Kontakt 6 v6.6.0 VSTi AAX WiN PORTABLE
PORTABLE | STANDALONE, VSTi, VSTi3, AAX x86 x64 | 7 July 2021 | 465.3 M
With KONTAKT 6, you can sound like a snare drum, a symphony orchestra, or anything in between, from a universe of sampled instruments. It’s a simple sampler when you want it to be, and a deep sonic scripting laboratory when you need something more. The next generation of the world’s favorite sampling platform gives you new instruments and new features under the hood – so you can layer, link, stretch, and shape your sounds any way you can imagine.
What’s new?
Over two decades, KONTAKT has become a highly-developed engine for creating and playing sampled instruments. KONTAKT 6 offers more for players and builders alike:
Introducing KONTAKT Play Series: Three new instruments for the KONTAKT library, offering pristine, contemporary sound in a creative and streamlined interface
Wavetable synthesis module: Build hybrid instruments for entirely new sounds
Enhanced effects: Even more effects for your creations, for greater expression and realism
Creator Tools: New standalone application dedicated to improving the library creation and editing process.
THREE NEW INSTRUMENTS
KONTAKT 6 introduces the KONTAKT Play Series: Sonically rich sample libraries that combine powerful sound design with simple playability. Each offers eight intelligently mapped macro knobs giving you a wide-sweeping, intuitive range of control. They all showcase KONTAKT’s new wavetable module, each offering two blendable sound sources and a unique take on a speciality style.
ANALOG DREAMS
Iconic 20th century hardware synthesizers captured with an intricate level of detail, and creatively processed with seminal outboard effects. This hybrid analog/digital instrument utilizes blendable sound sources to deliver a modern take on classic electro and synthwave, which have seen a resurgence in recent cinema.
ETHEREAL EARTH
Hybrid organic/electronic instrument that takes myriad acoustic instruments from around the world, and combines it with digital synthesis, organic foley layers, and effects processing. The result fuses traditional and digital, with basses, strings (bowed and plucked), wind instruments, tuned percussion, bells/metals, pads/drones, leads, and textural ambiences.
HYBRID KEYS
A contemporary, creative, and ultimately new take on keys and piano sounds. HYBRID KEYS moves away from conventional sampling processes and instead focuses on inventive techniques such as re-amping, creative mic positioning in interesting spaces, and vari-speed experiments with tape.
NEW FEATURES FOR BUILDERS
KONTAKT has long since grown beyond its origins as a software sampler, and now provides a solid foundation for building advanced sample-based instruments. We’ve been supporting this platform, and the people who use it, with continuous updates to KONTAKT 5, and KONTAKT 6 builds on this strategy with some big additions for you builders out there.
NEW EFFECTS
Replika Delay: Based on the dedicated Native Instruments plug-in REPLIKA XT, it offers multiple delay modes, each with a vastly different sound character.
Room Reverb: A new high-quality algorithmic room reverb that offers options for real time modulation.
Hall Reverb: Another high-quality algorithmic reverb, tuned for hall sounds.
Plate Reverb: Emulates a plate reverberator for for classic vintage metallic sounds.
Cry Wah: Wah-wah effect module, based on the most popular wah pedal of all time.
WAVETABLE MODULE
The latest version of KONTAKT adds wavetable synthesis to the ever expanding KONTAKT toolset. All three of the new Play Series instruments incorporate this new module, and we’re looking forward to hearing what you create with this powerful new building block.
CREATOR TOOLS
Creator Tools is a standalone application designed to improve the workflows of library builders and instrument creators. It consists of two elements: A Debugger, for identifying and fixing problems in KONTAKT script, and an Instrument Editor, which can load and run Lua scripts to automap samples, duplicate and batch rename groups, and copy settings from one part of an instrument to another.
Whats New
6.6.0 – 2021-07-06
ADDED VST3 format REMOVED
32-bit formats
CHANGED Load / Import settings tab renamed to Loading
ADDED You can now set the path to user libraries in the Loading tab
ADDED Factory preset Arpeggiator (sync) based monitoring for reliable sync with host
ADDED The About window now shows the format (Standalone, VST, VST3, AAX)
FIXED When modulating the amp release, the release speed was delayed by one note.
FIXED On Windows, Contact could crash if the system folder with user documents was on a USB or network drive.
FIXED Contact could crash when dragging tools in the jar.
FIXED In some cases, the names of external modulators were missing in instruments created in 4th Contact or earlier.
FIXED Wavetable Inharmonic spinner was incorrectly calibrated (0..100% instead of -100% .. + 100%)
FIXED Cosmetic fixes in the GUI.
Installation
1. Create an empty folder. The name of the folder itself and the path to it SHOULD NOT CONTAIN Cyrillic. The folder MUST BE RECORDABLE.
2. Run the installer KontaktPortable_v631.exe
3. Click the Browse button … and select the created empty folder
4. Click the Extract button
How to upgrade Kontakt 6.xx PORTABLE to Kontakt 6.3.1 PORTABLE:
1. Launch the Kontakt6Portable_v631.exe installer
2. Click the Browse … button and select the folder where the Kontakt 6.xx PORTABLE files are located:
3. Press the Extract button
4. When the Confirm file replace window appears , confirm the file replacement (Click Yes to All)
How to install Kontakt 6 PORTABLE:
1. Create an empty folder. The name of the folder itself and the path to it SHOULD NOT CONTAIN Cyrillic. The folder MUST BE RECORDABLE.
2. Run the installer KontaktPortable_v620.exe
3. Click the Browse … button and select the created empty folder
4. Click the Extract button.
02.24.20 Fixed: patches of protected libraries (VST x64) are not edited, as stated