Kontakt is a software sampler made by Native Instruments. It runs on Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms, available in standalone and plug-in formats (VST, Audio Units, DXi, RTAS). Concept Kontakt was envisioned as a 'new-breed' software sampler, the original version pushing for a stable interface to work with pitched musical sound. Some say that Kontakt's main focus was interface design, enabling musicians to quickly and painlessly create their own instruments based on sampling sound sources. Kontakt 2, released in 2005, extends on many features of Kontakt, and also includes a number of new sound-treatment algorithms, that enable one to stretch or tune a sound without altering pitch or time, respectively. One of the landmark features of Kontakt, however, remains the ability to control multiple voices via different MIDI channels, which reduces the memory and CPU load of having multiple instances of software allocate

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