Komplete Start is free – and built to take you further
Thousands of professional quality sounds. Intuitive tools to sharpen your workflow. Everything you need to take the next step is included Komplete Start.
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What you get with Komplete Start
Komplete Start gives you a serious foundation to take your music further.Download a wide collection of pro-quality synths, keys, drums, guitars, choirs, and traditional instruments, plus a full range of effects to experiment, shape, and polish your tracks. These are real tools, ready for real sessions, built to sharpen your workflow, deepen your sound, and help you push forward.
Thousands of sounds
Sampled pianos, modern synths, hybrid textures, and genre-ready kits: all production-grade and ready to drop into your workflow.
Creative effects, built to perform
Delays, reverbs, modulation, and grit: effects that feel like part of the performance, not an afterthought.
Smart tools for better tracks
Phrases, Chords, and Patterns help you write faster, go deeper, and stay in your flow: especially when you need an extra boost of inspiration.
“Leap gives me new ideas and pulls me out of my comfort zone, especially when I’m feeling stuck and need instant inspiration. It’s the perfect tool to explore fresh sounds and rhythms without getting too caught up in the technical side of song creation.”
– May Zoean (Composer + Influencer)
Explore a world of sound
Komplete Start includes Kontakt Player – the streamlined version of the industry’s powerhouse sampler and virtual instrument platform. It’s your gateway to thousands of sample libraries from both NI and leading-developers. Plus, you can kickstart your ideas with a free sampler and a layer of creative tools.
From Komplete Start to finish
Komplete Start isn’t just where you begin – it’s everything you need to go from idea to export. With built-in instruments, creative effects, and smart writing tools, it covers the full workflow: sample flipping, layering, shaping, arranging, and finishing.
The sampler that plays how you think
A fast, flexible sampler built into Kontakt Player.
Leap makes it easy to load your own loops or one-shots, experiment with real-time effects, and shape ideas fast. With performance-focused controls and tempo-synced engines, it’s a creative tool that fits right into your workflow with no heavy setup, and no creative slowdown.
Leap makes it easy to load your own loops or one-shots, experiment with real-time effects, and shape ideas fast. With performance-focused controls and tempo-synced engines, it’s a creative tool that fits right into your workflow with no heavy setup, and no creative slowdown.
Tools that help you build smarter
Whether you’re building chord progressions, sketching melodies, or flipping loops into full tracks, Kontakt Player has nine tools made to accelerate your process.
Chords Tool
Generate harmonic progressions in one click.
The Chords Tool lets you trigger full chord sets with a single press – perfect for writing fast, exploring new inversions, or playing with progressions you wouldn’t think up yourself. Choose from a wide range of modes, customize voicings, humanize timing, and instantly create harmonies.
The Chords Tool lets you trigger full chord sets with a single press – perfect for writing fast, exploring new inversions, or playing with progressions you wouldn’t think up yourself. Choose from a wide range of modes, customize voicings, humanize timing, and instantly create harmonies.
Phrases Tool
Instant melodies, filtered by genre and feel.
The Phrases Tool helps you explore musical ideas fast – just choose a style, play a note, and hear the result. With tempo-syncing, scale locking, and expressive variation built in, it’s a powerful way to move from idea to structure.
The Phrases Tool helps you explore musical ideas fast – just choose a style, play a note, and hear the result. With tempo-syncing, scale locking, and expressive variation built in, it’s a powerful way to move from idea to structure.
Patterns Tool
Trigger customizable melodic patterns in real time.
The Patterns Tool is a polyphonic step sequencer and arpeggiator that lets you create dynamic musical phrases at the press of a key. With editable steps, scale locking, and over 40 included patterns, it’s perfect for crafting evolving melodies, chord runs, and rhythmic textures.
The Patterns Tool is a polyphonic step sequencer and arpeggiator that lets you create dynamic musical phrases at the press of a key. With editable steps, scale locking, and over 40 included patterns, it’s perfect for crafting evolving melodies, chord runs, and rhythmic textures.
Your free virtual synth
Whether you’re exploring synths for the first time or looking for a fast and fun way to sculpt sounds, Massive X Player makes synthesis simple. This is your backstage pass to the music that shapes scenes. From growling basses to shimmering leads and floating pads, explore a vast library of presets for quick inspiration and then make them your own.
No steep learning curve, no cost, just playful sound design.
No steep learning curve, no cost, just playful sound design.
Your free studio starter pack
Komplete Start is your way in. It connects you to Native Instruments’ full creative ecosystem – sounds, tools, effects, and hardware that scale with you and support your workflow. Everything you need to move forward, without spending a thing.
Lo-fi Vibes for Leap
Relaxed drum patterns, smooth low-end, and jazzy melodic elements – made for lo-fi, chillhop, and laid-back layering.
Hypha
Let your creativity bloom with a collection of hybrid acoustic and electric sounds inspired by nature.
iZotope Ozone EQ
Control your sound with laser precision using the Equalizer feature from iZotope's definitive mastering suite, Ozone 12.
Native Access included
One place for all your sounds, instruments, and effects – Native Access makes it easy to find, install, and update everything in your collection. With powerful search and filtering, it's the fastest way to stay organized and keep creating.
Extremely powerful. Kompletely free.
Tools that level up with you
Komplete Start is your way in. It connects you to Native Instruments’ full creative ecosystem – sounds, tools, effects, and hardware that scale with you and support your workflow. Everything you need to move forward, without spending a thing.
Kontakt
The engine behind thousands of instruments.
From sampled pianos and orchestral stacks to cutting-edge experimental libraries, Kontakt is the sampler powering your sound design and performance.
From sampled pianos and orchestral stacks to cutting-edge experimental libraries, Kontakt is the sampler powering your sound design and performance.
Komplete
Your toolkit for building full tracks.
The Komplete series are bundles that include pro-grade synths, FX, and instruments for every style. Komplete Start delivers the essential tools you need to start creating full tracks from day one.
The Komplete series are bundles that include pro-grade synths, FX, and instruments for every style. Komplete Start delivers the essential tools you need to start creating full tracks from day one.
Komplete Kontrol
The hub for your sound.
Komplete Kontrol is the software that brings your keyboard or controller and virtual instruments into one place. It keeps your setup simple, connected, and ready to play.
Komplete Kontrol is the software that brings your keyboard or controller and virtual instruments into one place. It keeps your setup simple, connected, and ready to play.
System requirements
macOS 14, 15, and 26 (latest update)
Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack)
Native Access 2 is required to download and install Komplete Start
Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, or Apple Silicon, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
2 GB free disk space (17 GB for complete installation)
Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher
All instruments work in the free Kontakt Player version 7.6 or Kontakt version 7.6 and higher.
Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack)
Native Access 2 is required to download and install Komplete Start
Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, or Apple Silicon, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
2 GB free disk space (17 GB for complete installation)
Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher
All instruments work in the free Kontakt Player version 7.6 or Kontakt version 7.6 and higher.
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