NI Kontakt samples

Impact Soundworks Sonic Forest A truly unique instrument that takes humble mallet & bowed timbres, and turns them into evolving electroacoustic textures with a custom granular ‘forest’ engine. Even non-sound designers will enjoy the evocative UI allowing you to morph, alter, and grow...

Boutique sound design instrument built from water-inspired sounds: mallets, synthetic elements, ambient textures, and percussive hits. With our custom granular ‘ocean’ engine, any note can be turned into an endlessly evolving electroacoustic texture. A visually stunning UI allows you to morph.

Our Newest Composition Tool!A great sounding affordable comprehensive tool for amateur and professional composersCovering all the essentials of the orchestra, Amadeus includes– strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, keyboards, guitars and more. Everything you need for creating quick sketches, orchestra.

Shakuhachi, the third release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a software instrument in Kontakt format.Singing sonorous intonation, deep yet delicate breathing, and a Japanese sound aesthetic spilling into the periphery: The shakuhachi — an instrument symbolic of Japan —...

SHO - Virtuoso Japanese SeriesSho, the fourth release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a software instrument in Kontakt format.The sho is free reed musical instrument and one of the three primary woodwind instruments used in gagaku court orchestra music. Consisting of 17 slender bamboo pipes.

Tsugaru Shamisen, the second release in the Virtuoso Japanese Series, is now available as a Kontakt instrument library. Sonica Instruments has painstakingly recreated every aspect of the revered tsugaru shamisen — the stirring percussive sounds, the powerful playing techniques, and the blazing...

Virtuoso Japanese Series KOTO 13, an exquisitely crafted virtual 13-string koto — the first release in our new Virtuoso Japanese Series of Kontakt instruments The 13-string koto is one of Japan’s most dignified traditional instruments. Capable of everything from elegant, single plucked notes to aggressive glissandos.

ACOUSTIC DRUMS THAT FEEL ELECTRONIC An old school drum machine with 21st century sampling techniques: round-robin samples, multi-channel sounds, generative sequencers. It features acoustic drums recorded in innovative new ways to achieve a warm, dry, chunky sound. There are no traditional velocity layers.

Soniccouture All Saints Choir 32 VOICE CHAMBER CHOIR A LEGENDARY ACOUSTIC All Saints Church, Tooting - a rich, clear acoustic that has graced recordings by Decca, Sony, and Deutsche Grammophon. In collaboration with The New London Chamber Choir, Soniccouture presents their most ambitious sampling project yet.

ARRAY MBIRA - THE GRAND THUMB PIANOThe Mbira is a folk instrument originally from Africa.Sometimes called a Thumb Piano, Sanza, or Kalimba, they are generally home-made and consist of metal tines attached to a piece of wood, which are plucked with the thumbs. They are mostly small, with a handful of notes.

SonicCouture Box of Tricks [3 DVD / Kontakt] IMOGEN HEAPS INSTRUMENT COLLECTION. CREATED FOR IMOGEN BY IMOGEN Every aspect of Box Of Tricks has been shaped by Imogen Heap. An exclusive selection of her instruments, sampled in detail and with custom scripts, effects, and tools; all designed the way she wanted to use them.

A FUNK ICON: THE D6 CLAVINET MODIFIED FOR SAMPLING BY SONICCOUTURE Hohner D6s are getting quite rare, because of their delicate, high-maintenance mechanical nature. Over a 12 month period we extensively restored and then modified our D6, which was a nice example in decent working order before we even started.

STUDIO DRUM MACHINES 15 vintage drum machines 180 Kits pro studio recordings 14 GB Library WHAT IF YOU RECORD DRUM MACHINES IN A PRO STUDIO? We wanted to combine classic drum machines ( 15, to be exact ) with the the organic ambience and warmth of studio recorded drums. So, we took a club PA to two different studios.

Soniccouture Geosonics [2 DVD] [Kontakt] SAMPLING PLANET EARTH Geosonics is a collaboration between legendary field recordist Chris Watson and Soniccouture. Hundreds of hours of recording time, in some of the worlds most extreme and inhospitable environments, combine to form a library of rare sonic artefacts...

Soniccouture Grand Marimba [Kontakt] Five Octaves Of Precision  When we decided to sample a marimba, we knew we wanted to find a 5 octave concert model. There’s something very special about the enormous bass notes of a full sized model. The Yamaha 6100 model, which was designed in collaboration...

