Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler

Your tracks cover so much ground; they’re dynamic both in the material and in the production. Even down to the fine details, such as the string machine pad at the end of “Equinox.” "Kontakt, baby! I am like a Native Instruments commercial. Their samples are great. Those strings are one-shot audio samples. Just little bits in an extended line you can bring in as sample players or in audio and crossfade and do different things to extend them longer if you want to build pads."

At 58:40 deadmau5 mentions that he uses Native Instrument's Kontakt. "Man, Native Instruments Kontakt, that old VSL library man I still use it. I love it."

Avicii can be seen using Kontakt for string sounds in a studio session video.

Pause around 1:34 and you can see zedd's screen and it says kontakt in the working sample.

At the 30:12 mark in 'Nicky Romero Making Toulouse In The Studio With Future Music': "Anyway I have, like, string plugs... which are from Kontakt, because they always have, like, the nice sounding stuff."

Alesso mentions using drum kits from Kontakt, particularly in the making of his track "Years".

When asked if he uses a drum sampler or drags audio straight into his DAW, Rob Swire (of Knife Party) says that it depends. He mostly goes the audio route, but occasionally uses Kontakt if he needs to heavily manipulate samples.

In [this article](http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/in-pictures-flumes-sydney-studio-597256/2), there is a photo of Flume's screen running Abelton live, and track 47 indicates that he uses Kontakt 5.

At 0:48, one can see KONTAKT 5 on Sebastian's screen.

Laidback Luke posts a photo to Instagram (Jan 2015) of an Ableton Live DAW session, with Native Instruments Kontakt Sampler open in the top left corner of the screen. He says, "I know I don't post it often but I still enjoy this view on a daily bases! #Studio #Ableton #Kontakt" The instrument he has selected is [Big Fish Audio Electri6ity](https://equipboard.com/items/big-fish-audio-electri6ity).

Deorro is using Kontakt's Berlin Concert Grand sound for a remix: "So @staticrevenger wants me to give the remix a Coldplay sound. Static wants Coldplay, Static gets Coldplay."

at 21:47 you see he uses kontakt 5

"I love...Native Instruments' Kontakt."

"I know it's not a synth as such, but Superior Drummer is massively important to our sound. As is the Kontakt sampler."

At 1:12 he shows kontakt 5

Is it seen on the screen 3LAU is using Kontakt for the piano in the acoustic version for How You Love Me. And due to the recency, it is very likely it is Kontakt 5

This tweet from October 2015 shows that Mat Zo uses Native Instruments Kontact 5: "Kontact library buying day".

In this video, on the making of Jammu, by KSHMR, one can see Kontakt 5 at around 00:37.

@ 4:01 into the video Cazzette talk about Kontakt, and are seen using Scarbee Jay-Bass: "...We got this funky slap bass thing from Scarbee... We use Kontakt a lot when we want the authentic feel for instruments, for strings and acoustic bass, guitars, drums..."

At 3:45 you can see he use Kontakt at his computer screen,and he pick the New York Showcase Library!

In MusicRadar's interview with Depeche Mode's techs on the Delta Machines tour it was revealed that ""Sample wise we're using Native Instruments Kontakt and Massive a lot too. We're also using a lot of GMedia ImpOSCar and Synthogy Ivory for pianos too. There are some sounds you can't get with the synths, so we use the samples for those, but there's a lot we can do and we try to use the synths as much as possible. Stripped is a good example of that. The big lead sound is Massive and ImpOSCar all layered up to create that main riff sound." Martin is strictly using software when he puts his guitars down for older material, he has a Roland Edirol controller as well as an Access Virus both commanding Muse Receptors with various plugins loaded.

Owl City's studio, Sky Harbor Studios, uses many Native Instruments virtual instruments. The first of these is Kontakt.

”we were trying to find a different sound.”

in this video he is explaining his song i dont wanna go home

17:30 into the video, you can see Virtual Riot use Kontakt to input piano midi for his song, Lunar. This piano synth is the Grandeur and is a vst in Kontakt

"For live stuff I keep it pretty simple. Basically I use Ableton and a few third-party synths like Massive, FM8 and Sylenth. In the studio, I use Cubase, the Waves plug-ins. I'm a big fan of the iZotope plugins, Ozone and Alloy. Synth-wise: things like Massive, FM8 are sounding cool... and Sylenth for a lot of very cool analog sounds. It's kind of all the normal ones really! I use Kontakt quite a lot as well. "

In this video, you can see Charlie using Kontakt's Scarbee Mark 1 for his track, "Attention."

