Free Kontakt Libraries LAST UPDATE : Oct 31 2021
Kontkat Libraries are often insanely expensive BUT there are some free goodies nonetheless, so we browsed around the internet and compiled the ULTIMATE list of Free Kontakt Libraries.
This list will be constantly update it so make sure you bookmark this page so you won’t miss out a single thing.
check all the links below and don’t forget to share this list with your producer friends!
7 SKIES – Blue Kind Sounds
Link: Download 7 SKIES – Blue Kind Kontakt Instrument
Standalone-Music main man 7 SKIES is back on Tiesto’s label Musical Freedom, this time with the house smash Blue Kind.
The track’s main bass and lead come from analog and hardware synthesizers, Sowetans did what we do best, sampled the original sound and ran it through the same post-production chain that 7 SKIES himself used in the song, and we made 2 kontakt instruments that will allow you to play the exact same sounds that you hear in the original production.
Magnificence & 7 SKIES – The Drill Drop
Link: Download Magnificence & 7 SKIES – The Drill Drop
The Drill by Magnificence and 7 SKIES is a massive tune released on Tiesto‘s label Musical Freedom that has been supported by pretty much every dj in the scene.
Now you can use the EXACT sounds that 7 SKIES designed with his Virus TI
This Kontakt instrument features high-quality samples recorded and looped for neverending sustain. It offers layer 1 & 2 independent volume control, ADSR envelope control on both Amp and Filter, Cutoff, Resonance, and Filter Env control everything wrapped up in a beautiful and clear interface.
KSHMR & 7 SKIES – NEVERLAND LEAD
Link: Download KSHMR & 7 SKIES – Neverland Lead
KSHMR & 7 SKIES partnered with Standalone-Music and allowed us to sample all the layers from the lead of their festival banger “Neverland”.
The instrument comes with 3 different layers that can be tweaked and balanced, everything is wrapped up in a beautiful interface inspired by the track’s Artwork.
This is crazy,it’s probably the first time that a huge artist like KSHMR shares a custom made Kontakt Instrument to celebrate a release, and the best thing of it all, is that is absolutely free.
Acoustic Guitar – Pettinhouse Audio
Link: Download Acoustic Guitar by Pettinhouse Audio
Very realistic sounding Guitar library.
This instrument features very detailed release and fret noises, most likely one of the best free guitar Kontakt library in this list.
Palette – Primary Color
Link: Download Palette Primary Colors
How is this orchestral Kontakt library free it’s beyond me!
This is a free 1.3 GB that features strings, woodwinds, and brass ensemble.
Since this is supposed to be a demo version of their premium Kontakt instruments, this orchestral library has a limited set of articulations and a single microphone position, but the same 3 dynamic layers and up to 7 round robins.
The developers recorded the full range of each ensemble in unison, from lowest to highest note.
Instruments play together when their ranges overlap and drop out when they reach their limits.
The result is a rich, playable patch that’s natural, unscripted and full of life, instantly gratifying and perfect for quickly laying down ideas without sacrificing realism.
Signal Free By Output
Link: Download at output.com
Signal Free by Output is the free version of their famous “Signal” Library, a very organic sounding library perfect for texture and cinematic sounds. This free Kontakt library comes with 4 Sound sources, 2gb of content, 25 Pulse instruments, LFOs, Step, Arpeggiator, Looper™, Basic & Advanced modes and no time limit on Kontakt (Full version)
This is definitely a must have for every producer out there!
Orchestra Chords & Sustained String by Sonuscore
Link: Free Orchestral Chords & Sustained Strings by Sonuscore
These two free Kontakt libraries are AWESOME!
If you love the warm and massive sound of a full symphonic orchestra, but premium strings Kontakt library cost too much, Sonuscore is giving away these new Kontakt Orchestra Libraries totally free!
The library sounds very warm and has an impressive sound for being a free library.
The Kontakt instrument interface is straightforward to control, and each interface comes with only one knob.
Playing notes in Low-velocity triggers major chords, and high-velocity triggers minor chords.
In the Sustained String Chords library, the mod allows you to control dynamics, mix sustain and tremolo chords.
Both libraries let you play low, mid and high strings separately or play colossal epic chords altogether.
The interface is beautifully simple and straightforward.
These are definitely some of our two favorite free Kontakt libraries out there.
Must have instruments to take your production to the next level, for free.
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Orchestral Rise Builder by HPA
Link:Download Orchestral Rise Builder
This free orchestral Kontakt library is nothing short of amazing!
It serves a purpose and one purpose only, which orchestral rises.
And it does it WELL!
Recorded with a full orchestra in a traditional scoring stage environment, Orchestral Rise Builder makes creating a massive crescendo or epic finale a breeze.
The Orchestral Rise Builder is laid out in mapped keyboard sections of long, medium, and short risers, each containing full orchestra, strings only (arco and trem), brass only, and woodwinds only regions. With every mapped note being a uniquely recorded take of the same length, one has the ability to create a custom riser comprised of only the certain sections, or go all in and create a thundering rise of multiple takes together (with zero phasing)!
