Native Instruments has released KONTAKT 3. It now comes with over 33GB of sounds and 1,000 individual instruments. These instruments include orchestral, band, world, urban beats, vintage synths and more. KONTAKT 3 has a new "Performance View" that allows you to quickly tweak sounds.
This video offers a nice tour of the new library and tour of new features.
Other new features include:
- Reworked wave editor for intuitive looping, slicing and destructive sample editing
- Multi-break point envelopes per sample
- Vastly improved navigation
- New effects including tube amp, cabinet simulator, rotator
- MIDI loop drag and drop into host application
The product is now available now in stores and the NI Online Shop. Full version: $449.-/ €399., Update from KONTAKT 1 or 2: $149.- / €129., Crossgrade: $279 / €249.- (from all KOMPAKT, INTAKT, KONTAKT Player versions, including 3rd party sample libraries with included NI sampler).
To learn more:
Mark Mosher 