In a youtube video explaining their equipment, they say "The Kontakt Library is a must have for us" @ 4:57

12:05 - When asked about his favourite plugins, Ferry says after listing one other "I love Kontakt" 13:17 - "Im in love with Kontakt, all the stuff thats out there, Spitfire audio, output, heavy osty. I use a lot of that stuff"

At 0:39 you can see Zaytoven using Kontakt 5.

Minute 4:13 he uses the Kontakt sampler

On Four Tet's Bandcamp page for his new album, New Energy, there's a note at the bottom that says "Created on a laptop computer using Ableton Live software to control and mix VST plugins as well as manipulations of audio recordings. Plugins used for sound generation include Omnisphere, **Kontakt**, Dexed and Arturia V Collection. "

Mentioned in the list of equipment he used on Foley Room

"I use Kontakt quite a bit and use a lot of its internal libraries"

kontakt is on this list

In his reddit AMA, Doctor P say he uses the following "instruments: massive kontakt battery nexus diva korg legacy collection minimoog processing: fabfilter pro q camel phat waves C1 waves SSL comp SPL tube tech izotope ozone wow i never realised how small the list of my plug ins would be"

On this Facebook Q&A, Alaa Abdessalem asked: "Heyy All DJs... What Plugins do you use for pads ?" to which Andrew Rayel replied: "Nexus, Kontakt"

"Kveikur’s production is the result of massive overdubbing (in Logic), Native Instruments Kontakt."

Junkie XL tweeted about his 3,800 track template by saying, "Homemade libraries for Kontakt... Together roughly 1 TB in Sound design instruments... #iFilmscoring"

On the top PC monitor

The plugin can be seen in a old livestream that haywyre did at 9:24 even ythough this was 3 years ago he probably still uses it very heavily.

In Illenium's AMA, a user asks which three plugins he would limit himself to. He replies with "Sylenth, Kontact, and Massive".

In response to a tweet asking "What's one of your favorite/go to plugins for your sounds? Any type?@wymanofficial @DimitriVangelis", Dimitri responds with "Omnisphere, Kontakt and Reaktor!" Given the recency of this tweet, it's a reasonable assumption that they're using the most recent version of Kontakt.

Throughout Varien's Youtube video, instances of Kontakt 5 appear in the channel strips for his song "Morphine". Additionally, at the 59 second mark he opens an instance of Kontakt and says "I've got my Kontakt 5 here, Kontakt 5 is where I have all my fancy synths and, y'know, choirs, strings, organs, blah-blah that you love so much about the Varien sound, it's all in here..."

"Session horns in kontakt..."

In minute 26:47 of this movie you can see the plugin.

in this picture you can see 7Skies showing off a synth he made for Kontakt (you can se he's running it in Kontakt 5 because the label underneath it says Kontakt 5)

One of the tracks in "Murder" shows Kontakt 5 in the track name as seen in a production clinic Lido did at Berklee.

Mentioned by Hellberg in "The Girl"'s official Splice project annotations (released May 1, 2015). > Piano Chords: The whole project started from the chords. I had written the chord progression of the entire track before I did anything else in the track. The piano is Alicia's Keys in Kontakt 5. Not much else on there I think except a ValhallaRoom reverb that I use a lot. > Piano Bassnotes: I separated the lower notes from the the rest of the piano chords because I wanted them to be much more reverb-y than the higher notes which are pretty dry and unprocessed. The lower notes are also played by another VST than the higher ones, the lower one being TruePianos and the higher ones being Alicia's Keys in Kontakt 5.

At 00:10 you can see him using Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler as VSTi for the Piano

if you look at channel 23 you can see vaguely that the channel is named Kontakt 5

At 1:27 In this video, Matoma says, "For the guitar sound I'm using a plugin called Kontakt from Native Instruments. I think that's a real powerful plugin." On his screen, Kontakt 5 can be seen.

