Native Instruments Kontakt comes with a huge sample library, featuring well over 1,000 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. In the list below I have collected some of them. Let me know if anything is missing and I will add it to the collection.
| Alex Juno (KVR) | Korg DW8000 collection. |
| Alpine Project | Brass and Woodwind instruments. |
| Artvera Music | Exposure. |
| Atom Hub | Percussive and tonal instruments. |
| Audio Emperia | Deconstruct and Epic Trailer Sounds. |
| Audio Ollie | Mute ultra low tuned palm mutes. |
| Autodafe | G&S Custom Work Drum kit, Acoustic Bass, Mega Drum Machines Collection, Pianowa, and more. |
| Bengt Nilsson | Intimate Piano and Headroom Piano (links to V.I. Control forum). |
| Bigcat Instruments | Piano, percussion, guitar, organ, and much more. |
| Blakus | pocketBlakus solo cello. |
| BOLDER Sounds | DIY Music Box, Medieval Psaltery, Suspended Slate Rocks Demo, Tibetan Granular Textures, Tibetan Singing Bowls Demo, Toy Piano, Wind Chimes Demo. |
| Channel Robot | Grid Machine Free Chain Drums, Matrix & Matrix Drums, FreeForm version 1.2 update and FreeForm 1.1 (requires account, which is also free). |
| Chiqui-Audio | Recorder, Melodica, Music Box, and The Mermaid (female vocal). |
| Cinematique Instruments | KLANG series, Landscape, Sagezahn-Saw, Cement, Chimes and more. |
| Cinesamples | Mister Rogers’ Celeste, ToyXylo, Accent Pianos, Twisted Psaltry, Tongue Drum, and Kalimba. |
| Christian Schwenk | ‘Studio 49 Royal Percussion’ xylophone (direct download). |
| Christoph Hart | Volker, the funky melodica. |
| Cosmosis (KVR) | Groovy Tunes Keyboard. |
| Crypto Cipher | Tabla Mouth Percussion, Double Sided Hand Drum & Granular Pad, and more. |
| David Das | Valentine’s Day Freebie. |
| Eamon Coughlan | Pipa, Irish Bouzouki, Garklein, Khlui, Khloy, Politiki Flogera, Shakuhachi, Pennywhistle, Ocarina, Bird Whistle, and more). |
| Eduard Telik | ETI Roads Rhodes Mark II electric piano. |
| Embertone | Ancient Voices, Intimate Strings LITE, Atmoraffe, Ivory Wind and more. |
| Fabel2112 | Fairlight CMI IIx (502 patches). |
| Fairly Confusing Waveforms | Beat Assembler 48, Rekombinator, The Device, Arctic Rooster and more. |
| Fluffy Audio | AURORROR, Simple Flute, My Log Drum percussion instrument. |
| ForceSampling | Afterlife Free (1 GB, 100 nki’s). |
| Fracture Sounds | Desk Bell, Sleigh Bells, Emotional Recorder and Pumpkin Patch. |
| FrozenPlain | Victorian Music Box. |
| GBR Loops | Indian Real Electric Bass. |
| Goldbaby Productions | TekDrum vs AnalogHeat, PPG Wave 2.2, Hapi vs Xylophone, The Fat H3500, and many more. |
| Handheld Sound | Mini Naal, Table Drum, PianoBoom, Tin Can & more… |
| Have Instruments | Ristretto Editions of Cello Textures Acoustic, Electronic and Dystopian. |
| Hephaestus | Oboe, Steinway Grand Piano, Bouzouki, Hang Drum, Clarinet & more… |
| Hideaway Studio | Vintage synth and sampler + discrete tube synth instruments. |
| Hollow Sun | Limited-time Freepacks so check regularly. |
| Homegrown Sounds | Kosmology/Multiverse – FreeFall free version of Kosmology with 120 instruments. |
| Humanworkshop | AnaSynth, ArabFlutist & PadMeister. |
| Hugo Kant | Multi-sampled Balafon, Toy Piano, Nanga, Rhodes, and more. |
| Iamlamprey | Endure groundshaking synth bass. |
| Icebreaker Audio | Hum Organ, CZ Noize, Key-Clicks. |
| Igorski | Toy Piano. |
| Impact Soundworks | The 88E, Heritage Percussion, Super Audio Boy, Shreddage 3 Stratus and Percision FREE, and more. |
| Ivy Audio | Piano in 162, Clare Solo, Carpenter Trombone, Scott Drums. |
| Jakob Reinhardt | Crispy Clean Strat, US Dream Guitar, Spanish Thrift Store Guitar, and Mountain Mandolin. |
| Jon Meyer | Gentle vibes, Steinway grand piano, Kawai BS-30 felt piano, Ludwig drum kits, and more. |
| Jonathan Howe | Jonathans Glockenspiel. |
| Karanyi Sounds | Wavesynth EP Glow wavetable instrument and Vapor Keys Sakura lo-fi pads. |
| Kralc | Cling Film Frame Drums, Wooden Percussion, Soft Guitar Chords and Toaster Percussion. |
| Kontaktbanks | Various demo banks. |
| Les Productions Zvon | Chromatic Hits (demo), Sidekick Electronic Drum/percussion Kits (demo). |
| Michael Kingston | Ruffrider & Easyrider drums. |
| Mihai Sorohan | Vowel Ensemble Choir Pack. |
| Minimal Tonal | Piano and SUB instruments. |
| Mntra | Rasa with Tibetan Horn, Morin khuur, Pitched Volcanic Rocks, and “Viper” Death Whistle. |
| Modularsamples | Korg Z1, Ensoniq ESQ1, DSI Tetra and more. |
