
In addition to the free Kontakt Player and free Reaktor player, they make many other great products. I’m honored that he thought enough of the piano to convert it and thankful for his work in cleaning up the samples.Native Instruments is one of my favorite Software Synth companies. Jeff from Critical Vibrations ran the samples through a de-noise filter and removed a 60-cycle hum. Any sound becomes an instrument (of sorts). Kick up the A Pad Kontakt instrument and there is your new pad with fiddley EQ, Reverb and Envelope Knobs on.

Name any wav file “A Pad.wav” and drop it into the A Pad directory replacing the public domain demo sound from OLPC. Looking at all the cool pad sounds scattered around the web it struck me, why not just make a simple drop a pad into this and it will play Kontakt instrument.

Nine Flame Studios Instruments for Kontakt. These Saxophones are fully sampled in 3 velocity layers with 375 samples all told. The showpiece of this collection are the Iowa Saxophones sampled by University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios. Various sax instruments from public domain and creative commons samples. Also there are Pizzicato samples in 3 velocity layers and again roughly every third note but with 4 round robins and instrument sound effects for both arco and pizzicato. It has Arco samples up and down in 5 velocity layers and sampled roughly every third note. This instrument can be used commercially as long as credit is given to D. Consider this Kontakt version to be the same. Smolken is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Basses, Saxophones, Pianos, Guitars, Pads, all new and ready for any Kontakt user to be downloaded and used in their main productions. Bigcat Instruments has just released a great collection of many freeware sample libraries for Native Instruments Kontant 5.
