Kontakt 7: First Look and Scoring Demo 

Proud to have participated in the creation of the Factory Library. In addition to some old guitars and basses, already included in the previous library, now there is my FunkyBass, AcousticGuitar, the ClassicGuitar samples, and other stuff. I provided the samples and Native Instruments created the patches. Not having Kontakt 7 yet I have no idea how they sound but I'm sure a good job has been done. Greetings, Andrea

I love how effortlessly Guy sits down with us for a half hour and turns out a really beautiful, catchy, epic clip. I just love these videos. Also, nicely done NI for the factory sounds! They’re stellar.

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Guy I appreciate your candor and humility. Seeing someone as skilled and confident and experienced as you struggle to keep in time with percussion honestly really helps me, because I struggle with that as well. You and your channel make my dream of creating music feel achievable, and for that I thank you.

Guy I love your enthusiasm and energy! You’re one of the first jump to for walkthroughs etc

Guy, I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning of the global pandemic. I just had to reach out and comment to say thank you. There are these deeply frustrating times where I feel I have little to no talent as I sit for hours producing nothing. Spinning my wheels and feeling like I’ve missed something. Watching videos where perhaps I learn some information but I come away not understanding why it seems so easy for these musicians. Feeling Overwhelmed I rage quit for a week until the NEED to make music is an itch I have to scratch. To get that high only the creative process sometimes graciously allows. I say thank you today because out of all the endless content I can consume around the subject I feel that you are the most honest relatable teacher. You inspire me to create with your genuine enthusiasm. I find you endearing as you don’t sand down your own rough edges for the sake of making a “perfect”video and commit to it flaws and all. It honestly makes me feel not so alone and provides much needed perspective along this musical journey I’ve embarked on for better or worse. You are often a highlight of my day so thank you and never change. :)

Guy - I put your channel in my top 3 'must watch'es. I'm essentially the same age as you (I think you were 9 months old when I was born), and I feel like my best musical years are still ahead of me. I upgraded to K14CE, have everything (that I like) loaded up, and I'm ready to roll. Thanks for the constant fun/wise/interesting/helpful advice and perspective! One request -- Studio One V6 was released yesterday, and finally has a proper video track. Would love your take on the DAW, at some point(!).

Watching you jam is an education in orchestration. I aspire to achieve what you so informally toss off into your DAW. So of the best tutorial on scoring, and all for free. Thanks.

Thank you Guy - it’s luvverly to see how you show how mental & exciting this mental & exciting stuff is - I’ve been obsessed with this for many years - love on ya - Tx

A crazy kind of Genius! Just magical to watch and listen to Guy in full song creating this stirring anthem out of... apparently nothing!

I'm so excited we finally get a new Factory Library for Kontakt. It's been a long time coming.

I downloaded 14 yesterdaym not realising it was so new - I rather like it - and will continue fiddling - thanks Guy for some of the stuff here - I didn't realise it did much of this.

Couple of really cool things to point out on K7 , Single instrument mode (no bank) so double clicking on the sound replaces the one before it doesn’t stack them by midi channel. And a real piggy which I actually asked for on the beta team, You can now suppress the dialogue which asks are you sure you want to replace an instrument every time!

Your videos are really the best...so entertaining, inspiring, and educational. Thank you!

Another superb presentation of the master! Guy Michelmore! Thank you very much for this Kontakt 7 presentation! More power to your youtube channel Guy!

Unbelievable. Incredible. Great content, information, and scoring demo. Thank you, Guy!

I was looking for sound examples of Kontakt 7, was impressed with demo of Ashlight and Omnia here. Purchased K7, then realising that they are in fact not included in this set but are separate $199 and $399 instruments. Should've looked more into it before buying, but I'll just leave this comment for others.

Thank you sir for the great work and workflow.

I love your videos. Thank you for your tutorials! They really help me!

Many thanks for this you have made up my mind i will go for an upgrade to 14

Guy, I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning of the global pandemic.Thank you very much for this Kontakt 7 presentation! More power to your youtube channel Guy!

The add of custom Library is a MUST for me, finally! :)

Thank you for the great demonstration of Kontakt 7

The old Kontakt UI was legendary. The product rectangles were like little trophies from your life.

