Release year: 2023
Version: 7.5
Developer: native-instruments
Platform: Intel/Apple Silicon Universal
Tablet: Program cured [HCiSO]
System Requirements: macOS 11+
Description : Kontakt is a sampler from Native Instruments.
What’s New:
Lua API, new effects, browser improvements, builder features, bug fixes.
CHANGED Minimum supported macOS version is now 11.0
KONTAKT ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS
ADDED Seven new effects: Bite, Dirt, Freak, Raum, Twin Delay, Vibrato/Chorus, Wow/Flutter
IMPROVED Context menus now follow zoom scaling settings
IMPROVED Rendering quality of raster images in Native UI based instruments
IMPROVED MIDI files dragged out of Kontakt don’t have the copyright message anymore
IMPROVED NKG files are now visible in Files browser and also loadable or importable via double-click or drag and drop
IMPROVED Maximum number of host automation slots increased to 2048
FIXED Legato button did not work in any Tone/Time Machine mode except TMPro
FIXED Clicking on virtual keyboard when Kontakt was in Single view did not respect the MIDI channel setting of multiple loaded instruments
BROWSER IMPROVEMENTS
ADDED A button for loading the first preset directly from the instrument tile
ADDED Filtering by brand
ADDED Filtering by sub-bank
ADDED User-authored presets can now have sound and character type metadata edited in bulk via multi-selection
ADDED Warning dialog with a list of files that failed to import
FIXED Scroll position is set to zero when the result list is resized
FIXED Resizing the window no longer resets the result list selection
FIXED Folders beginning with “-” can now be imported
FIXED Content type does not update with the focused module slot
INSTRUMENT BUILDING AND SCRIPTING IMPROVEMENTS
ADDED Kontakt Lua API, enabled through the new Developer panel in Options dialog
ADDED Various options for showing or hiding incoming, script generated and ignored events in Mapping Editor
ADDED Source module’s playback mode can now be retrieved with $ENGINE_PAR_SOURCE_MODE getter
ADDED Option to copy sample end setting to all selected zones in Wave Editor
ADDED continue statement is now available in KSP
ADDED Real arrays can now be stored to and loaded from NKA files
ADDED Selection state of a zone can now be queried with $ZONE_PAR_SELECTED zone parameter, and a list of all currently selected zones can be retrieved with get_sel_zones_idx() command
ADDED set_map_editor_event_color() KSP command, which allows changing color of script-generated events in Mapping Editor, individually per script slot
IMPROVED Snap to value or zero crossing options in Wave Editor are now retained per instrument, rather than per zone
IMPROVED Internal modulator and modulation target KSP information is now always shown if Developer Options checkbox is enabled
IMPROVED TMPro polyphony can now be set to 0 via KSP, in order to match the range of the related parameters in Instrument Options->Voice Handling dialog
IMPROVED Snapshot files (.NKSN) can now be loaded from the File->Load… dialog
IMPROVED Reorganized Mapping and Group Editor context menus
IMPROVED Reorganized effect selection context menu
FIXED Boolean not operator would not correctly invert a boolean expression that is composed of only literals or constants
FIXED Function call stack would collapse entirely if exit statement was used at the beginning of user defined functions, rather than only exiting the currently called function
hello, will there be a windows version as well?