
Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.4.1.
Changes in Kontakt 8.4.1 (2025-05-26)
Added:
- Data Tracking about Default vs Classic View settings.
Fixed:
- File Menu (Load Recent) stays open if cursor is on hover after load.
- On MacOS some Content Libraries not found from external drives, due to wrong path construction.
Changes in Kontakt 8.4.0 (2025-05-20)
Overall Changes
Added:
- Further analytics for Default vs Classic View usage from opt-in users.
Fixed:
- Crash when removing Instrument and switching Pages.
- Crash when clicking Activate Demo.
- Instrument Sidepane Navigator Volume/Pan unresponsive to automation.
- Instrument Sidepane Navigator buttons were stealing Spacebar focus from DAW.
- Clicking File/New Leap inadvertently created two Leap instruments.
- Minimizing the Instrument Header of small-height instruments made them invisible in Classic View.
- Snapshot not highlighted when loading default preset.
- Default View rack not displaying instruments when switching from empty page of Classic View.
- Clicking Snapshot Previous/Next jumps to first Snapshot after reopening instrument GUI in DAW.
- Artwork for Tools, Leap, and some Combined content not displayed in navigator and on hardware.
Builder Changes
Added:
- 1960's tweed era amplifier FX DSP - Reverb Delight from Guitar Rig 7.
Added KSP:
- Ability to get the info set via
redirect_output()in previous script slots with new event parameters$EVENT_PAR_OUTPUT_TYPEand$EVENT_PAR_OUTPUT_INDEXand returning a new constant$OUTPUT_TYPE_NOT_SPECIFIEDif output was not set/detected.
Added KUI:
- New 'Text' property to fetch
$CONTROL_PAR_TEXTforKSPButton,KSPKnob,KSPSwitchandKSPValueEdit - Ability to disable automatic closing of Popovers.
- Customizable
TextInputcomponent. - Main thread scripting with Komplete Script (can run even when GUI is not open).
- Reduced wait times by not re-triggering KUI reloading if reloading is triggered during a reload.
Fixed KUI:
- Changing the visibility of a
ui_menuentry in KSP wasn't reflected in KUI. - Divide-by-zero corrupts layout without error.
- Modifier inside declarative for/if can cause a cycle detection error.
- Hierarchical order of reactive updates not always respected.
- Feature toggle for experimental features broken.




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