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Session Guitarist updates and compatibility with Kontakt 7/6
Hey everyone, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Session Guitarist series, there was an update for all the libraries, with the MIDI drag’n drop feature, updated riff and phrase modes, and NKS2 support. Unfortunately for those who were using these libraries with Kontakt 7 or 6, this breaks compatibility. For those who…
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Previous versions of recently updated Kontakt libraries / compatibility with K6 older libraries
Hey all, There are a lot of recent updates for Kontakt libraries to port those to 7.6 and taking more advantage of the MK3 keyboard new possibilities. Some of you expressed the need for previous versions as you do not wish to use Kontakt 7 for various reasons. Here are the installers for those libraries. Let us know if you…
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Official update status - Kontakt (current version: 8.10.0)
This thread provides information about upcoming patches for Kontakt. It will be updated whenever new information becomes available. The currently available software version is 8.10.0. Please make sure that your installation is up to date. —————————— 8.10.0 (2026-04-29) Minimum OS requirements: macOS 14, 15 and 26 (latest…
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KNOWN ISSUE: Kontakt 8.10 update is crashing Nuendo
How can I rollback Kontakt from 8.10 to 8.9? I'm trying to locate a direct download link for Kontakt 8.9? Thnaks Phred
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Kontakt Factory Library 1 not showing in the Browser
Hello, I just noticed that the Kontakt 8 browser doesn't show the Kontakt Factory Library mk1 (which includes a useful harpsichord), whereas Kontakt 7 does. Can you confirm this? Please note that its visibility is ticked in the options (as shown in the screenshot). Thank you.
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Kontakt 8.10.1 slow and have search problems
I have had to go back to version 8.9.0 as kontakt became slow and if you add exra kontakt vsts in FL Studio, product pictures disappear and says No results found, press for new search. As soon as I went back to 8.9.0 all went back to normal and is great! so there is a problem with 8.10.0 and 8.10.1 since after touch was…
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Kontakt 8.10 crashing Cubase pro 15.021 on Mac
Hi my cubase 15 pro for Mac (M1 Sequoia) is crashing on every project I have previously saved after the Kontakt 8.10 update. Please see screenshot. Cubase opens up completely fine while empty so it is definitely Kontakt. Does anyone else have this problem. I cannot open a single project. I threw out the preferences , still…
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Cremona Quartet Instruments are silent when loading from Ableton User Library
Hello I think I found a bug with the Cremona Quartet (All 4 individual instruments). When you save a Cremona Quartet instrument, for example Stradivari Cello to the Ableton User Library, it loads back in silent. This is a new issue, as I've been loading in these instruments from the Ableton User Library for years. The…
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Kontakt 8 crashes if a particular library is loaded AND my S61 Mk3 keyboard is on
I hope somebody can give me some guidance on the following problem: I have Kontakt 8, a S61 Mk3 keyboard, a Windows 11 PC and a number of Kontakt Player and Full Kontakt only libraries. Everything works fine except for one particular full-Kontakt-only library (Impact Soundworks Django Guitar) which causes Kontakt to crash…
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Kontakt 8.10.1 keep crashing
Since today’s update, Kontakt 8.10.1 keeps crashing. There are no issues with version 8.10.0. I’m using the latest Cubase 15.0.21 (Apple Silicon). It doesn’t crash every single time, but it has happened at least 20 times in one day in various situations. I’m not sure whether it’s a UI issue or something else. I also…
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Full set of Kontakt sound options in Fender Studio Pro 8
I see lots of videos showing an array of sounds available with Kontakt 8 in Studio Pro 8. However, my installation shows only a single piano option. Can someone help me understand what I might be up against? Thank you, Geo8257
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Getting weird "Content Missing" errors for libraries I have installed
I reinstalled Windows 11 from scratch a week ago, then all the music making stuff, but I wanted to keep things simple, so I didn't install all the versions of Kontakt I have, which are from 5 to 8, just 8. I don't know if it's the case, but I wanted to minimize problems with Kontakt, and I thought installing just the…
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Why is Kontakt still so buggy?
I have installed Windows on PCs for over twenty years. Every single time, one thing is true: it's a fresh start. Everything works, as long as the hardware is fine. If that machine had weird problems before as a result of years of Windows updates and other software updates, they don't exist anymore, at least for a while.…
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Electric Mint
I recently bought Electric Mint. This is what I want to do with it: type in chords to create a song, for example D, Am, C, Em x 8, then use those chords to play an instrument within Mint. I then want to export the midi information of the song I've created into my DAW. I've read the manual and watched several videos but…
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Can't figure out how to get FL Studio's Piano Roll to control Kontakt note volume
I'm using Kontakt from FL Studio. Normally, in FL Studio, the Piano Roll allows you to control the volume of a given note by adjusting the Note Velocity in the Controls area. However, in almost all cases, regardless of which Kontakt instrument I choose, the Note Velocity doesn't have any effect on the volume of notes in…
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Action Woodwinds crackling on Mac Pro M1
Hi, just upgraded to K26CE and tested out a couple of patches on all my new instruments very briefly, excluding expansions. Two of them I get crackling, Action Woodwinds and Erosia Not too bothered about Erosia My buffers at 256, upping to 512 made no difference, I had to go to 1024 to get the crackling to disappear from…
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Leap libraries, what is your opinion ?
whats peoples opinions of leap libraries? theyre cheap but are they any good?
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Why I always see an empty shopping cart?
Hello, I've bee trying to buy an upgrade to Kontakt 8. I own Kontakt 5 already (I can see that I would get a discount for doing the upgrade) but when I go to the product page and hit "Buy Now" on the following page my shopping cart is empty and there's no other option except "Continue Shopping" which just goes back to the…
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saving times taking 3 mins since loading Kontakt 8 (KT-10248)
Is there a known issue with Kontakt 8. Since I loaded it last week , my cubase13 project saving times takes nearly 3 minutes. Is this a known problem? Always taken a few seconds to save projects previously. I am inclined to remove it from my work.
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Getting Spitfire Symphony (free version) in correct location
I have Spitfire Symphony in Native Instruments trying to get it into a location so Kontakt will use it. I click on "Add Product" but keep getting invalid location. What location should I place Spitfire?
