The Flagship Sampler with a Vast Ready-to-Play Instruments Library
Kontakt 3 builds on its reputation as the industry standard for professional sampling. The outstanding audio engine and state-of-the-art modular architecture provide unlimited sonic potential for your music. Universal file import ensures global compatibility.
A huge sound collection connects you to a multitude of instruments, and the reworked interface makes playing and tweaking them effortless. Kontakt 3 is the premiere sampler for artists and producers from across the musical spectrum.
The Instrument Collections
Band
This collection contains all standard band instruments found in genres like rock, jazz, funk, pop, r'n'b and hip-hop. It covers among other things, e-guitars, basses, acoustic drum-kits, a drawbar organ and various e-pianos. A highlight for sure is the extensive brass section, in which both solo instruments and complete horn sections are contained.
Orchestral
The complete Vienna Symphonic Library Orchestra from Kontakt 2 was revised and has been supplemented by many further NI-produced instruments. The immense variations in sound and articulation has been ensured by several special functions: Typical instrument playing techniques / articulations can be recalled live (e.g. staccato, tremolo, sustain, fortepiano) while the convolution effect precisely reproduces real concert rooms acoustics. A new legato mode, an equally ingeniously yet simple Harmonizer, as well as a MIDI filter for the automatic production of certain kinds of scales ("Constrain to Scale") give completely new possibilities for creative production.
World
The much-requested World Collection contains many exotic instruments from all over the globe - uniting some of the world's most different musical cultures. Flutes and reed instruments, bagpipes, plucked instruments and percussions generate a global pool of unusual sounds, offering unequaled creative opportunities for the producer.
Synth
In this category you will find the full range of contemporary synth pads, basses, leads and drum kits at your disposal. Since each synthesizer type possesses its own Performance View (see below), you have the possibility of accessing in seconds the important parameters and tweaking the sound to your desire. Additionally this column contains an integrated drum computer for the synth drum kits - packed full of grooves from the go!
Vintage
The Vintage Collection handles the legendary sounds of analog synthesizers and keyboards. Also included are drum machines, organs and string synths from the seventies, and the signature digital devices of the eighties. Only the original hardware was used for the sampling. The directly sampled raw sounds therefore carry all the character (and peculiarities) of the original material. The unique "Electronic Toys" - section require special attention - a creative playground beyond compare full of quirky electronic toy keyboards.
Urban Beats
The Urban beats collection contains 50 ready-for-action drum loop production kits. Each production kit consists of a complete drum loop, single loop tracks (snare, hi-hat loop etc. separated) and the individual slices. Therefore you can vary and add accent to your loop with only a few keys. All contained loops have been exclusively produced for Native Instruments and are contained on no other sample CD.
Features
- Six Instrument Collections – over 33 GB of sounds
- Ready-to-rock "Performance View" for each of the 1000 instruments
- Reworked Wave Editor with tools for intuitive looping, slicing and editing
- Freely drawable envelopes per sample
- Improved navigation: Modulation Quick-Jumps, Instrument Navigator
- Over 18 high-end effects
- Enhanced workflow for Scripts with tabbed views
- Universal Import of virtually any sample format
- MIDI loop drag & drop into host application
- New Info Pane in the GUI, seven tutorial videos
Import and Compatibility
- EXS-24™
- KOMPAKT®
- Akai™ S-x000/Z8
- BATTERY®
- GigaStudio™
- INTAKT®
- Apple Loops™
- Reason™ NN-XT
- REX™ I/II
- HALion™ 1/2
- REAKTOR®
- ACID™ WAVs
- Emu™ EOS/ EIV/ EIII/ Esi/ Emax II and many more
Interfaces
- Stand-alone
- VST®
- Audio Units™
- RTAS® (Pro Tools 7)
- ASIO™
- Core Audio™
- DirectSound™
System Requirements
Mac
- G4 1.4 GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo 1.66 GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- 300 MB free disc space
- 34 GB for complete installation
- DVD drive
PC
- Windows XP or Windows Vista (32 bit)
- Pentium or Athlon 1.4 GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- 300 MB free disc space
- 34 GB for complete installation
- DVD drive