At 17:45, SeamlessR has Kontakt 5 open.

In this Tweet, Tobu can be seen responding to a fan's question regarding the plugins he uses for FL Studio. Tobu mentions that he uses Kontakt, among a few others.

"We’ve got our whole library of samples loaded into Kontakt".In this interview, Martin Doherty confirms that he uses Kontact when producing.

According to [this interview](http://blog.liveschool.net/mr-bill-qa/), Mr. Bill uses Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler.

It ended up being quite flexible, because we got him to do dynamic multisamples of each kit that we got [drummer Paul Kodish] to play, and then loaded that into Kontakt, and had both the live recorded audio and the audio from Kontakt coming out of about 32 different channels into 32 groups, and we just mixed them from the groups. So any time if we played something and we were changing the song, at any point we could just switch the live drums out and play it in Kontakt. It was quite cool mixing through the groups, because you couldn't even tell that it was switched. Literally, it just sounded like the same take.

During the Delta Machines tour, DM's keyboard tech Paul Eastman informed MusicRadar... "Sample wise we're using Native Instruments Kontakt and Massive a lot too. We're also using a lot of GMedia ImpOSCar and Synthogy Ivory for pianos too. There are some sounds you can't get with the synths, so we use the samples for those, but there's a lot we can do and we try to use the synths as much as possible. Stripped is a good example of that. The big lead sound is Massive and ImpOSCar all layered up to create that main riff sound."

In this Facebook photo, Eddie has opened an instance of NI Kontakt. On the top of the window, it specifies that it's version 5.

Kontakt 5 can be seen very briefly at 0:17.

Kontakt can be seen in the second row down, second picture from the right in this post to The Bloody Beetroots' official Tumblr.

Sigma can be seen using Native Instrument's Kontakt 5 at 9:47 of their production masterclass.

At 6:14 Ski Beatz says"...With Kontakt, a little piano some live guitar, y'kno just to give it some extra eghhh." [This article](http://www.theproducerschoice.com/products/ski-beatz-limited-edition-drum-module) confirms this as Kontakt 5 specifically.

Throughout the video, Droptek can be seen using Contact 5.

Scooter uses Native Instruments Kontakt

"Opening Kontakt has made it into my top five startup rituals for creating music. It's right up there with turning on the computer and downing a shot of espresso."

Mesto is seen using Kontakt 5 at 26:08.

Grey says their favorite synths are Omnisphere, Serum, and Berlin Strings. From their Reddit Q&A. (Berlin Strings is a Kontakt Library)

If you Look at his mixer, you can see that one of the tracks says Kontakt 5. I suppose it could be something else, but come on.

last track 4 the EP almost done

In this source, Panda Eyes uses Kontakt.

exclusive the upbeats interview for russian dnbarena: question 6: what kind of software and hardware do you use in studio? upbeats: ....logic, our primaries is: kontakt, vanguard, albino,Amplitube ? Guitar rig. what about hardware- only one gear we used everytime it's our sound interface motu828 also we have few synthesizers . like old juno or korg legacy, but we don't use that last time

Skip >>> 26:19 When asked about the programs Hillsong Young and Free use, Alexander Pappas explains which plugins are preffered by their music producers.

At 3:25, Daniel opens Kontakt 5.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a license for Kontakt 5.

What software are you using in Logic? "I love what Native Instruments do and you can't go wrong with Komplete. I love using Massive and Kontakt, they get used every single day. Omnisphere is massive for me as well, but the only other thing I'll use is Logic's built-in EXS24 sampler, which is a godsend for programming all my drums."

In this Drip Q&A he answers the question what plugins do you use "Plugins: Mostly... - UAD (all their stuff) - Kontakt - Razor - Omnisphere - impOSCar2 - Trash 2 - Fab Filter Limiter"

At 02:08 of this Livestream, Approaching Nirvana can be seen using Kontakt 5 to make studio drums sounds.

On 54:59 Kontakt 5 can be clearly seen on his Pro Tools session.

Visible at 4:12 in this video.

When asked about which VST plugins they use, Seeb respond with "Our main ones are Sylenth, Massive, Diva, Kontakt 5, Omnishpere and Spire."

