Update of the popular sampler. Contact allows you to play and process previously recorded audio data – samples of musical instruments, sound effects, vocal tracks, etc. – but this is only a small part of the full range of its capabilities.
In Vkontakte, you can use ready-made instruments from a huge number of libraries from third-party developers or create your own virtual instruments, apply powerful built-in processing modules to their audio signals, build complex performance schemes with various modulation links.
Everything is possible – from the ultra-accurate recreation of real instruments to the creation of original instruments that are unlike anything else. The main innovation of the sixth version of Contact is a wave table engine that allows new hybrid instruments that combine synthesis with sampling to create unique sound textures.
- Activation of protected libraries is not required, the ability to register (add to bookmarks) in batch mode.
- Ability to edit patches of protected libraries.
- Possibility of resaving with samples patches of protected libraries.
- Ability to edit password-protected scripts.
- Installation, including additional software (Service Center, Native Access, MS VS C++ runtime), is not required.
- All settings are saved in the program’s portable folder (the Windows registry and other system storages are not used, administrator rights are not required*).
- Integrated Library Manager, which provides full control over protected libraries, and also allows you to register unprotected (self-made) libraries without generating nicnt files.
- Ability to work simultaneously with the installed version of the Contact without conflicts and with different settings.
Notes:
- Requires (super)administrator rights if the portable program folder is placed in a protected system storage (for example, in Program Files) – such a location for portable programs is unnatural and not recommended.
Kontakt PORTABLE is not compatible with the NKS (Native Kontrol Standard):
- Instruments of NKS-compatible libraries added to Kontakt PORTABLE will not appear on the screen of an NKS hardware device (Komplete Kontrol or Maschine). Accordingly, they cannot be selected, previewed and downloaded directly from the device browser, but only through the interface of the Contact itself.
- The controls of an NKS-compatible library instrument loaded into the Kontakt PORTABLE are not automatically assigned to the controllers of the NKS device, only manually in the standard way for external MIDI devices (MIDI Learn).
6.7.0 – 2022-02-14
IMPROVED In the settings, you can choose to replace or absorb instruments in the rack when loading an nkm patch (Options->Loading->Merge new Multi with the existing one)
ADDED new factory effects (Bass Invader and Bass amplifiers Pro)
FIXED Contact in VST3 format could crash when loading instruments with very long automation hostnames
FIXED Memory was not freed correctly in VST3 under certain conditions
Built-in effects:
FIXED Replika: ping-pong mode was incorrectly restoring saved parameters since Kontakt 6.6 .1
FIXED Replika: in slots bus not following tempo changes
FIXED Plate Reverb: incorrect playback in stereo when saved to mono
FIXED Lo-Fi: Noise parameter lost control in real time after modulating SRate or Bits parameters FIXED
3×2 Versatile: Gain parameter value could not be set by numeric text entry
FIXED Phasis: modulation behaved incorrectly
FIXED Automation above 511 could not be dragged onto UI elements
FIXED Stepper modulator can now modulate all 32 steps
FIXED Convolution: zero delay mode for all factory presets
FIXED Browser, Expert tab: number of zones cut off when exceeding 9999
FIXED: QuickLoad panel overlapping virtual keyboard
FIXED Long sample paths cut off when hovering over sample name in Mapping Editor and Wave Editor
FIXED minor GUI cosmetic fixes
FIXED Info Panel: various fixes
FIXED Factory scripts using duration bar now sync to tempo offline contact format.
FIXED Allow alterative file types (“Search for files with other extensions”): now enabled by default in the sample search dialog
CHANGED VST3: Event Input and Event Output renamed to MIDI Inputs and MIDI Outputs for consistency
ADDED new Alternate Pan Modulation, MIDI Latch 6x and Rotate Chords
Factory Scripts FIXED MultiCh Transpose Factory Script: settings not saved
YET FIXED: Creator Tools does not connect
to Tool Developer Contact
FIXED KSP Crash when declaring KSP file_browser under certain conditions
FIXED KSP Saving a string array would add an extra white space
FIXED KSP Loading a Windows-formatted (CR/LF) NKA file would result in superfluous empty lines
IMPROVED KSP Snapshot mode 2 and 3 can now be set, allowing to only store persistent KSP variables
How to install Kontakt 6 PORTABLE:
- Create an empty folder. The name of the folder itself and the path to it MUST NOT CONTAIN CYRILLIC. The folder MUST BE WRITTEN. 2. Run the
installer KontaktPortable_v670.exe - Press the Browse… button and select the created empty folder
- Press the Extract button Browse… and select the folder where the Kontakt 6.xx PORTABLE files are located: 3. Click the Extract button 4. When the Confirm file replace window appears, confirm the replacement of the files (Click Yes to All)
32-bit formats are not automatically removed during the upgrade. You can continue to use them or delete them (manually delete the Kontakt6Portable\Kontakt\x86 folder).
