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 8.10.0 2026-04-29

(Latest)

Minimum OS requirements: macOS 14, 15 and 26

Highlights: This release adds a new Aftertouch Tool, new Instrument Builder features, and resolves some longstanding crashes.

OVERALL CHANGES.

ADDED

New Tool: Aftertouch Tool generates Polyphonic

Aftertouch from any MIDI input

ADDED

Support for NKS Connect

ADDED

Update notifications that will appear if a newer version of Kontakt is available to install

ADDED

What's New overlay to inform users of any changes after installing newer versions of

Kontakt

ADDED

New Instruments For You hidden by default for paid users of Kontakt

FIXED

Custom Sort Order in Sidepanel Browser not correctly recalled under certain conditions

FIXED

Info Pane in Sidepanel could inadvertently cut off text

FIXED

Crash when moving certain Instruments between Slots

FIXED

Certain libraries would load incorrectly into Slot 1, resulting in silence

FIXED

Replacing an Instrument could cause the Slots to reorder incorrectly

FIXED

Reordering Instrument Slots causing Instrument

Save As menu appear in the wrong order

FIXED

Tools sending RPN messages interfere with Instruments using RPN

FIXED

NKS Controller Mappings not working for Tools

FIXED

NKS Lightguide not always showing the correct color

FIXED

CC values were dependent on audio buffer size, and sometimes ignored

FIXED

MIDI Pitch Bend changes note pitch when it shouldn't for certain Instruments

FIXED

Tools sending RPN messages interfere with Instruments using RPN

FIXED

Only one controller value handled per audio buffer

FIXED

SKEY_COLOR_DEFAULT was blue instead of turquoise on MK3 HW

BUILDER CHANGES.

ADDED

Waveform* improvements including bug fixes and a completely rewritten API to load samples and access zones from Komplete Script

FIXED

Komplete Ul Waveform renders silence with a line that is too thick

FIXED

Komplete Ul Waveform displays erroneous spikes at the end of a sample

FIXED

Issue that rendered Raum reverb nonfunctional

*Note: Waveform is still experimental.

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