The room and hall reverbs can also be modulated in real time. In particular, Replika Delay has additional distortion, filters and chorus effects that can be applied to the delay’s feedback allowing you to create some very interesting textures. You’ll have to go under the hood to access them, but it will be worth the time as these are really high quality effects. Kontakt 6 now includes Replika Delay which is based on the NI plug-in REPLIKA XT, 3 algorithmic reverbs (Room Reverb, Hall Reverb andPlate Reverb) and Cry Wah, a classic wah-wah effect normally used on guitars.
With that being said, there are a myriad of presets in each new instrument to experiment with for a very long time.Ĭheck Out Kontakt 6 Kontakt 6 Upgrade: New Effects You still get the 43GB Kontakt Factory Library and Retro Machines MK2 with the new Kontakt 6 upgrade.īut besides that there’s not much else for those of us that use Kontakt for triggering library sounds in our productions. Of course you can go beneath the surface and access the effects by clicking the wrench tool on the top left of the instrument panel if you wish to fine tune your sound. The other 7 macro knobs are tied to parameters and effects under the hood so even more dramatic changes can be made to any sound just by adjusting the other macro knobs. There are also 2 sound sources for each instrument, one of the macro knobs is used to blend these together to your particular taste.
The latter title indicates that you are running the Free Kontakt Player and NOT the Full Version of Kontakt. Once open, you will see in the top left-hand corner that your application is either titled “Kontakt” or “Kontakt Player”.
This can be done either inside your DAW or by navigating to the application via your desktop. To determine if you have the ‘Full’ version of the Kontakt application installed, please follow the steps below. Kontakt can be bought from Native Instruments here, or as part of Komplete here. A small number of our products work in the free Kontakt Player, which is stated on the product pages.įor ‘full Kontakt’ products, if you are using the free Kontakt Player, the libraries will display a ‘DEMO’ message, and will time out after 10 minutes. Most of our libraries require the full version of Kontakt 5 or above.