| Muletone Audio | Strashed, collection of high quality percussive sounds recorded from various methods of destroying a guitar. |
| Native Instruments | Kontakt Factory Selection. |
| Orange Tree Samples | JazzFunk Kit (direct download) / Slide Flute (direct download). |
| ourafilmes | Various (dnb type) instruments. |
| Past To Future Samples | Vintage drum kits & vocal samples. Also, exclusive 60s Motown Drums Vol 5 at Rekkerd. |
| Performance Samples | River Harp, Solo Violin Legato, Legacy Selection and Active-Bow Tech Demo. |
| Pettinhouse | Yamaha kit, Jazz Guitar, Vinyl Hammond, Garage Vinyl Full Kit, DirectGuitar 2.0 FREE, Brush kits, DirectBass FREE, Classic – Nylon Guitar…. |
| Pianobook | A collection of community sourced sampled pianos. |
| PULSEHA | Toy upright piano and Syntaktion Basic monosynth. |
| PulseSetter Sounds | Metalstorm library for trailer composers and Reverxis reverse guitar sound design instruments. |
| Precisionsound | Peruvian Ocarina, Cretone TT, Koestler Rigoletto, Red Grand, ToysToysToys. |
| Premier Sound Factory | Wurly Premier G electric piano. |
| ProjectSAM | The Free Orchestra monthly cinematic instruments. |
| Rast Sound | Snow Bells, Vocal Morphs and taster packs. |
| Rattly And Raw | Bear Problems, Lockdown Kitchen, Zombie Drum Bits, The Hipster’s Bongos, The Simpler Sampler. |
| Red Room Audio | Snaps Claps Slaps Stomps & Shouts and Palette Primary Colors. |
| Replika Sound | Acoustic Guitar (Nylon String) & Steel String demo versions. |
| Resomonics | ChillerScapes spooky ambiences & drones for horror. |
| Retro Sampling | Electric DigiChrome Piano. |
| Rhim Samples | Stylophone Beatbox free, Dubsiren. |
| Rigid Audio | Drum One, Metawave and Ambiloops Bundle. |
| Riot Audio | Bionic Plucks and Mallets – Lite Edition and Tremolo Clouds. |
| Riverwood Air | RAW Power Metallic Percussion. |
| Rossignol Studio | Versophone, Barbariz 3, Orgambou, Orguerver, Harmonéon, Francinium, Sifflo, and Philorgue. |
| Sample Logic | Taste the Fury Taiko drum ensemble instrument. |
| Sample Modern | Detuned upright piano, future rise 25, keys for edm, minimal chords, and more. |
| Samplefino | Analogue Kick Drum generator for Kontakt. |
| SampleHero | Vintage Toy Tambourine. |
| Samplephonics | Ronroco, Leeds Town Hall Organ. |
| SampleScience | Analog Waveforms v2, The Bells, Taiko Drums, Singing Bowl Renaissance, Stylo Synthesis, Zither Renaissance, and many more. |
| Soni Musicae | Harpsichords, pipe organ, accordion, and more…. |
| Sonic Cat | Cajon (free 4 velocity layer version) and Pop Piano Free. |
| Soniccouture | Hammersmith Free Model D Grand Piano, Thunder Drum, Music Boxes, Tape Choir. |
| Sonixinema | Christmas Bells, Contemporary Cello, Viola & Violin Freebies, Brute Flute Freebie, String Textures, Piano Textures, and Medicine Man. |
| Sonora Cinematic | Aria Libera cinematic granular vocals and Magnetica Redux cinematic soundscapes. |
| Sonuscore | Free HD Orchestra Chords & Sustained String Chords (newsletter signup), Enthic Flute Phrases, and Phrases Compilation. |
| Soundethers | Freefall animated textures. |
| SoundFxWizard | Scrape Swhell horror swell geneartor. |
| Soundiron | , Rainsong, Desk Bell, Snack The Cat. |
| Strayworx | Fujiya MC-3A and Ultranova SAW Bass. |
| Sound Blocker | Mikes iMoog (Moog Voyager). |
| Strezov Sampling | Creative ToolboX: Drums and Percussion, Diamond Jazz Trio, The Felt Seiler Free Edition, and more. |
| Strix Instruments | ZVENIGOROD Toy Piano. |
| SUN.io / Sudden Sound Studio | Jackson guitar, field recordings, 9 World Instruments. |
| Synth Magic | MiniMagic 002 & 003, Synare, Siel PX Electric Piano, Piano 73. |
| Taqsim | Middle Eastern instrument featuring accordion, rababa, shvi, tar, duduk, garmon, frula flute, kanun, ney, and more. |
| The Sample Company | Round Robin 808 R&D – Test Kit. |
| THEPHONOLOOP | Texture Mozaik.01 Demo (fully functional). |
| Tronsonic | Expressive Tron synth instrument. |
| VST Buzz | Soft Guitar Chords, Egyptian Darabuka, Wooden Percussion, Piano in 162, Shortnoise, Clare Solo, Jonathan’s Glockenspiel, and many more. |
| Wavesfactory | Whispers, Freelodica, Old Tape Drums, DrumCircle, Power Guitars, 1850 Pipe Organ, W-MusicBox, W-Clock. |
| Walid Feghali | Feroyn’s Flute beautiful legato recorder. |
| Westwood | Ailt Piano upright felt piano. |
| Xtant Audio | African Slit Drum. |
| Yarra Audio | P511 analog modular synthesizer instrument. |
| ZAK Sound | Morning Coffee Piano. |
Not free, but you can also pick up some really cheap Kontakt libraries up at VST Buzz.
