic and electronic options, including the renowned collection from Orchestral Tools, plus Hybrid Keys.

Dream it, build it
All your favorite Kontakt instruments are built right here. The powerful feature set makes Kontakt the first choice for instrument developers worldwide, and it just got even bigger with enhanced synth capabilities, including real-time wavetable, frequency modulation, and ring modulation oscillators.

Version 8.8.0 (2025-12-04)
OVERALL CHANGES:
- ADDED Improved support for screen-readers and Soundflow-type integrations via macOS Voiceover
- ADDED Info Pane for contextual product help in Default View
- ADDED Auto scrolling in Info Pane on windows
- ADDED Removed View Menu and transitioned all options to contextual icons throughout the user interface or Main Menu
- ADDED Temporary user interface workaround to reduce kernel panics when using high resolution monitors with macOS. We anticipate a permanent macOS-side fix to arrive via future macOS update(s).
- FIXED Issue(s) causing Leap user interface to appear blank
- FIXED Inconsistent selection logic in Default View Navigator
- FIXED Presets not shown upon Instrument Browser load
- FIXED Instruments become un-selectable from Kontrol S MK3 once the Add Instrument button is selected
- FIXED Default save name suffix not duplicated
- FIXED Crash when adding a second instrument with Kontrol S MK3 connected and "Unwind Automation IDs" disabled
- FIXED Random Slot selection on loading Multis / Combined Presets
- FIXED Certain UI controls did not show Info Hints on hover
- FIXED No initial slot selection on recalling Logic Projects or duplicating Logic track
- FIXED Crash when incorrectly saving NKB

BUILDER CHANGES:
- ADDED New electro-mechanical keyboard inspired Electric C EQ modes to the EP Preamps DSP
- ADDED New electro-mechanical keyboard inspired Electric P Tremolo modes to the EP Preamps DSP
- ADDED Info Hints for the EP Preamp Electric C Filters
- ADDED Komplete Script now supports Info Pane
- ADDED Expose all menu entries of a KSP Menu to Komplete UI
- FIXED Broken KSP/LUA API console output to VS Code
- FIXED Copy / Paste Groups causing long lag times
- FIXED Setting AHD mode via KSP does not update envelope GUI correctly
- FIXED Komplete Script changes not picked up when project created from template

Minimum OS requirements:
macOS 13, 14, and 15 (latest update), Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack).

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