Kontakt 7 info leaked

[noiseboyuk]

Spin-off from this thread - viewtopic.php?t=583792&start=195

Screenshot here of the Native Access info page for Kontakt 7: https://audiosex.pro/threads/kontakt-7- ... log.66164/

7.0.0 — 2022-08-17
New HiDPI Browser, Factory Library 2 (first HiDPI content), new effects.
ADDED Fullscreen HiDPI Browser featuring global text search; filter by tag, brand and properties (editable for user-created content), favourite presets for quick access, and import non-player libraries
FIXED Kontakt is HiDPI compatible - correctly sized on high resolution displays
ADDED Two new effects - Psyche Delay and Ring Modulator
CHANGED Locate Libraries has been changed to Manage Libraries and redirects to Native Access
IMPROVED Octave numbers are now shown on the virtual keyboard
IMPROVED Help text now extends to the width of the rack
FIXED Tape Saturator would cut out the signal with sample rates above 192khz
FIXED Output section batch creation would create surround channels instead of stereo
FIXED Edit all buses did not apply to all send effects parameters
FIXED Kontakt would crash when attempting to display special characters
FIXED Kontakt would crash when forcing Wavetable parameters out of range via KSP
FIXED Banks did not have a default file name
FIXED Collection of minor GUI fixes
IMPROVED New empty groups can now also be created from the expert tab context menu
FIXED Group output was not saved in snapshots
FIXED Help tags would be stuck when overlaying controls
IMPROVED Maximum number of declared user zones has been increased to 1024
IMPROVED Empty user zones can now be hidden in the Mapping Editor
FIXED When using auto map in the Mapping Editor Kontakt would not interpret numerical tokens starting with zero
FIXED Zone auto mapping numeric value to single key would not set the root note
IMPROVED Save with absolute sample paths is now off by default and not persistent
IMPROVED Script errors and warnings are now more informative and consistent
IMPROVED KSP Added a getter for $EVENT_PAR_MOD_VALUE_ID
IMPROVED KSP ui_mouse_area now responds to control parameters for Control, Alt and Shift keyboard modifiers
FIXED An issue where Reaper creates mono instead of stereo channels for Kontakt multi outputs
FIXED A crash with Cubase using certain 3rd party libraries

[Echoes in the Attic]

A better browser might actually get me to use old Kontakt Libraries I haven't looked at for years because I never dig through the folders manually...

[_morton_]

Seems to be mostly fixes, hopefully they won't be charging for those, or 'improvements'.

[noiseboyuk]

A better browser might actually get me to use old Kontakt Libraries I haven't looked at for years because I never dig through the folders manually...

Agreed. If it's well implemented, could make a big difference in practice.

[cryophonik]

Seems to be mostly fixes, hopefully they won't be charging for those, or 'improvements'.

Yeah, that was thought my as well. Looks like a .x update, not a new version, but who knows how komplete or akkurate that list is...

[DNnX]

Changing to high DPI in the long life system needs much more works than we think.
Full GUI rework of Kontakt Factory Library should be a big pain too.
It reminds me of Reason 12 which had also high DPI update.

[noiseboyuk]

Until Kontakt 6 each .dll had the number in the name, so each plugin got added rather than replaced the previous one. But K6 is just called Kontakt.dll. Logically then I wonder if Kontakt 7 will be the same and replace all instances of Kontakt 6?

[Echoes in the Attic]

Until Kontakt 6 each .dll had the number in the name, so each plugin got added rather than replaced the previous one. But K6 is just called Kontakt.dll. Logically then I wonder if Kontakt 7 will be the same and replace all instances of Kontakt 6?

I hope so. It's the only reason I upgraded to 6 from 5, to avoid needing to replace them in the future.

[RobGee]

Hopefully there’s more to it than that, looks poor.

[DarkStar]

Indeed, it doesn't sound worthy of a major (chargeable?) version change.

[kmonkey]

A high DPI interface was requested for years. So it is a nice welcome.

I am curious, what do people expect at this point from the sampler behemoth such as Kontakt 7?

It is a genuine question. I am not a power user and to me, Kontakt's capabilities seem overwhelming and fully complete. So I wonder what people expect from it?

[noiseboyuk]

Indeed, it doesn't sound worthy of a major (chargeable?) version change.

It's not amazing, but for me a better update than 6 was from 5 - if that full-screen browser is well implemented.

I have about 150 player libraries (many more are not installed), and probably a similar amount of non-player ones. Being able to properly tag and browse them will be a big deal.

kmonkey - the big thing I think NI should do with Kontakt is to have a proper instrument builder assistant. So many products now have pointless assistants, this chore could actually do with one. Intelligent auto-mapping and easily building a functional GUI.

[chk071]

Hopefully there’s more to it than that, looks poor.

Indeed, it doesn't sound worthy of a major (chargeable?) version change.

The most requested feature I read about here, and people are like again. Man, tough crowd these days... tough crowd.

News flash though: Nobody forces you to upgrade.

[Cochrane]

I am curious, what do people expect at this point from the sampler behemoth such as Kontakt 7?

I can suggest: complete VST3/AUv3 implementation enabling MIDI ports B-C-D in plugin (for having 64 parts for each instance in DAW) and other specific things of the new plugin formats (per-note automation, etc.).

[dellboy]

My number one request for a sampler, is that it samples. If they can't manage that, then at least implement some form of drag and drop. Although I own Kontakt I never use it, I just use the the one in Studio One, which is far more user friendly and has both drag and drop and a sampling facility.