When will Kontakt 7 be available to buy separately

ivansc · September 2022

Does anyone know for sure that we will be able to buy Kontakt 7 separately when it is released in October, rather than having to buy Komplete?

I already own so many of the Komplete instruments, etc., I really dont need to buy the whole Komplete itself, but really like being able to use Kontakt (from version 1 to version 5 full & 6 player. I generally buy the new version every other one)

Thanks for any advice that can be offered.

ivansc

MartinHines · September 2022

Yes. Kontakt will be sold as a individual product. Kontakt is too important to NI given there are so many 3rd party libraries built on it.

According to NI, Kontakt 7 will be available sometime in October 2022.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-7/

Kaiwan_NI · September 2022

Hi @ivansc I can confirm that Kontakt 7 will be available for purchase as a single product next week.

MartinHines · September 2022

Yes. Kontakt will be sold as a individual product. Kontakt is too important to NI given there are so many 3rd party libraries built on it.

According to NI, Kontakt 7 will be available sometime in October 2022.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-7/

trusampler · September 2022

They might want to offer it for sale a bit sooner, before customers get to demo it. Once they demo it, you're going to hear some upset customers. NI Make the money while you can.

HarrySound · September 2022

Will the full release of Kontakt 7 unify the plugin so I can load an older project and have everything magically loaded into the "Kontakt" plugin rather than the specific "Kontakt 7" plugin

Kaiwan_NI · September 2022

Hi @ivansc I can confirm that Kontakt 7 will be available for purchase as a single product next week.

Kaiwan_NI · September 2022

@HarrySound Kontakt 6 and 7 are two separate plugins so Kontakt instances in your project won’t switch automatically to version 7. You'll need to manually replace them.