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.


• New Factory Library : has been redesigned to include seven new collections of instruments, fresh sounds, effects, additional features and a HiDPI interface.
• New Browser : Provides access to all your instruments and snapshots, allows you to filter sounds by tags, text search, user presets and favorites, helping you quickly and intuitively find the right presets for your musical needs.

• Two new effects : PsycheDelay and Ring Modulator.
Psyche Delay is a stereo delay effect that creates a range of atmospheric background echoes and reverse effects reminiscent of the 1960s "tape flip" sound.
Ring Modulator is an effect based on the ring modulation technique, also called balanced modulation. This particular type of amplitude modulation destroys the harmonic structure of the sound and gives it a metallic character. Tremolo effects can be achieved by using an LFO signal.
• HiDPI : Pin 7 supports high resolution monitors.
• Improved engine : updated time stretching algorithm.
• Updated sidebar [classic browser] : the Database tab has been removed, its functionality has been replaced by a new browser. Expert tab has been renamed to Monitor tab. When editing a complex instrument with different groups and zones, it's easy to get lost in the editing tools. The Monitor tab counters this by providing a useful overview of various aspects of the tool currently being edited. Similar to the Instrument Navigator panel, it displays a constantly updated and searchable list of all groups and zones in your instrument. It allows you to quickly include and exclude groups for editing, and provides a context-sensitive option view that shows the values ​​of the last touched option across all groups.

Additional functionality:
1. Activation of protected libraries is not required, the ability to register (add to bookmarks) in batch mode.
2. Ability to edit patches of protected libraries.
3. Possibility of resaving with samples patches of protected libraries.
4. Ability to edit password-protected scripts.
Features portable (PORTABLE) version :
1. Installation, including additional software (Service Center, Native Access, MS VS C ++ runtime), is not required.
2. All settings are saved in the program's portable folder (the Windows registry and other system stores are not used, administrator rights are not required * ).
3. Integrated Library Manager, which provides full control over protected libraries, and also allows you to register unprotected (self-made) libraries without generating nicnt files.
4. 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):
1. 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's browser, but only through the interface of the Contact itself.
2. The controls of an NKS-compatible library instrument loaded into the Kontakt PORTABLE are not automatically bound to the controllers of the NKS device, only manually in the standard way for external MIDI devices (MIDI Learn).