Ronroco Free Guitar Library by Samplephonics
Link:Ronroco Free Guitar Library by Samplephonics
This free Guitar Kontakt Instrument is Recorded through an incredible setup at 80 Hertz Studios in Mancheseter in their stunning live room and played by world music expert Dominik Johnson.
This stunning Kontakt sample library and virtual instrument contains playable picking grooves, textures and one shot samples all with 5 mic positions and on board mixer.
Everything is wrapped up in a beautiful and easy to use interface that is a pleasure to look at.
Total Composure Orchestra
Link: Total Composure Orchestra
Total Composure Orchestra is a full Free Kontakt orchestral library created using only samples that are in the public domain making use of Kontakt’s scripting capabilities to greatly enhance the playability.
Although (understandably) the quality is far from other Kontakt orchestral libraries such as Spitfire or Symphobia, this is a neat library to have, especially if you need something fast and simple and you don’t need care about having the most “truthful” result.
On top of it all, the samples used this free library are in the public domain, which means they can be used freely for your own projects.
Aurorror By Fluffy Audio
Link: Aurorror by Fluffy Audio
Aurorror is a horror cinematic and hybrid free Kontakt library derived from Fluffy Audio’s famous Kontakt library Aurora.
Despite it being a stripped down version of a premium Kontakt instrument, this free library still delivers on usability and sound quality, making this a handy tool that provides excellent results with impressive sound quality.
Aurorror comes with more than 25 unique sound sources, 13 different modulators, an arpeggiator and polystep modes.
The instrument allows you to layer up to 3 sounds, each one with its own set of parameters that can be adjusted independently from other layers to better shape your sounds.
The Presets can then be easily saved via the Kontakt menu.
Free Fall by Soundethers
Link: Free Fall by Soundethers
This is a fantastic free Kontakt library perfect for textures, deep and evolving sounds for ambient, soundtracks, underscores, chillout, IDM, glitch and more.
It comes with 18 presets that you can customize and save.
This Kontakt instrument offers four pages of parameters to tweak your sounds.
Main Engine, where you can control layers volume, filter along with its types, envelope as well as cutoff and resonance, amp envelope (ADSR) and pitch envelope.
Effect Engine, where you can add reverb, delay distortion and more.
Rythm engine, to create exciting patterns with the arpeggiator.
And output engine.
This is a very in-depth Kontakt library that will especially come handy when working on breakdowns that needs just that extra background sound that fills the space and ends up making all the difference.
Dark Drones by Sun.io
Link: Dark Drones by Sound.io
Dark, scary and BIG sounding.
This free Kontakt library is a collection of 43 handcrafted drone that features dark and cinematic sound effects.
The interface is straightforward and allows you to quickly access eq, volume, tune and some effects like distortion and flanger.
Vintage Toy Tamburine by Sample Hero
Link: Vintage Toy Tamburine by Sample Hero
One of the simplest yet useful free Kontakt libraries out there!
How many times have you struggled with finding the right tambourine loop that would just sound right and especially in sync?
This Kontakt library is A deeply and exquisitely sampled Vintage Toy Tambourine, captured to perfection with a stereo-pair of large-diaphragm Neumann microphones through a Universal Audio pre-amp.
This antique tambourine is made of a thin unknown metal with only 3-pair of “rusted” jingles and will absolutely set your compositions apart from the rest! It’s super useful, locks perfectly to your songs tempo and has the unique sound of a trashy vintage toy tambourine.
Gombulator by Fine Cut Bodies
Link: Gombulator by Fine Cut Bodies
One of the free Kontakt libraries we are most in love with, due to its particular sound and uniqueness.
Gombulator is a free Kontakt instrument based on a rare portable synth from the early ’80s. The Yamaha PSR-15 has six preset sounds plus a set of drums, all of which were meticulously sampled before arranging them into the twisted interface of Gombulator.
The interface looks like a simple image at first but both the moon and the water allow you to interact with the sound.
The Hipster’s Bongos
Link: The Hipster’s Bongos
Yes I know what you are thinking, and No, we are not joking.
Out of this free Kontakt libraries list, this is probably the funniest library we listed.
This is a multisampled pair of the most terribly authentic sounding Hipster’s bongos.
You have Open and Slap ‘tones’ for both the high and low bongos, and a button for an optional coffee shop atmosphere, and most importantly.
The ‘Annoyingness’ control increases the frequency of fully authentic Hipster comments from none to MANY comments.
The ‘Mistakes’ dial controls the frequency of missed-hits, duff notes, scrapes and accidents.
We have mixed feelings about this Kontakt library but we can’t deny the fact that the concept is hella funny, at the same time however, sequencing your own bongos comes in handy sometimes.
Freelodica by Wavesfactory
Link: Freelodica by Wavesfactory
Freelodica is a a high quality melodica instrument and free Kontakt library by Wavesfactory.
The instrument was recorded with two different microphones (positioned close and far) which can be mixed together or played separately. Both microphones have additional stereo width controls. There are three round robin variations per note and the instrument also features two different tuning settings: the original tuning and the digitally tuned version of the samples.
