
If you have any questions about downloading the library, please contact the library manufacturer's support.
After the download you can click the Locate button in Native Access and navigate to the library folder to select it.
If the entry shows a Locate button instead, you have to download the library from the manufacturer first. If the entry shows an Install button you can directly install it: Open the Kontakt tab and find your library. In the bottom left of Native Access, click Add Serial and enter your serial number:. Third-party libraries that come with a serial number must first be activated in Native Access. Third-party KONTAKT Libraries with a Serial Number You can toggle the view with the Library Browser button: In KONTAKT 7 you can also find the Libraries in the new Library Browser. After the installation, you can find your library in KONTAKT's Libraries tab:. Find your library in the Kontakt tab and click Install. Open the Preferences and set the Download and Content location for your library:. These Libraries can be installed directly from Native Access:
Third-party libraries without a serial numberĭepending on your Library, the setup will differ: Third-party KONTAKT Libraries purchased from the NI Webshop. Third-party libraries with a serial number. Third-party libraries purchased from the NI Webshop. I've been buying them piecemeal instead of doing Komplete updates.There are three kinds of third-party KONTAKT Libraries: Having said that, the Discovery Series from NI - which is part of most Komplete packages - is a better starting point than most, for a lot of ethnic stuff, and actually covers a lot of instruments that can be found nowhere else! They are Kontakt Player libraries too no Kontakt license required. Also, it doesn't do hand modeling like Flying Hand does. Evolution Series is also quite good, but they picked weird conga voicings (super-tumba only no tumba!) and tunings, and it can't really get dry enough even with mic mixing. Unlike the "single hit" approach of most, where you want short MIDI note lengths (for the most part), this lib models the intricacies of how the hand moves while playing - it is scary how life-like it sounds compared to every other lib, for the stuff they actually cover, which isn't much (unfortunately). You will do FAR better to buy HandHeld Sound's Flying Hand Percussion the next time it is on sale - though it requires a full Kontakt license if you don't have Kontakt yet. I used fxpansion's percussion lib for BFD for many years as it is mostly recorded well and for the most part picked good instrument sources, but it's an old library and very limited regarding articulations - as is everything from native Instruments in that regard. FYI regarding latin percussion, as I am in the midst of re-tracking ALL of mine at the moment (and will still replace with my own (or others') live playing down the road at some point, where convenient).