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Native Instruments updates Kontakt to v8.2.0
12th February 2025
Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.2.0.
Kontakt Engine Improvements
Added:
- Patterns Tool - A new polyphonic step arpeggiator.
- Command + Click sets a parameter to its default value.
Fixed:
- Excessively long wait times when saving/loading DAW projects containing Kontakt.
- Corrupted user interface when loading certain older instruments.
- If hosted, Kontakt 8 would cause a crash when closing Komplete Kontrol 3.
- Blank user interface for Electric Keys Diamond, Phoenix, and Alicia Keys.
- Crash when Drag+Drop onto the Rack.
- User-saved Multis have incorrect Browser Bank Values.
- Erroneous warning message when importing Kontakt content with .ncw files.
- File type banner text could spill into the user interface if Kontakt is set to minimum size.
- Tempo sync issues between Kontrol S MK3 and Kontakt.
Improved:
- Use the modern (Vista and above) file open dialog on Windows when locating folders.
Leap Improvements
Added:
- Anonymous usage data tracking of Leap for opted-in users.
- Support for BPM and ID3v2 when importing samples to Leap.
- Replaced group/single text switches with buttons for better usability.
- Time sync parameter for Global FX.
Fixed:
- Changing sample rate breaks waveform visuals in Leap.
- Leap Macros and Save/Load of global presets would break after periods of inactivity in Logic Pro.
- Quickly bypassing the amp and releasing a key could cause hanging notes in Leap.
- Samples no longer lose sync when set to Legato Playback in Leap.
- Switching keyboard octave unexpectedly stops the latched voice in Leap.
- Time and pre-delay values in Send FX do not report automation correctly in sync mode.
- Changing global tonality in Leap was momentarily delayed, causing notes to briefly play in the incorrect key.
- Speeding Leap playback Up/Down will throw currently playing loops out of time.
- Leap Macros for Send FX do not update bi-directionally.
- Speed can no longer be set to 0% as this would cause no sounds to trigger.
- Playing one-shots in Legato Mode when quantized and in the same choke group can prevent voices from playing in Leap.
- Leap samples do not respond to MIDI pitch bend.
- Empty slots in Leap are inconsistently grayed out.
- Leap sample start/end points are not reset when replacing a sample.
- In classic engine mode, switching to non-ping-pong mode can cause a loop to play in reverse with the reverse button not active.
- Notes randomly not playing when triggered from the on-screen keyboard in Leap's Single Mode.
- Muzak Macro preset in Leap was saved with incorrect Delay and Reverb Macros.
- Toggling sync on/off in delay and reverb FX causes values to jump unexpectedly in Leap.
- Position indicator ring displays incorrectly when duplicating a sample in Leap.
- Grid is sometimes incorrect after duplicating grids in Leap.
- Replacing a file with modified start/end points can sometimes cause start/end points to not display in Leap.
- Start marker in Leap can sometimes disappear.
- Duplicating a REX file shows, but does not respect or use the start and end points of the copied sample.
- "Edit All Samples" in Leap doesn't work for Perform and Macro FX Toggles##.
Tools Improvements
Fixed:
- MIDI Note Off events not sent for the Chords Tool for notes not in scale.
Instrument Building & Scripting Improvements
Added:
- Komplete user interface updated to version 1.0.
- Noise options for the Wavetable Modulation Oscillator.
- Blend mode for Wavetable source module's Modulation Oscillator.
- API: Factory snapshot path to Lua (usually done via Reset → Instrument Options → Snapshots).
Fixed:
- Some MIDI CCs interpreted erroneously as CC 0, breaking KSP multi scripts.
- Stop writing library.json in binary format.
- Changes made when in mono instances of any stereo FX will not be reflected in the second instance when switching mono off via KSP.
- Crash in Wavetable Oscillator.
- KSP: dont_use_machine_mode() does not bypass TMPro polyphony limitations.
- API: get_instrument_options() doesn't work with encoded instruments.
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