10 Best Kontakt Instruments of All Time in the KVR Marketplace

By KVR Marketplace on August 17th, 2021

We asked the vast horde of KVR Members to identify what's cool. What follows is a list of the ALL-TIME most popular Kontakt Instruments according to KVR Members. The only limitation is that each Kontakt Instrument must be available for purchase within our own KVR Marketplace. What follows is the best of the best we have to offer within the KVR Marketplace.

See all Kontakt Instruments in the KVR Marketplace sorted by popularity here.

Chris Hein - Guitars is an "extra large" guitar library based around Kontakt Player 2. All guitars in this library have 51 unique controllers and scripts with features like: solo-mode, different slide-modes, chord-mode, different attacks & releases, automatic down/upstroke, harmonizer, etc.

Guitars included:

• Jazz Guitar fingered.
• Jazz Guitar plectrum.
• E-Guitar Clean.
• E-Guitar Blues.
• E-Guitar Metal.
• Steel Guitar plectrum.
• Nylon Guitar fingered.
• Nylon Guitar plectrum.
• Banjo.
• Mandolin.

The Orchestra Complete 2 - New Features - New Instruments - New Presets

"The Orchestra Complete 2" as the flagship of the "The Orchestra" product family combines the force of the original 80-piece orchestra with additional articulations and powerful features. It now includes not only "Strings Of Winter" but also "Horns Of Hell".

In this revolutionary all-in-one package the sound of a symphonic orchestra is at your fingertips. With the groundbreaking ensemble-engine we created a super easy way for you to convert your ideas into music.

Immediately playable. Completely customizable. Surprisingly simple.

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Loopscape is a tape-loop based synthesiser inspired by experimental musical pioneers of the 60s and 70s like Brian Eno. Eno created ambient music by combining tape loops of different lengths to create non-repeating, infinitely-varying compositions. Loopscape takes that concept and turns it into a synthesiser.

"With three loops combined, the result is a lush and dense synthesiser sound, evolving and transforming constantly... it's incredible." – Film & Game Composers review

Shevannai is a tool for composers and sound designers to create ambience and music for films, documentaries, video games and new age music.

Shevannai is a unique solo vocal library aimed at easily creating your own ultra-realistic melodies, without using any phrases. Thanks to over 4000 carefully recorded and wisely programmed samples by Eduardo Tarilonte (Forest Kingdom, Epic World, Desert Winds, Era Medieval Legends and more), handling the 5 true legato types and 33 words, is intuitively easy.

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Plectrum V2 contains the Kontakt Player engine along with the 12GB Plectrum sound library.

Much more than a tool or content library, Plectrum is a creative work of instrument design. Gee created his instruments from sounds made by plucking, strumming, tapping, scraping, and flicking a range of stringed instruments and found objects. Collecting thousands of full length high resolution samples, he voiced and tuned the sounds into full-range, expressive keyboard instruments.

Loopscape Vinyl is a loop-based synthesiser inspired by experimental musical pioneers of the 60s and 70s like Brian Eno. Eno created ambient music by combining tape loops of different lengths to create non-repeating, infinitely-varying compositions. With our original Loopscape, we took that concept and turned it into a tape-loop-based synthesiser. Loopscape Vinyl applies the same process to deliberately-aged custom-pressed vinyl records instead of vintage tape loops.

JENNINGS is a Kontakt software version of an early all-valve synthesiser designed in 1946. The original Jennings Univox was played by the Beatles during their early sets at the Cavern in Liverpool, and by the Tornadoes, who used it to create the signature synth sound of their 1962 synth-pop hit Telstar. It was designed by Tom Jennings who went on to form Vox amplifiers, and comprised a valve-based oscillator which could be run through a series of wave shapers, filters and EQs controlled by tab switches on its front panel, capable of creating over 2000 variations on the basic waveform. Vibrato added movement to the sound, while a knee lever controlling volume allowed the player to manage swells and tremolo wobbles in real time. The sound was output through a dedicated speaker cabinet into which the keyboard packed for transportation, making it a real alternative to other more cumbersome valve-based synthesisers like the Hammond Novachord for gigging bands. The Jennings Univox was similar to the Clavioline, another valve-based portable synth, but differed in its use of a sawtooth variant as its source waveform where the Clavioline used a square-wave variant. It is this valve-based sawtooth, rich in harmonic overtones and minor valve instabilities, that gave the Univox its uniquely warm analogue sound.

Two fantastic sounding Solo Violin Instruments in version 1.2

Never before, a sample library of this extent has been dedicated towards a single string instrument: Recorded with greatest care and endless details, precisely edited and merged into a practical and musical instrument for NI's Kontakt Player offering an elaborated custom-tailored user-interface with comprehensive scripting. Chris Hein – Solo Violin features high-grade sound quality and incredible realistic articulations. This library offers everything you have been missing with previous virtual string instruments.

Best Service - Chris Hein Violin Overview

Introducing Atom, a unique new virtual instrument for Kontakt with a powerful custom engine fully equipped to spark your creativity.

The machine is built around a beautifully diverse collection of intricate textures and organic elements, that were created from a huge collection of field recordings, custom made acoustic instruments including a tuned anker, propellers, the famous Koka's experimental Box even a WWII Torpedo and analogue machine noises, which were then painstakingly recorded, edited using the most advanced sound design techniques and finally assembled into a stunning collection of abstract cinematic & experimental organic elements. with over 180 patches & presets to be mixed and matched as desired.

Atom Review

Eduardo Tarilonte's Cantus - Gregorian Chants, a new Kontakt Player powered instrument.

Continuing the vocal series by Eduardo Tarilonte, Cantus brings you a real Gregorian Monk Ensemble featuring the sounds of the dark Middle Ages. A perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambiences and music for films, documentaries, video games and new age music.

Eduardo Tarilonte's Mystica Female Chamber Choir Teaser

Once again, KVR Members come through with 10 serious winners.

Check out all the KVR Marketplace Kontakt Instruments sorted by most popular here.

In case you're curious, the KVR Most Popular designation is a metric derived from the MyKVR Personal Homepage at KVR. All registered member get a MyKVR page on which they can identify what they own, what they'd like to own, what products are their favorites and much more. Check out your MyKVR Page here. Plug in your favorites and participate in the process of sifting out the best products.

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