Guy! The melody you create with those brass instruments and string arpeggios is amazing. You always impressed me with your creative skills. To learn from the master, I think I'm going to study what you did carefully and try to repeat it on my own. I'm just so impressed.

Great video as always !! I’ve just dipped my toes and bought Komplete 14 Standard and absolutely loving it

Your graphics are so realistic. Amazing 👌

Love this vid Guy! would love to see more videos with the libraries in it you could make a Komplete series :D

i could watch this for hours and hours❤

Watching and learning Guy. Thank you..

Great content. For a first time NI Komplete CE user, this has been the most painstaking and buggy installation process I have even encountered.

We enjoy your performance always. You create faster a short music for trailer than i can find on the net or library:-)

wow 38 years to listen to all the sounds...thats how long its going to take for me to write something as good as you!

Amazing documentary style video there, i loved the intro

Oh this is so exciting 🤩

Thanks for the thorough first look, Guy :)

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

As somebody who was in the middle of a major project right when XLN released the amazing Addictive Drums 2 (in which I had a small part in the mapping features), it really makes a difference when the new version is treated as a separate plugin, because it means you can just move the things for which the new version will genuinely bring something to the table.

Rather good. Thanks for the review!

Nice update, like Sound Preview, and the fact that non Full version libraries show up in Browser now reminding us of all those libraries hidden from view.

nice video, thanks!

I bought Collectors 13 Komplete last year and I logged in to Native Access and Kontakt 7 was there to download. Pretty cool.

That was fun ! Thank you

Love the shadow in the opening! Looks like Guy is explaining Kontakt to a to a curious otherworldly visitor

Awesome review and demo!!! ❤️👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏿

The fact that the window is resizable shows that NI is entering a whole new era.

Thanks Guy! Twas great!

New Factory Library looks and sounds great! Excited to see Orchestral Tools getting involved. I have been underestimating the original factory library for too long, some great sounds in there made by VSL

Good show, Guy. As always.. Bravo ! : )

Amazing

Audio preview! Yes!!!

Great video as usual.

Thanks Mr. Michelmore!

My new Hero - Guy Michelmore - Clever & Kind - a perfect combo!

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY

I must admit that sounds impressive- dramatic. Love the reverb on drums.

Okay, you got me! Great video Guy! Besides your technical and musical knowledge, you are also a very funny guy! Very entertaining!! Love it! Channel is subscribed! Thanks a lot for sharing! Cheers DimiZ

Yes! Thx, just the video i wished you make next. :D

I've always wondered how these programs are used to create the amazing works I've heard. Thanks so much.

thank u helped me a lot

A great orchestral overture to demonstrate nice Kontakt sounds!

I basically know everytNice tutorialng there is to know about soft soft but I still watched tNice tutorials through just because of how good you explained

I’ve been wondering what’s new on kontakt 7. But now, my curiousity has been answered through your video. Thanks a lot mr. Guy! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks Guy

💯🍻 I'm glad i seen this, I just finished updating now I know what to expect 🍻

Just getting around to watch this vid. Very helpful!!!

That was fun! :D great video, subscribed!

This looks like a superb upgrade. Can't wait! Not taking over the "Kontakt" VST namespace is a bummer though. I don't see any advantages in that. This year I already had lots of issues trying to render a 10 year old project that still used a couple Kontakt 3 instances. I managed to revive them on an older system and an older Cubase installation. It would be great if there was some kind of legacy mode that supported even older projects or if we could simply choose to take that namespace. Now I have to go back to all my unfinished/unrendered projects and replace these Kontakt instances which is a pain in the analog synth.

Such a great channel!

wow your working place is so good! in nature

Hi Guy. I have been following you for a while now, and you are a true inspiration, and a knowledge bank I can just learn and learn from. And your great mood, energy and enthusiasm always makes me happy. And thank you for a great walk through of Kontakt 7. Now I cant wait to upgrade from my version 6. As far as I can see Kontakt 7 is not available yet. How did you get it?

What I like about Guy is the he often begins uncertain (sunglasses of doubts where are you???) but then ends with great pieces.

