Although the editing interface could be generously described as ’a little tired’ these days, the power and versatility of the engine behind it – incorporating a raft of superb filters, effects modules and modulation options, and a diversity of time stretching/pitch shifting algorithms – are unarguable. One of the first ‘serious’ software samplers to hit the market, Kontakt has become the de facto industry standard in the two decades since its launch, thanks in no small part to the ever-expanding universe of amazing multi-sampled instrument libraries available for loading into it.
