Kontakt Libraries' Compatibility

Luk3 · 2025-05-25T11:44:36+00:00

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Hi,
i'm new on NI community.
I would like to know if the old libraries of Kontakt can work on the newest version of Kontakt. For example: every those libraries that require kontakt 5.6.0 can they work on Kontakt 8 and in the future K 9, 10, etc? Or is there a limit?
The same question is for the Macos: if i use an old compatible library with kontakt 8, will it be compatible with the newest versions of Macos?
In few words: has a library to work with both macos and software or only this last one?

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Uwe303

Hello,

you can use older libraries with kontakt 8, even the legacy ones like the classic piano collection, as far as I know. I'm not a mac user myself but libraries should be no problem, I might be wrong.

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Uwe303

Hello,

you can use older libraries with kontakt 8, even the legacy ones like the classic piano collection, as far as I know. I'm not a mac user myself but libraries should be no problem, I might be wrong.

Luk3

Thank you for your thought Uwe303. Anyway, can i have a thought by macos users too? Because i have always had problems with macos compatibility and they (mac users) know what i mean

Uwe303

Of course everyone is free to answer here, I also can ask other mods how use mac os of they have something to add here, meanwhile this might also help:

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014900358-Compatibility-of-Native-Instruments-Products-on-macOS

Kymeia

Kontakt is backwards compatible with most older libraries - I have some of the first Soniccouture libraries like Scriptorium and Abstrakt Instruments that still work - whether it is Mac or Win is irrelevant as they are cross platform.

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