The sampled instruments sound very musical but also quite odd and original. More info: Soniccouture. The library contains over 13, individual drum kits, with multiple round-robin variations and dynamic layers for each sampled drum. You also get a fully customized user interface for Kontakt Player. The interface features a fully-fledged virtual mixer with volume, pan, and FX controls for each drum channel. The drums were recorded using state-of-the-art studio gear, including a range of Neumann microphones.
Some of the drum elements offer a choice between multiple microphone models. Hover the mouse over the drum kit photo on the interface to access the microphone selection menu. The instrument comes with over 1, original drum grooves, including a range of rhythms, fills, and intros. The drum loops are organized into music genre categories for easy browsing.
Another free drum kit for Kontakt Player comes from Room Audio. Thanks to its modern sound, the recorded drum kit is perfect for use in pop-rock tracks. The free library contains seven kit pieces one kick, one snare, two toms, one crash, one ride, and one pair of hats from the full version of the product. The Kontakt interface features a twelve-channel virtual mixer with a selection of audio effects.
Also, the user can adjust the individual kit piece tunings, sustain, volume envelopes, MIDI mappings, and several other performance controls.
Keep in mind that the free version of the Jay Maas signature kit only features seven drum kit pieces from the full library. You get one kick, one snare, two toms, and three cymbals. Ferrum — Free Edition is the freely downloadable version of Keepforests epic Ferrum sound library.
It features a collection of modern trailer percussion sounds, including impacts, metal foley, cymbals, and more. It is an excellent instrument for creating cinematic percussion loops. It can be used to modulate the filter, pan, and pitch for each note, adding interest and groove to the generated loops. More info: Ferrum — Free Edition. Arcane by Embertone is both a game and a sound library. Fully compatible with Kontakt Player, Arcane will require you to play a puzzle game before accessing its sounds.
There are five instruments to unlock and one bonus instrument offered as a prize after all the puzzles have been solved. This bonus instrument is a beautiful alto vocal legato patch that is well worth unlocking.
Also, register Arcane to your Native Instruments account, and you will qualify for the Kontakt crossgrade offer more on later in this article.
More info: Arcane. It contains a variety of sampled instruments, from pianos and synthesizers to drums and orchestra. It offers an abundance of sampled instruments for composers of all skill levels. The process will vary depending on the library vendor. Regardless you should be able to add free libraries to Kontakt Player by following the steps listed below. The installed library should be activated and ready for use in Kontakt Player.
However, many users stick to the free Kontakt Player because the full version of the software is expensive.
Register and activate a third-party Kontakt Player library to qualify for the Kontakt crossgrade offer. Native Instruments have a Kontakt crossgrade offer in place for users who own a third-party Kontakt library in their account. And yes, free third-party libraries also qualify for the crossgrade offer, as long as the library is registered correctly and activated using a valid serial number.
The crossgrade method reportedly works with the Arcane library by Embertone. Multiple users have reported that they could access the Kontakt crossgrade offer as soon as Arcane was added to their Native Instruments account. That said, the crossgrade should work, in theory, when you register and activate any of the third-party libraries listed on this page. To check if your Native Instrument account qualifies for the Kontakt crossgrade offer, visit the Kontakt 6 pricing page and verify the price.
Tomislav is a content creator and sound designer from Belgrade, Serbia. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief here at Bedroom Producers Blog. Worth to mention that only 3 out of 6 instruments from Soniccouture are free. Others are free with any purchase one instrument per buying. Also you forgot about Kinetic Treats from NI. Not true, all six are free. Just register, login to your account and they are there waiting for you :. Wow, good to know. More such libraries coming soon, hopefully!
Yes, a great free library, but it was available for a limited time only. This library is no longer available. I did a quick double check to see if it was still available, but apparently I was looking in the wrong place. Sorry about that. It was available for free again this year just a few month ago. It seems that this offer is repeated again. Very very nice instrument. I know, I think I got it when they offered for free again.
Thanks for this! I had a couple of the Soniccouture freebies from when they were regular nki libraries. So I logged in and picked up all the freebies. I wish NI would update their policy on free libraries. The kontakt player should be able to play all free libraries. These are many commercial paid libraries that use Kontakt Player. Its not primarily intended as a playback engine for free libraries — many get that confused. This list is way overdue. Every other list bunches all free libraries together which is tedious to find the gems.
I was getting sick of seeing so many amazing free instruments released but only for full Kontakt. Virtual Instruments made for the free Kontakt Player engine. All of our virtual instruments include a video showing all the installation steps. Guitar Loop Libraries — Multi Format. Virtual Instruments.
Shimmer Shake Strike. Guitar Swell. Taiko Creator. Drumatic Creator. World Percussion Creator. Riff Generation — Outside In Edition. Riff Generation. Fluid Strike Tuned Percussion. Fluid Harmonics. Guitar Loops. Fingerstyle Folk Acoustic Guitar. Latin Jazz Guitar. Although you can move this folder to any location on your computer it is important that the files within it are kept together. Removing files from the folder can cause numerous problems with opening the library in Kontakt that can be difficult to fix.
One of the most common ways to load third-party sample libraries is to use the Files tab in the Kontakt browser, this is accessible by clicking the Files button just next to the Libraries tab. This provides you with a file browser built into the Kontakt interface where you can select the instrument you want to load. This is faster than the previous methods but still relies on moving through a file browser and several folder levels to find the instrument you are looking for.
The Quick Load browser opens up at the bottom of the Kontakt window, below any instruments you have open. The Quick Load browser displays the folders and files in columns. Clicking on a folder in one column will display its sub-folders and files in the column to the right of it. This system allows you to quickly move through the directory structure horizontally from left to right. Right-click in one of the columns to add a folder.
There are some other ways to access your Quick Load catalogue items but these are the most straightforward.
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