

There are other instruments in the Komplete 13 bundles: In other words, the version of Kontakt you need depends entirely on how the developer decides to distribute their work.Ī great introduction to Kontakt is available on YouTube by Guy Michelmore:

That’s an option, but in that case NI makes the end-user basically pay for that privilege by making the user buy “Kontakt Full”. Kontakt Full - however, developers, often the smaller ones, cannot afford to do that, but still want to benefit from developing for Kontakt. If the developer wants the maximum value delivered to their customers, and the least friction, they’ll pay NI what are effectively distribution rights. Basically Native Instruments charges developers for benefiting from the ecosystem they have built. Kontakt - will be able to load and play, any instrument for which the developer has paid the distribution license fee. Kontakt - a “plugin” which hosts virtual instruments built to the Kontakt standard.

The Komplete packages/bundles contain a large number of instruments - many of which also have their own expansions available:
