Surely everyone that uses Native Instruments’ industry standard Kontakt sampler has at least 1 favorite free library or instrument. What I’ve compiled here is a list of my personal favorites. These are among what I find to be some of the most usable high quality libraries available. KONTAKT 5 is the industry standard sampler from NATIVE INSTRUMENTS, with an immense 43 GB sound library containing over 1000 instruments. Programs for query ″kontakt software, free download″ Kontakt Player 4. Install the Splice desktop app to connect your DAW to the cloud. Back up your work, get projects from the community, and download samples.
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- The extracted sample library always includes one or more Kontakt instrument files (NKIs) and the audio samples – usually in Kontakt’s lossless compression format (NCW). For most libraries there will also be two resource files which use the NKC and NKR file extensions and are used to store scripts, images, and impulse-responses if any are.
Sometimes we want to include realistic sounding instruments in our tracks. However, recording a real instrument or buying sample libraries can turn out quite pricey. Luckily there are plenty of free Kontakt libraries from which we chose our top 10.
You will need: Full version of Kontakt [only number 2 works with Kontakt Player]
1. Acoustic Guitar by Pettinhouse Audio
This guitar sounds very realistic thanks to its release and fret noises. Probably my favourite free library.
2. Flutes: Persian Ney & Shakukachi from Kontakt Factory Selection
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These two flutes included in Kontakt's free selection of instruments can add lots of oriental flavour to your track. Velocity curve control and beautiful effects included.
Ekali used it in his remix of Jack U's 'Mind' - passed it through some distortion and used 'a couple manual unison tricks' (found on reddit). Probably used also some tremolo and transposition modulation after that.
Download (scroll down to 'Kontakt Factory Selection')
3. Amore Grand Piano by Precisionsound
A very nice grand piano with Pedal sustain support.
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4. MSLP Grand Piano Soft
A beautiful and intimate grand piano. The background noise adds a lot of mood to the sound. Perfect for a sad outro for a song.
Download (From this enormous list by Bigcat Instruments - check it out)
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5. 'Street Bumper' Electric Piano
A very nice E Piano with Tremolo, and plenty of other nice effects. Velocity curve & Attack/Release controls included.
Download (Bigcat Instruments)
6. 'Skerratt London' Upright Piano
A beautiful upright piano to add melancholy or oldschool vibe.
Download (Bigcat Instruments)
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7. MSLP Vibraphone
Very nice vibes with ADSR controls. Might need a little panning work, but the samples sound great.
Download (Bigcat Instruments)
8. SSO Concert Harp
Another element to spice up your production in an oriental style.
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9. Sweet Melodic Choir
Great sounding male basses and female sopranos. Adds a mystical vibe to anything. Tweak your decay knob to shorten the ridiculously long samples.
Download (Bigcat Instruments)
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Surely everyone that uses Native Instruments’ industry standard Kontakt sampler has at least 1 favorite free library or instrument.
What I’ve compiled here is a list of my personal favorites.
These are among what I find to be some of the most usable high quality libraries available.
This is not a complete list of free kontakt libraries or kontakt instruments, its simply a curated list of my favorites.
There are hundreds and hundreds of free kontakt libraries, but to be honest, a lot of them simply aren’t that good.
They get plenty of burn in my production projects at least, some may even be slept on. So here they are, in table form for your viewing pleasure:
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Library | Instruments | Website |
Ivy Audio | Pianos, Vocals, Drums, Trombones | DOWNLOAD |
AURORROR by Fluffy Audio | More than 25 sound sources | DOWNLOAD |
16PAD by HelloSample | Drums | DOWNLOAD |
Free HD Orchestra Chords & Sustained String Chords by Sonuscore | Strings | DOWNLOAD |
Free Fall by Soundethers | Synth | DOWNLOAD |
NS Drums J13 | Drums | DOWNLOAD |
Alpine Project | Strings, Woodwind, Brass | DOWNLOAD |
Ivy Audio | Pianos, trombones, vocals and drums | DOWNLOAD |
Bicat Instruments | Guitar, Bass, Organ, Pianos, and much more | DOWNLOAD |
Impact Soundworks Shreddage 3 Stratus | Guitar | DOWNLOAD |
Waves Factory Whispers | Creepy Voices | DOWNLOAD |
Cinematique Instruments Landscape | Drone Generator | DOWNLOAD |
Cinematique Instruments Esemblia | Chamber Orchestra | DOWNLOAD |
Producer’s Store- Angel’s Harp | Harp | DOWNLOAD |
Retrosampling- Electric Piano, Breaks and Beats, and More | Piano, Drums, and More | DOWNLOAD |
Sonic Bloom- Mellotron Samples | Woodwinds, Strings, Brass, Flute and Choir | DOWNLOAD |
Cymatics Free Kontakt Libraries | Strings, Guitar, Keys, and Much More | DOWNLOAD |
Red Room Audio- Pallette Primary Colors | Orchestral | DOWNLOAD |
Detuned Upright | Upright Piano | DOWNLOAD |
AURORROR by Fluffy Audio
This excellent free Kontakt library is definitely the one I use the most.
