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Native Instruments Kontakt 8 v8.4.0 WiN-bobdule screenshot
bobdule | 20 May 2025 | 1.2 GB
With KONTAKT, you can sound like a snare drum, a symphony orchestra, or anything in between, from a universe of sampled instruments. It’s a simple sampler when you want it to be, and a deep sonic scripting laboratory when you need something more. The next generation of the world’s favorite sampling platform gives you new instruments and new features under the hood – so you can layer, link, stretch, and shape your sounds any way you can imagine.

8.4.0 — 2025-05-20
Minimum OS requirements: macOS 13, 14, and 15 (latest update), Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack).
OVERALL CHANGES.
ADDED Further analytics for Default vs Classic View usage from opt-in users
FIXED Crash when removing Instrument and switching Pages
FIXED Crash when clicking Activate Demo
FIXED Instrument Sidepane Navigator Volume/Pan unresponsive to automation
FIXED Instrument Sidepane Navigator buttons were stealing Spacebar focus from DAW
FIXED Clicking File/New Leap inadvertently created two Leap instruments
FIXED Minimizing the Instrument Header of small-height instruments made them invisible in Classic View
FIXED Snapshot not highlighted when loading default preset
FIXED Default View rack not displaying instruments when switching from empty page of Classic View
FIXED Clicking Snapshot Previous/Next jumps to first Snapshot after reopening instrument GUI in DAW
FIXED 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 New ‘Text’ property to fetch $CONTROL_PAR_TEXT for KSPButton, KSPKnob, KSPSwitch and KSPValueEdit
ADDED Ability to get the info set via redirect_output() in previous script slots with new event parameters $EVENT_PAR_OUTPUT_TYPE and $EVENT_PAR_OUTPUT_INDEX and returning a new constant $OUTPUT_TYPE_NOT_SPECIFIED if output was not set/detected
ADDED Ability to disable automatic closing of Popovers in KUI
ADDED Customizable TextInput component to KUI
ADDED Main thread scripting with Komplete Script (can run even when GUI is not open)
ADDED Reduced wait times by not re-triggering KUI reloading if reloading is triggered during a reload
FIXED Changing the visibility of a ui_menu entry in KSP isn’t reflected in KUI
FIXED Divide-by-zero corrupts layout without error in KUI
FIXED Modifier inside declarative for/if can cause a cycle detection error in KUI
FIXED Hierarchical order of reactive updates not always respected in KUI
FIXED Feature toggle for experimental KUI features broken




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comments

  Member 6.05.2023 90
+29
"ADDED: Further analytics for Default vs Classic View usage from opt-in users"

Why add more spying for a viewing choice? Classic or Default view...on a switch...done.

I have to re-set this to Classic view every time it starts now.
  Resident 5.09.2017 178
+123
They realized there's a higher than expected people still using the classic view, and they don't really know why. So they add more analytics to understand what is making people choose that over the new one. It's opt in and normal for today's standards. You would be surprised with how much they track on videogames, and it's not even opt in.
  Member 10.03.2025 24
+15
NI: We made a thing pretty by moving all the visual references of quick access to often used functions previously displayed such with neither shortcuts nor relying on memory you could see and access most any content or function with one click. Why do they keep using the not as pretty but functionally superior workflow, why!

...how I'm imaging that meeting went anyway.

Well, for me anyway. Also more of a loose file fella than a library user though.
  Resident 17.06.2016 1 805
+852
options interface
untick the full screen view at start.
  Resident 30.10.2012 55 882
+979
Does this version have the builder tools?
  Resident 20.09.2017 17 355
+1917
you mean creator tools? if so, then yes it's there.
  Resident 24.10.2016 309
+54
Kontakt has always been problematic for me. It keeps losing addresses and has tons of updates with each version that comes out. I get very little or no use out of them. I just want to make music and not have to deal with the many problems or updates for eternity.
  Resident 3.01.2011 1 4603
+602
Thank You
  Resident 20.09.2017 17 355
+1917
Some of my libraries are missing/not detected in this release (Sample modeling libs, GGD Modern Fusion). I've tried rescanning using the Kontakt button, but the issue remains. However, they are detected just fine in Kontakt 7 and previous Kontakt 8 bobdule release (v8.3.0 rev2).

Wonder if anyone experience the same?
  Member 3.04.2024 21
+6
Didn't lose any libraries with this update but it has happened to me before. What MAY work is manually adding the library folder with the lower left cogwheel then rescanning with the kontakt button. (this is also the trick if you want libraries to appear with a different name)
  Resident 5.09.2017 178
+123
I've been having the same issue since Kontakt 8 dropped. Had Alt Grand disappear last week and I have no clue why, but I managed to add it back normally through the Kontakt button. When nothing else works, I usually delete the database and after it loads everything from scratch the next time I boot it, everything is back there.
  Resident 18.05.2011 162
+43
On windows, go to C/users/public/documents/Native Instruments/Installed Libraries

Delete the json file for those libraries, reopen Kontakt, it should see them. Solved it for me Just today
  Resident 20.09.2017 17 355
+1917
Awesome! I use the JSON cleaner on the Kontakt button. And it solved the issue. Thanks!
  Member 3.04.2024 21
+6
THAT is the folder I was looking for. Even after clearing registry entries and deleting .db3 databases, I knew there was another place they were hiding install info. THANKS!
  Member 1.09.2021 172
+5
Hi,anyone any clues why i dont have Native Instruments/Installed Libraries in that location?
i just have a folder called NI Resources in public documents ,and in there is database resources,database,dist database and image.
  Resident 20.09.2017 17 355
+1917
I also don't have that folder. That's why I use JSON cleaner on the kontakt button instead.
  Resident 2.03.2019 9 729
+748
ADDED Further analytics for Default vs Classic View usage from opt-in users


They can try to analyze all they want - none of my machines are inet connected so good luck with that.
  Resident 2.08.2022 3 248
+180
Thanks BOBBY. Again. You da man.
  Resident 25.07.2014 18 439
+2035
Thanks bob and hidera!
So how's performance in 8.4.0? Any breaking issues?
  Member 20.06.2021 344
+25
i really like the new Leap Custom Kit when you drag a audio file in the new gui and the Leap will open automatically. Its like a new sampler with some cool effects chain with the old mpc60etc. still there. When you click on the library button, the second view, drag audio file on and the new sampler comes to play.
  Member 2.10.2021 34
+8
Stupid question: Why is thing so f+*kg big? For sampling I"ve Shortcircuit which comes with a shitload of functions. Only Shortcircuit 2.x is 2-3mb, no more - compressed with UPX. This bozzo here no less 1gb. What the heck. Would be interesting to see a minimized version.
  Member 20.06.2021 344
+25
few features but the main kontakt is 159mb there are tools like chord, pattern, phrases. And lo Fi Leap custom kit and Piano Uno in common files/nativeinstruments.
  Resident 7.02.2009 1 872
+376
Not a stupid question at all, especially since v8.

One third of the installed Kontakt v8 disk size are example small libs that use the new features.
You can delete them safely. Don't remember where are they.

Another third roughly are the factory wav files used for IR cabs/convolution presets. Don't delete this
[2009] Sorry for my English. I'm working on it
[2017] I'm beginning to improve. Hell yeah, I'm a fast learner :D

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