Official update status - Kontakt (current version: 8.0.0)

Matt_NI

This thread provides information about upcoming patches for Kontakt. It will be updated whenever new information becomes available.

The currently available software version is 8.0.0. Please make sure that your installation is up to date.

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8.0.0 - 2024-08-23

New Default View with side pane navigator and browser. New Tools MIDI processors. New built-in instruments "Leap" and "Piano Uno", and Leap Expansion "Lo-Fi Vibes". New Traktor effects and Wavetable source module features. New Komplete UI language for graphical interface development.
IMPORTANT: Kontrol S-MK3 users must update to Hardware Connection Service version 1.7.7!

WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS​

• ADDED New side pane Navigator and Browser in the new Default View
• ADDED Browsing can now filter by Preset types (Instruments, Combined, Tools, Leap, Loops, One-shots)
• ADDED Full-screen Browser now shows onboarding information about different Preset types
• IMPROVED Full-screen Browser now shows Presets in a single column
• IMPROVED Bank chain can now be edited when tagging Presets
• IMPROVED Overlay and side panel browsers can now display high-resolution assets

KONTAKT ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS​

• ADDED New default sample instrument type for loop and oneshot based workflows - Leap
• ADDED New MIDI processing instrument type - Tools (Chords and Phrases)
• ADDED 5 new effects from Traktor: Beat Masher, Beat Slicer, Gater, Reverse Grain, Transpose Stretch
• ADDED Wavetable source module now has a second Shaper and a Modulation Oscillator, allowing various audio rate processes: frequency, phase or ring modulation, mixing in with the wavetable
• IMPROVED Instantiation time with a lot of content products and 3rd party plugins installed
• IMPROVED Kontakt now has 28 stereo outputs specified by default, allowing easier multi-out workflows out of the box
• IMPROVED Beat Machine now supports reverse sample playback
• IMPROVED Increased the maximum amount of external modulators to 64 per group
• IMPROVED Replika delay has greatly reduced memory usage and feature parity with the standalone plugin (except Dual mode)
• FIXED Polyphonic Aftertouch modulator was not applied per voice correctly
• FIXED Beat Machine playback did not take sample start and end markers into account
• FIXED LFO Fade In now behaves as expected (previously it clamped to maximum value earlier than it was supposed to)
• FIXED MIDI Transpose setting in Instrument Options now also transposes MIDI Polyphonic Aftertouch events
• REMOVED Memory server functionality on macOS

INSTRUMENT BUILDING AND SCRIPTING IMPROVEMENTS​

• ADDED Support for Komplete UI language
• ADDED KSP New MIR functions for key and tempo detection
• ADDED KSP Engine parameters for newly added effects, Replika parameters and Wavetable source module parameters
• ADDED KSP $ENGINE_PAR_VOICE_GROUP, allows setting a group to a specific voice group
• ADDED KSP Support for MIDI 2.0 Per-Note controllers (on note_controller callback, set_note_controller() command)
• ADDED KSP New command to send polyphonic aftertouch events, set_poly_at()
• ADDED KSP New command to get display value of an engine parameter based on externally provided value, get_engine_par_disp_ext()
• IMPROVED Warnings are not shown as errors anymore in Creator Tools Debugger and Kontakt Lua API terminal
• IMPROVED KSP get_folder() can now get the path of the Resource Container linked to the instrument
• IMPROVED KSP note_off() now has an optional argument for specifying the time offset after which note off will be applied
• IMPROVED KSP make_instr_persistent() now works with string array variables
• FIXED KSP Beat Machine did not respond to change_tune() commands
• FIXED KSP Regression in load_array() behavior when loading string arrays (since Kontakt 6.7)
• FIXED KSP Regression where $ENGINE_PAR_LR_SWAP and $ENGINE_PAR_PHASE_INVERT did not point to Inverter effect in instrument busses (since Kontakt 7.2)
• FIXED KSP Setting $ZONE_PAR_VOLUME was incorrectly clamped to 31.02 semitones
• FIXED KSP mf_set_event_par() created duplicate events when using $EVENT_PAR_POS
• ADDED API factory_snapshot_path and user_snapshot_path entries in the Instrument Options table
• FIXED API set_group_start_options() now properly obeys the given group index

KNOWN ISSUES​

• KNOWN ISSUE Leap: While adjusting tuning, all voices playing in single mode will be set to the same pitch
• KNOWN ISSUE Spacebar not reaching DAW when content is loaded from the side pane Browser
• KNOWN ISSUE Crash on loading Pro Tools project with many instances, while KSMK3 is connected
• KNOWN ISSUE Quantized notes in Leap instrument can kill other currently playing notes when triggering playback (This can be avoided by holding notes past the chosen quantization interval)