Although it is a limited version of their fantastic AURORA library in terms of NKI presets, it still delivers on usability and sound quality.
AURORROR is advertised as a “horror cinematic and hybrid library” on Fluffy Audio’s website, but it’s a surprisingly versatile and flexible synth.
With more than 25 unique sound sources, 13 different modulators, an arpeggiator and polystep modes, there’s a lot to work with.
The idea is to layer up to 3 sounds and adjust the plethora of parameters to create your own sound. Your new custom preset can then be saved. Check out this review by Saint Joe of Sounds And Gear.
16PAD by HelloSamples
This developer has been around for quite some time and continues to offer a generous amount of extraordinary free and premium kontakt libraries.
Recently they stepped their game up even further by designing their own Kontakt instrument, 16PAD. Here’s a word about it courtesy of the included pdf manual:
To put it simply, it’s a 16 Pad instrument, each Pad has Volume, Panorama, Tune, ADSR, Filter + LFO, Distortion (Lo-Fi, Distortion, Skreamer, Tube) and Modulation (Chorus & Flanger) controls, plus 4
Send controls for 2 global Delay, Reverb and a Convolution Reverb (IR) effects.
There is also a simple on board step sequencer with controls for Volume, Tune and an Assignable Parameter per pad.
The pads can be selected via MIDI and can be colorized individually. The 16-channel mixer can be viewed by clicking the MIXER button to the bottom left of the step sequencer.
I would have liked to have had the ability to load my own samples and have darker more pronounced colors on the pads, but this is a very nice instrument nonetheless. Big up to HS!
Amore Grand Piano
This is a new addition to the list and honestly, we don’t have much to say about it.
It’s a great piano. And it sounds great. And it’s free.
Download it here.
Free HD Orchestra Chords & Sustained String Chords by Sonuscore
Both of these Kontakt instruments have an awesome sound and are dead easy to control.
There is only 1 knob on each interface, low velocity triggers major chords, and high velocity triggers minor chords. On Sustained String Chords, you can control the dynamics with the mod wheel and mix sustain and tremolo chords.
On both libraries, you can play low, mid, and high strings separately or play huge chords altogether. The interface is simple and the design straight forward.
It’s a great library for generating or enhancing your compositions.
Check them out below:
Free Fall by Soundethers
Free Fall is another library that has been out for a while, but I think it’s one of the most underrated free Kontakt libraries.
It’s dedicated to ambient textures and evolving type sounds which are useful in many musical genres.
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It comes with 18 otherwordly patches and you are free to create and save your own custom patches.
This library just begs to be experimented with and you will have 4 pages of parameters to play with: Main Engine, Effects Engine, Rhythm Engine and Output Engine.
There’s really a lot to go through with this library, once you download it, no doubt you’ll feel the same.
NS Drums J-311 by NS Drums
Just released a few days ago, NS Drum kicks (pun intended) in with a well-crafted and high quality sounding acoustic kit.
Not only does the library sound great, but it offers the ability to really customize your drum sound with a nice set of sensible parameters: Pan, Tune, Room (mic), Attack, Hold and Decay.
There are a good number of presets for each of the 6 drum sounds represented in the intuitive interface: Kick, Snare, Hi-Hat, Tom, Ride and Crash.
NS Drums J-311 also boasts I very high level of detail as there are no less than 27 layers per instrument, so you will be able to dial in just about any acoustic kit sound you like.
In addition, the FX page provides an EQ and Compressor for each instrument, while the MASTER page has an EQ and Compressor for the entire kit as well as a number of presets to choose from. Can’t wait to play around with this one.
It’s a great drum machine, and, you guessed it, it’s absolutely free.
The Alpine Project
If you’re looking for free orchestral kontakt instruments, look no further.
The alpine project is one of the most complete orchestral libraries we’ve seem- and it’s totally free!
There’s strings, woodwind, brass, and more.
Ivy Audio
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Ivy Audio is a donation based sample/library producer known for its piano library.
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It also offers trombones, vocals and drums, as well custom made libraries, which are of course, not for free.
If you’re looking for some classical piano, check out piano in 162.
If you’re on the hunt for some usable libraries, go check these 5 out. They are sure to inspire. Tell me what you think.
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Also, if you’re looking for a cloud based solution to manage all these free libraries + search for buyable options, check out loopcloud.
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*These libraries require the Full version of Kontakt