- Developer: Native Instruments
- Category: VST sampler
- Version: 8.14.0
- Release Date: 22 October 2026
- File Size: 1.2 GB
- Formats: Standalone, VST3, AAX
- System Requirements: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Kontakt is a VST sampler and the industry’s leading instrument-building tool, serving as a gateway to the widest collection of sampled VST instruments available anywhere. Kontakt lets you find it, create it, and transform it.
v8.14.0 Release Notes:
Highlights: Further improvements and additions for the Side Pane Navigator, Browser and the Tools and Instrument Headers. Komplete UI updated to 1.10.
Overall Changes
- ADDED Final phase of the Instrument/Tool Header re-design (incremental changes like Voice, Tune, will continue over time)
- ADDED The Sidepanel, Overlay and Hardware Browsers now maintain sync and order states
- ADDED Improved Sidepanel Browser maintains Content and Preset lists separately (like Overlay) with dynamic adjustments
- ADDED Master Editor / Global Controls to Default View
- ADDED AutoSave and SavePatch to Default View
- ADDED Remove Leap tab in Browser (Leaps now found under Instruments)
- FIXED Crash when loading older Instruments in Kontakt versions higher than 8.11.1
- FIXED Occasional crash when selecting Instrument Header in Rack View
- FIXED Inconsistent product/preset naming in Instrument/Tool Header
- FIXED User interface of some older Instruments partially cut off
- FIXED Memory usage not shown in Classic View Header
- FIXED Screen flickering and GUI hangs in Cubase on Windows
- FIXED Sidepanel Browser would sometimes display no content
- FIXED Relocation of non-Player libraries was broken in projects containing multiple Kontakt instances
- FIXED Switching Snapshots could break the Audio Engine on certain Apple Silicon systems
- FIXED DAW processes kept, when Kontakt was loaded and DAW was closed
Builder Changes
- ADDED Komplete UI updated to 1.10
- ADDED Claude AI x Komplete UI Builder to generate and validate Komplete UI interfaces from Figma files
- FIXED Send to “Program Out” causes audio defects with a Tool in the chain
- FIXED Instruments with LFO modulators would not maintain DAW tempo sync
- FIXED Kontakt not releasing memory correctly after v6.3.2