He says on tumblr that he uses this plugin.

Wezol uses Kontact for the piano in his track, as seen in this video.

At 4:12 in this video for [Maschine](https://equipboard.com/items/native-instruments-maschine-studio), DJ Toomp talks about Kontakt integration with Maschine "When it comes to using Komplete, Mostly I want Kontact and that's where I pull up most of my sounds, as far really building my foundation. It's incredible that you can actually pull it up on Maschine, without having to open anything else 'cause everything is right here integrated. That's definitely friendly, I love that."

Brian use a large libraries in Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler.

At 4:41, Gammer refers to using Kontakt for string samples.

Can be seen being used at 20:58.

"We use the kontakt filters and set up a modulation for cutoff, resonance and envelope, as well for the pitch. then we usually play around , add distorted and modulated layers to it and group everything to make it sound one in the end."

Eekkoo 4 punten 1 jaar geleden 1:59 FXpansion's Etch. It's a custom-made Kontakt instument.

At 12:23 Hayden says he used Kontakt 5 forgot the library. And said he used it for the breakdown of weigh home which was string ensemble

In this Facebook picture, one can see Basto using Kontakt 5 in his Logic session.

In this video at 8:40 Billain mentios how he uses Kontakt to rearrange sounds.

in this intagram video of D.O.D instagram account (@dj_dod), you can see there's Kontakt in the end of the video, D.O.D use it as a sampler for his voice. "#Temper is OUT NOW on @mixmashrecords exclusively on @beatport! I sampled my voice to celebrate! Link to download is in my description :-)"

"I do use Kontakt instruments, though, so I guess that counts as 'samples'." - [Icicle](http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/icicle-talks-dnb-production-the-universe-and-everything-618402).

At 1:34 Jonas shows the plugin Kontakt

When asked what his favourite synth was, on [Ask.fm](http://ask.fm/trivectamusic/answer/127428397388), Trivecta replied, "Probably a tie between Sylenth, nexus, and Omnisphere. Spire too lately. And Kontakt!"

In multiple Q&A's, Luka Van Der Wurff (Facebook user) asks Ryos: Which ones bro? He said Kontakt 5.

In this image we can just about make out the plugins "Kontakt 5", "Kontakt 5 8out", and "Kontakt 5 16out" in the plugin browser.

Ramzoid explains how he got it at the start of the video and starts using it at 1:06

Listen on the equipment page of artist's website, also seen in studio photos and interview videos. Version number is not confirmed.

In this video, one can see Ray Volpe using Kontakt 5.

At 24:21 when talking about strings, Kontakt is brought up and Throttle says "On top of this lead I built some crazy strings and they're just Kontakts"

At 9:40, Rogue can be seen opening up and instance of Kontakt for his strings.

confirmation at 0:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A2Rtmpmdbw

confirmation at 4:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZq4n2FIjVE

Explaining how he created his lead sounds

In his YouTube channel description, OMNI lists the software he uses to produce music. Find his channel and go to "About" to see. "Instruments include; Ableton Live, NI Massive, NI Absynth, NI FM8, reFX Nexus, Sylenth, Isotope Ozone 5, NI Kontakt"

> "Go up to the top where it says 'Channels'. Click that, go to 'Add One' and you'll notice that you have this list. Your list probably looks a lot different than mine because I have a bunch of third party software installed." Among this list is Kontakt 5.

DJ Pain 1 explains and shows his use of Kontakt, specifically the "Cinematic Guitars" expansion, in this video.

"VST Plugins: Sylenth1, Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5, Massive, FM8, Addictive Drums, Addictive Keys, Harmor, Toxic Biohazard"

Ian says "Kontakt" is his 808 of choice 41:16 into this video.

In Steinberg Studio Sessions Season 2 Episode 9, at 24:54 Keiron McTernan says that "what i generally do is to put that into Kontakt" followed a large view of the computer screen where Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler can be seen.

Gaurav Dayal can be seen using Native Instruments Kontakt 5 with the [RiG Urban Workstation](https://equipboard.com/items/big-fish-audio-rig-urban-workstation) kit in this instructional video on chord construction.

