Native Instruments Kontakt 3 comes with a huge 33GB sample library, featuring 1000 instruments spanning a wide range of styles.

If that’s not enough for you, there are also many free Kontakt instruments available for download on the internet.

Soniccouture has a free demo of the Synthi AKS

I’ve collected links to these free Kontakt instruments below. Let me know if there’s anything missing and I’ll add it to the list (the columns are sortable by clicking on them).

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Gregjazz (Greg Schlaepfer) has released a beta of HeavenBound, a freeware synth capable of producing lush pad textures. It is based on some simple physical modeling techniques.

Gregjazz HeavenBound (beta) - GUI after clicking HeavenBound logo twice

Features

• Attack/Release controls
• Intensity and fullness of sound
• 8 Meta patches which can be stored
• Morph rate (in sec)
• Effects: Vibrato and Filter

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Gregjazz (Greg Schlaepfer) has sampled a steel string acoustic guitar with a Zoom H4 (44.1 kHz, 24-bit).

All the samples have long sustain and have been tuned. You can listen to a demo here.

The samples can be downloaded in SoundFont and Wusik format:

• Soundfont: SteelStringGuitarSF2.zip
• WusikSND: SteelStringGuitarWSND.zip

Visit Gregjazz for more information about Greg’s work.

Gregjazz has released a free Throat Singing VSTi.

Throat Singing is a type of overtone singing in which a singer manipulates the harmonic resonances created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out the lips.

Features

• Tone selection (various Kargyraa and Khoomei)
• Pitch control
• Stereo control
• Harmonic Intensity control
• Mute button for Khoomei sound (overtone harmonics remain)

This VSTi does not have a GUI so it will use you hosts default GUI. Check this mp3 for a sound demo.

There is no information on Gregjazz’s site yet so download the Throat Singing VSTi here.