Free Kontakt player libraries

[bunjaboi]

i think something must have changed in the licensing fees or something because there are becoming more and more useful Kontakt PLAYER Libaries .

Well, NI's licensing page for Player libraries still lists some pretty high fees:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... licensing/

Since most of the free libraries listed here are for Kontakt Player 7, I would guess that NI has waived some fees on specific products in order to get more developers on board with developing for Kontakt 7. After all, there's really not much reason for users to upgrade to the new version unless there are libraries that require it. It's true that the player remains free and can be installed alongside Kontakt 6, but surely we'll be seeing more libraries requiring the full version of Kontakt 7 soon. Maybe that was even part of the deal.

But anyway, bringing it back to the spirit of listing free stuff, Sonokinetic has a new free Electro-mechanical Piano for Kontakt Player 7:

https://www.sonokinetic.net/products/contemporary/emp/

and also their Carousel organ, which still works in Kontakt 6 (Player and Full):

https://www.sonokinetic.net/products/in ... /carousel/

you already got that one cheers

[BKSchatzki]

i think something must have changed in the licensing fees or something because there are becoming more and more useful Kontakt PLAYER Libaries .

Well, NI's licensing page for Player libraries still lists some pretty high fees:

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I've been thinking about this business side of plugin development for a while. They outlays for a developer to get their plugins in front of people can be huge. But the potential benefits of getting the "hook" into a potential customer outweigh that.

If it's a promotional product, they charge €2,500 for 25,000 NFR serial numbers. That's €0.10 per. You only need to get 1% of people to each spend €100 on your products to break even on the licensing cost to NI. So if you have a large catalog and can successfully position the promotional product as a part of a larger product range, you're in good shape. And the truth is, you don't even need a 1% rate of conversion. You just need five "whales" to spend €500 or so, or 0.02% of people you give your key to. Starts to look like good business, and I can't fault anyone for it.

Anyway, I love me some free Kontakt libraries lol. But I'm very wary of tasting the free samples in the cheese aisle. Might walk out heavy on cheese and light on cash. That's why the Pianobook stuff is downright heroic in my opinion.

[bunjaboi]

https://sonixinema.com/collections/freebies

[bunjaboi]

keepforest few kontakt player freebies https://keep-forest.com/store/free

[bunjaboi]

can someone else post any , there’s a potential big library here

[PTV]

Sonokinetic - All the Legacy category is now permanently free, which includes: Vivace Legacy, EMP, Carousel, Sleigh Bells and Hurdy Gurdy. They're all compatible with Kontakt Player 7.
Sterzov Sampling now added a new Kontakt Player Freebie: The Creative ToolboX: Drums and Percussion. It's the first on a series of a complete free virtual band they are planning to release. Requires Kontakt Player 7.

[bunjaboi]

https://www.strezov-sampling.com/produc ... ssion.html

[cthonophonic]

I see that Straight Ahead Samples has a free piano for Kontakt Player (v6.5.2 and up).

https://www.straightaheadsamples.com/the-real-piano

It looks like a temporary giveaway, since the price is displayed as $29.99 normal, $0.00 currently. The countdown timer at the top of the page runs out around 1 day and 5 hours from now.

[cthonophonic]

Orange Tree Samples has their Indie Melodica for free (works with Kontakt Player 6.1.0 and up)

https://www.orangetreesamples.com/produ ... e-melodica

Looks like they are giving away a limited number (currently 954 left)

[mixyguy2]

A few Strezov freebies were mentioned, but here are all of them on one page
https://www.strezov-sampling.com/produc ... ebies.html

[McLilith]

The folks at Digital Sound Factory offer a free "lite" version of their Proteus Rack Library.



It requires version 7 of Kontakt Player, and it includes a collection sounds from the following vintage E-Mu rackmount romplers:

• Proteus 2000

• Mo’ Phatt

• Virtuoso

• Xtreme Lead-1

• Planet Earth

• Vintage Pro

Here's the link to the free lite version:
https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/product-category/format/free-examples/

Here's the link to the full version, for anyone who might be interested:
https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/pro ... teus-rack/

These Kontakt libraries were produced by the original E-MU sound and graphic designers.

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[McLilith]

Impact Soundworks offers a free Stratocaster guitar library that works in Kontakt Player v6.7. It's technically donationware, and you have to enter a price before you can download the product, but you can enter a price of zero if you want. The amount is totally up to you.

Shreddage 3 Stratus FREE

(They previously offered a free version that only worked in the full version of Kontakt, but they're now offering this updated version for Kontakt Player.)

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