In This Video Disco Fries Uses Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler To Get Rid of Noise in Productions.

Unprecedented power, a vast instrument library, effects and an advanced sampling framework plus deep editing capabilities.

Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Software Sampler

Used to automate the pitch of the strings on "Solo", as stated by mix engineer Mark Ralph in this November 2018 *Sound on Sound* interview. > “The main treatments on some of the Bollywood strings come from the Valhalla VintageVerb, the SoundToys Little AlterBoy and the Cableguys ShaperBox. We could have asked the string players to do those pitch slides, but because we wanted things to sound slightly synthesized we used a combination of pitch-bend automation in NI Kontakt, when we resampled them, and Little Alterboy to do this. Instead of going smoothly between notes, it bends up to the notes, and this plug-in is really good for automated pitch shifts like that."

This Plugin can be seen a couple of times (from 0:00 to 5:00) in this Facebook video, uploaded by the artist himself.

Seen in the video.

Razer Music lists Burns as using Komplete. Given that the website was created in September of 2015, he probably uses version 5.

At around 24:53, AVINOID has Kontakt open.

In this interview, he says that he used KONTAKT in 2009.

This plugin can be seen at 20:53.

This sampler is brought up and is used for a bass. "Because I was at my house, not my studio, I had to get a bass sound up, which I used Kontakt. Which is of the Rickenbaker bass sound which is amazing, I use it all the time" - 3:38

"i used it for it's recorded library packs and also use it sometimes as a sampler !"

It's going to be a long session tonight.

"Heyho! The Baritone is from the Kontakt Library .. and the Accordion is from Nexus!"

"6 Kontakts" hm... now just need to know what libraries.

Kontakt is one of the best software samplers.

Q: Do you have a favorite program/instrument to use for creating drones? A: (Mebitek) Native Instruments and Kontakt.

showing on his laptop

Used to recorded the Spiritual Energy and Sailing to the Edge.

This Plugin can be seen at 0:54 in this YouTube video, uploaded by Future Music Magazine.

for lot's of soft instruments

Samplers: Akai MPC3000, Akai S3000 (2), Akai S3000XL (2), Akai S6000, Akai X7000, Native Instruments Kontakt soft sampler;

At 3:00, Ray Keith opens Kontakt.

I use this VST for Cinematics passages of my songs.

USed a lot of kontakt In ThIs YeAh

Sublab opens Kontakt 5 at 46:41.

At 22:23 in this video, DJ Mad can be seen opening Kontakt 5.

> Geist, Omnisphere, AddictiveKeys pianos, M tron, kontakt shit, other weird shit

You can see on the side Kontakt 5 being used in the video

The Kontakt 5 Software Sample can be seen open behind Megaphonix, as seen in this Instagram photo.

Visible throughout this video by Caddock.

Quote from 'Hypothermia EP' video's description

It's in the background

This plugin is being used to make strings and other instruments related, as it shows this Instagram video

"I also use Kontakt a lot. All other effects are mostly built in Ableton. I try to keep it all clean, and not clump things together."

"@NI_News Massive, Kontakt 5 And Guitar Rig 5 Are cool things"

Visible as a DAW track label at the start of this video.

This Plugin can be seen at 1:40 in this YouTube video, explaining how Cat Dealers work on their projects.

gearlist from official website

In the upper right corner, Kontakt 5 can be seen running Kontakt with a guitar library.

In the description of the video, Makkon lists Kontakt as his sampler. Judging by the date the video was uploaded, it can be assumed he is using Kontakt 5.

Visible as a track label and mixer label in this Twitter post of Bustre's DAW.

**GiblyB:** What’s your favorite VST/Plugin? **Draper:** kontakt (with all its sound expansions (mainly the pianos))

From an interview with Boom Gaspar and Josh Evans on Keyboard Mag. "The combination of the grittiness of a vintage B-3, the reliability and quality of the Nord Stage, and the flexibility of the Receptor and [Native Instruments] Kontakt allows Boom to have a good hybrid between vintage keyboard sounds and modern synthesis and expandability."

On the left screen, Kontakt can be seen, in this video on Store N Forward's Instagram.

Visible in this Instagram post.