Native Instruments updates Kontakt to v8.2.0

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.