How to roll back Kontakt PORTABLE to one of the previous versions:
- Delete everything in the Kontakt PORTABLE folder except the UserData folder
- Download the installer of the previous version (KontaktPortable_v6xx.exe)
- Run the installer KontaktPortable_v6xx.exe
- Press the Browse… button and select the folder where the Kontakt 6.7.0 PORTABLE files were located (after deletion, only the UserData folder with your user data remained): 3. Press the Extract button How to transfer settings and libraries from Kontakt 5.7.x – 5.8 PORTABLE to Kontakt 6 PORTABLE
- Close all copies of Kontakt 6 PORTABLE, including VST plugins.
- Copy the UserData folder from the Kontakt 5 Portable root folder to the Kontakt 6 Portable root folder.
- Open the copied UserData folder, find the subfolders Kontakt and Kontakt there 5. Delete the Kontakt folder. Rename the Kontakt 5 folder to Kontakt
- Open the Settings.cfg file in the copied folder in a text editor, find the line [Kontakt 5], replace it with [Kontakt Application] Save changes.
How to add Kontakt 6 PORTABLE VST to a host (DAW)
Method 1:
Open your host settings and add the Kontakt6Portable\Kontakt\x64\VST\ folder as an additional plugin scan folder. Please refer to your DAW manual for details.
Method 2:
Run Kontakt6Portable\Install.exe and create a link to Portable Contact’s VST plugins in one of the folders already scanned by your host
How to add Kontakt 6 PORTABLE VST3 to your host (DAW)
Method 1:
Open your host’s settings and add the Kontakt6Portable\Kontakt\x64 folder \VST3\ as an additional plugin scan folder. Please refer to your DAW manual for details.
This method is suitable for hosts that do not limit themselves to scanning VST3 plugins only in the standard location (Cockos Reaper, Magix Samplitude,…)
Method 2:
Run Kontakt6Portable\Install.exe and select “Add VST3 plugin” to create a link to the VST3 plugin portable Contact in the standard scan folder for VST3 plugins.
How to add Kontakt 6 PORTABLE to ProTools
Run Kontakt6Portable\Install.exe and select “Add AAX to ProTools” (on the component selection page).
How to quickly add installed libraries to Kontakt PORTABLE
How to extract libraries from official installers
How to install Russian content of libraries in Kontakt PORTABLE
For full-fledged work of some libraries, it is not enough to download the library folder itself, you need to copy certain content from the library folder to one of the standard Windows folders in the user profile. Thus, some of the content of the library “scatters”, goes beyond the library folder.
The search and storage of such files in Kontakt PORTABLE is redirected from the standard folders in the user profile to the Kontakt PORTABLE folder, namely to the UserData folder, where all the user data of the Contact is located.
The general principle of installing the Russian content of the library.
You can find out in which folder these additional files should be uploaded from the manual, from the description or discussion of the distribution.
In general, this is:
\Native Instruments\rest of the path\ , where
is either My Documents
C:\Users\\Documents,
or Local Application Data
C:\Users\\AppData\Local
We get the path to the folder where we need to copy the files so that the library working from Kontakt PORTABLE “sees” them:
1) Replace the path to the standard folder with the path to the UserData folder:
\Native Instruments\rest of the path\
2 ) Native Instruments is thrown out of the path (if any):
\rest of the path\
3) If the rest of the path contains “Kontakt 5” (the old library from the times of the 5th Contact), then we replace it with “Kontakt”
Installation examples Russian content.
Vasya is involved in the examples, who
has a user profile here: C:\Users\Vasya\
- a standard folder Local application data, respectively, here: C:\Users\Vasya\AppData\Local\
- standard folder My Documents respectively here: C:\Users\Vasya\Documents\
- Contact here: E:\KontaktPORTABLE\
- All of His Contact’s user data respectively here: E:\KontaktPORTABLE\UserData
mac version pleaseeee???