CINEMATIC SOUNDSCAPE INSTRUMENT Recordings By Chris Watson 400 Presets 8 GB LibraryAURA, VIBRATIONS, ATMOSPHEREThe idea that certain places take on the weight of past events is familiar to all of us.Renowned field recordist Chris Watson has spent years collecting audio recordings from such places in...

Soniccouture Moonkits - MODERN BRUSHED DRUM KITS DUST, SMOKE & WARMTH Moonkits: a mission to explore the softer side of the drumkit. Brushes, but not only for Jazz. Also rods, mallets, tea sticks: anything that mellows the attack and allows the texture to sing out. Moonkits was intentionally recorded...

SCANDINAVIAN KEYED STRINGSFamiliar yet somehow different, the sound of the Nyckelharpa walks a delicate line. Dating from the middle ages, Nyckelharpa translates as ‘keyed fiddle’ in Swedish.The pitch of the notes is altered by pressing a wooden key, which frets the string. There are also 12 sympathetic strings.

Soniccouture Ondioline - 1950s FRENCH MONOSYNTH. FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF SYNTHS The Ondioline was invented in 1941, and produced in France throughout 1950s/60s. It was conceived by inventor Georges Jenny as a low cost Ondes Martenot; sharing the same lateral vibrato keyboard, with a knee-lever to shape volume.

ELEGANCE. BALANCE. RHYTHM.The Chinese Sheng, Laotian Khaen, and Japanese Sho are three very similar instruments with a common ancestor.  They have been traditionally made from bamboo, the aluminium of the east, since the 14th century BC.Sound is created by both inhaling and exhaling - as with a western mouth-organ.

HUGE VINTAGE SYNTH COLLECTIONFORGOTTEN SYNTH HISTORYDeep inside the history of synthesisers lurk some lesser known classics.Not the Prophets, the Jupiters or the Minis, but their clumsy and quirky siblings. Analogue pianos, funky organs, glassy digital boxes, vocal synths, and string machines.Now their time has come.

SonicCouture The Attic [2 DVD] [Kontakt] Do You Dream In Analogue? The Attic : a project to document and sample interesting, characterful instruments that may not always be the obvious choice when we think of classics.Instruments which, when added to a track, instantly add some special magic, even if...

TWO TINY PIANOS DDR Toy Piano: Found at Berlin's Mauerpark fleamarket, it has a wonderfully clanky, bell like tone with very loud, distinctive key-off sounds as the keys disengage. It was recorded with a spaced stereo pair of vintage Neumann mics. Grand Toy Piano: The Kawai 1106 Mini Grand Piano...

Soniccouture Vibraphone [2 DVD] [Kontakt] LIQUID METAL Essentially a mechanised, 20th Century variation on the classic metallaphone, the vibraphone adds a constant modulation to its resonator tubes by the use of motorised fans. The fans, or discs, cover the top of the resonator tube and spin in unison.

Sonicsmiths The Foundry [3 DVD / Kontakt] Sonicsmiths presents a new tool for composers and sound designers. Based in the Native-Instrument’s Kontakt engine, The Foundry is a sound design creation tool, drawing from over 15 thousand samples, 19+GB of sample content (12+gb compressed), and trillions...

“SonicXpansion is back with a crazy release for urban and electronic producers that are using Kontakt. Red Synergy is a high quality instrument for Kontakt with a powerful yet intuitive custom interface. This product is a labor of love, I had the privilege of being around from the very beginning...

True Legato and Rare Contrabass Flute TexturesA first in cinematic sampling, Brute Flute is a Contrabass Flute library like no other. Recorded in exceptional detail and capturing a range of cinematic textures, harmonic embellishments, explosive articulations and an expressive true legato, this wonderful...

Contemporary Soloists: Violin is the second instalment in our new range of instruments for Kontakt. Featuring unique and contemporary orchestral violin textures performed by virtuoso violinist and composer, Max Baillie, It is full of soul, emotion and raw character. Designed to fill a gap in the virtual violin market.

Saxophone Explorations is a unique sample library for Kontakt Player. Featuring abstract and aleatoric saxophone textures combined with a custom modular effects rig performed by virtuoso saxophonist and artist, Jay Reynolds, It is sublime, evolving and intense.Designed to fill a gap in the virtual instrument market.

An innovative collection of evolving percussion samples. Featuring a unique ensemble of instruments such as Orchestral Bass Drums, Taikos, Timpani, Gongs and Thunder Sheets. Perfect for creating dark cinematic soundscapes and atmospheres. The library was performed by world class percussionist Joby Burgess.