What you get with Komplete Start
Thousands of sounds
Creative effects, built to perform
by Native Instruments
Thousands of professional quality sounds. Intuitive tools to sharpen your workflow. