Twenty Five is an epic free Kontakt library that Native Instruments released in celebration of their 25th anniversary. The free Komplete Start bundle contains Kontakt Player, Kontakt Factory Selection, Play Series Selection, and other music production software goodies. To get your free copy of the Kontakt Factory Selection library, simply add Komplete Start to your Native Instruments account. You’ll also find a handy set of synthesizer samples, drum machine loops, and electric pianos, as well as a collection of sampled world and ethnic instruments.Īctually, my favorite part of the Kontakt Factory Selection is the African percussion patch that is perfect for building percussive loops. You’ll get the bread-and-butter stuff like acoustic pianos, organs, acoustic drums, electric guitars, and even some decent-sounding bass guitars.
Kontakt Factory Selection provides a valuable starter kit of acoustic and electronic instruments. Available for free download from Native Instruments as part of the Komplete Start bundle, it delivers a versatile set of sampled instrument sounds.
If you’re just starting out with music production, this (in tandem with the Kontakt Player plugin) is one of the first items to add to your digital audio workstation. I’m stating the obvious here, but you can’t write about free Kontakt libraries without mentioning the Kontakt Factory Selection. Kontakt Factory Selection (Native Instruments) You can also learn how to install third-party Kontakt libraries and how to get a Kontakt crossgrade.
There is much more I'm tempted to relay, as the product offers other approaches like arpeggios and the so-called emotives, but which I have found to not be as suited to my above mentioned approach for ornamentation. That being said, I agree with much of what procreative has reported, also wishing this product allowed more free movement (continuous smoothing) between different phrases in mid-measure. I realize the product as designed is perhaps intended to work more on its own terms, laying a foundation, rather than how I might be attempting to use it. I tend to optimistically hope these kinds of libraries will work as fills and bridges with other strings, providing a lilt or movement in various parts of an arrangement. Eschroder, you mention adding realism to mockups, hence my comments are in that vein.