It's got a bigger sample library and some whizzy new features, but what Kontakt 4 really wants to do is make your life easier. Kontakt's rack view, showing the library browser (left) and an Orchestral instrument loaded. Note the Dynamic keyswitches (blue) and the Standard keyswitches (pink) on the keyboard. Kontakt, as I'm sure you all know by now, is Native Instruments' flagship software sampler, and, as the large number four above suggests, it has now reached its fourth version.

KONTAKT PLAYER is a free application that runs all Native Instruments’ KONTAKT instruments, as well as third-party products made for the platform.

Each major Kontakt update so far has brought significant usability enhancements, improved stability and reliability, and new tools with which to manipulate and process samples. Kontakt's impressive sample library has also matured in presentation and grown in size with each version, and this library, for many, must be amongst Kontakt's major selling points. The Inner Game Of Chess Pdf Torrent. Version 4 sees little change to the software's core functionality compared to, say, the differences between versions 2 and 3.

Floral Design Vector File more. Nevertheless, version 4 does include a major new feature called Authentic Expression Technology (AET), plus a reworked Database with attribute-based browsing, an updated version of the library which adds 10GB of new sample data to the collection, as well as many new Presets and all-new Performance Views for every instrument in the library. Version 4 also benefits from a number of other under‑the-bonnet improvements which were pre-empted in the version 3.5 update, released just prior to version 4.

A quick run-down of the changes implemented in version 3.5 can be found in the 'Kontakt 3.5 Updates In Brief' box overleaf. Cosmetically, Kontakt 4 sees a return to the slightly more dour, monochromatic style of version 2. I preferred the brighter look of Kontakt 3 personally, but that's just a subjective opinion. Nevertheless, the graphics and text in the new colour scheme are all very clear and legible.

This is how the AET filter displays its morphing layouts. This one is an Articulation Morph from the Choir collection.

Kontakt 4's big new feature is designed to aid the authentic reproduction of acoustic instruments. AET works by introducing gradual timbral transitions between one set of samples and another, allowing you to 'morph' smoothly between them in real time. This concept might initially be open to misinterpretation: one sample doesn't literally morph to become another. This is because AET (which is inserted as an effect at the sampler's Group level) is actually a sophisticated Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter which acts upon groups of samples.