The license comes at a cost, though, and for many indie sound designers who make free Kontakt instruments, it doesn’t really make sense to pay the licensing fee. The license enables third-party libraries to work in Kontakt Player. It is because the company that created the free Kontakt library paid a licensing fee to Native Instruments. So why do these particular third-party sound libraries work in Kontakt Player? Both are free and both will work in Kontakt Player. There’s also the Jay Maas Signature Series Drums Lite Edition by Room Sound. One such example is the Kontakt Factory Selection library that is provided by Native Instruments and included in the Komplete Start bundle.Īs for third-party libraries, one recent example is The Free Orchestra by ProjectSAM. Some (only a handful, really) free Kontakt sound libraries can indeed work without interruption in Kontakt Player. However, the free Kontakt Player plugin can only load these free third-party libraries in demo mode. It will work just fine in the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt.
What’s important to understand here is that the Kontakt library you downloaded is free.
Kontakt Player demo mode in full glory – notice the big red DEMO notification.