The GUI for this free Kontakt instrument, features additional performance controls which include an attack-release volume envelope, breath control and key noise volume. The range of the original instrument can be extended by one octave and a half.
It is also worth mentioning that Wavesfactory offers a wide selction of free Kontakt libraries on their website so make sure you stop by their Free Kontakt Instruments page.
3 free guitar libraries by Indiginus
Link: 3 free guitar libraries by Indiginus
Let me get straight to the point here.
If you can’t afford premium guitar Kontakt instruments, You NEED these 3 free Kontakt Libraries!
This pack comes with a Lead Guitar which adds a harmony at higher velocities for creating double note pitch bends.
Strum Maker : 4 chord variations per scale step
Double Track Guitar : 2 different picked guitars are combined and hard-panned in one instrument to simulate “Double-tracking”, a recording technique where the same part is played twice to create a fuller sound.
Djemko Epic Drum Ensemble by Supreme Samples
Link: Djemko Epic Drum Ensembleby Supreme Samples
Free Epic Drums Kontakt Library that came about by pitching and layering a Djembe.
This Library is surprisingly epic and cinematic for a free product and offers 10 velocity layers, 10 Round Robin layers, and a simple Kontakt interface.
A couple of exciting features are the ability to modulate the pitch based on the velocity value which results in a nice “talking” drum effect and the “More Drums” feature which lets you sound like a whole ensemble with one finger!
Very fun to play with.
The Leeds Town Hall Organ
Link: The Leeds Town Hall Organ
If you’re looking for an epic organ sample library, download this one right away. Samplephonics have done an amazing job at sampling this unique instrument and releasing one of the best free Kontakt libraries ever when it comes to Organ samples. It sounds magnificent and the fact that it is released as a freebie is absolutely mind blowing.
Bigcat Instruments GM MiDi Instruments
Link: Bigcat Instruments GM MiDi Instruments
This is the sound set that midi files use to recreate music, soundfonts traditionally revolve around them and if you get 128 voice keyboard these are generally the voices it has.
It is a standard to make sure that when Instrument 1 is called for it is always Acoustic Grand Piano and not bagpipes or a car crash.
These 128 Free Kontakt Libraries bring back the beauty of old fashion sounds from the 90s and early 2000s.
Amore Grandpiano by Precision Sound
Link: Amore Grand Piano by Precision Sound
Free Kontakt Library of a Yamaha grand piano, close miked in stereo and kept it small, under 200 MB.
The 3 page GUI is intuitive and easy to understand with controls for decay, EQ, IR reverb, Delay and Keyboard response.
Candlestick Kontakt Library
Link: Candlestick Kontakt Library
21 Free Kontakt Presets from recording an old Candlestick.
The samples were made using the Candlestick metal and wooden parts played by fingers and nails.
This Instrument offers 5 Round Robin layers which is impressive for a free Kontakt Library.
Egyptian Darabuka Kontakt Library
Link: Egyptian Darabuka
This is a sample Free Kontakt library of a Darabuka.
Recorded with 4 dynamic layers per articulation and with 2 dynamic layers for the rolls. The instrument doesn’t have any RRs, but you’ll find that there are enough articulations and velocity layers to create a fairly realistic performance with it.
Tape KPR-77 Drum Kontakt library
Link: KPR-77 Korg Drum Machine
Tape KPR-77 Free Kontakt Library serves up over 280 free drum samples (recorded on to 1/four” analogue tape) from the Korg KPR-77 drum machine.
It comes with 3 kits each one containing 127 Drum Samples recorded using different techniques, from clear tape to saturated tape and by running the samples thru different outboards.
Shortnoise by VST Buzz
Link: Shortnoise by VST Buzz
Out of all these free Kontakt Libraries, this is probably the bigger one, with over 300 instruments and 150 multis (Arps, pads, basses, keys, synths and sound FX), you’ll never find yourself short of sounds to use.
This library is full of Electronic Grooves, Arpeggiated Sequences, Manipulated Synths, Cinematic FX, Unique and Expressive Performance Patches.
Epic Trailer Sounds by Generdyn
Link: Download at Audioimperia
This is the perfect trailer instrument when it comes to free Kontakt libraries for these specific field.
Produced by Australian composer and sound designer Joshua Crispin, better known as Generdyn, who also produced other best selling bestselling trailer Kontakt Libraries. One thing is for sure, You will not be disappointed!
Ancient Voices by Embertone
Link: Ancient Voices by Embertone
When you are talking about great free Kontakt libraries, you must speak of Embertone.
These guys create some of the most fun, unique and useful Kontakt libraries in the market and their quality is always top notch, and even in this case, they didn’t disappoint.
Ancient Voices is a fantastic All-Male Chamber Choir Kontakt instrument with outstanding quality and impressive articulations.
Mod-wheel controls the dynamics of the voices.
You can switch between a true legato or a poly mode and you also get two adjustable mic positions.
Getlow – Analog Sounds For Modern Electronic Dance Music
An EDM kontakt Library of over 330 Presets, Fully NKS Compatible, Used by the likes of Tiesto and KSHMR, Designed Specifically for Electronic Music, and much much more