I actually have the subscription for Native Access. I use it constantly and its worth the price of admission. If there are any struggling young composers out there, give it a try. The effects alone are worth it. Guy keep up the great work, though not enough Logic X (I get that elsewhere lolol).

Fantastic! Some people have friends who take them "down the club" and put their entire salaries down the "pokies". I have you. But at least my money isn't wasted - due to your most excellent reviews. Thanks Guy!

Hi Guy... I know that the Bernard Herrmann Toolkit is quite old... but I think it is a great plugin.. and I would love to see one of your composition sessions with it.. pls pls pls do a composition session in the style of Bernard Herrmann using the toolkit... I am sure that all your fans would love it. thanks

Custom Libraries!! Finally!!!

I do think the original vsl samples sound wonderful, and I have always felt the Kontakt factory choir was the jewel in the crown--but with the new Orchestral Tools content I really feel Kontakt 7 might be the only sample instrument I need to buy for a good long while! And I love the way Guy just belches out a nice uplifting piece of music in 20 minutes.

superb

You're my proverbial hero

Mike, this was perhaps my favorite review/tutorial of yours. I have been with the Komplete series since its onset as a "Konzoomuh" offering. Unlike a film spoiler experience, I much enjoy having somewhere who's walked the grounds of the Komplete 14 Collector's Series before I've come onboard. It's nice to know what you've learned about "the new building" before I walk half a mile down the *palatial corridors to realize that a washroom was just a couple of yards from me if I had only ventured to my left ["We Dreamed of living in the corridor! It would have been a *palace to us.] Peace.

First of all, i must admit , pure magic in 35 minutes! This truly shows what you can achieve even with factory libraries, if you know your tools. For sometime, i really forgot i was watching a first look at Kontakt 7. Thanks Guy for the nice piece! Back again to the main topic, thanks to NI for bringing out Kontakt 7 scalable interface. Much overdue! Really wonderful. Once again Komplete Kontrol 14 with Kontakt 7 proves that you get your money’s worth “Kompletely”! Hopefully will be able to get my hands on it soon. Finally, thanks again Guy for bringing out such a wonderful first look on Kontakt 7!!

Thx bro,the best拾

Too good i want to learn from you

It's about time Kontakt supported 4K properly! That's the most exciting news for me, maybe I won't have to bend forwards into the screen in Cubase just to read anything!

Don’t say it’s the default, and cheesey Guy, I’m taking notes assiduously over ‘ere! Good stuff.

Wow! Sounds great! Still using komplete 5 and 6... Will need to upgrade my computer!

Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay just got 15 new blockbuster ideas after listening to this little score piece.

Great work and workflow. Thank you for this video. Kontakt 7 is now a must have for me. Awesome factory lib... Guy you are the best.... Will wait for a sale to upgrade my komplete 13 collectors edition to 14.

take one for the team! Indeed I panic everytime I do a new installation of all these sounds!

Was waiting for 14 to upgrade from 12 collector’s edition. I will now wait for summer of sound :)

Love your string flurry mistake at 20 mins in!!

Let's go!

Guy M: undisputed king of self criticism! 😂

My Guy when you played the 16th triplet instead of 8th, one thing you could have done to make it into 8th real fast instead of playing it again is to stretch the section twice as long with the timing tool or whatever it's called. It would obviously become twice as long too :)

I got the collectors edition upgrade yesterday and it’s great although the new Native Access 2 wouldn’t download into my Mac studio so I had to reinstall the old Native Access. Otherwise it runs really well.

As always Guy, thanks for a greatly informative and entertaining video. In that template you created, do you load an instance of Kontakt with a specific instrument for each track? Cheers from Montreal!! Mario.

I just bought a new Komplete Kontrol s49 midi keyboard and am enjoying the sounds. Best thing for me is writing drums with the keyboard instead of penciling them in!

So anxious to upgrade my Kontakt 6 to 7, nice sounds, specially for me... I have a Gospel Musical I've written in Sibelius and imported the midi file to may DAW, no doubt it will sound great with Orchestral Tools! Thanks NI!!

this reminds of the exciting part of a 90's movie.

Work 100%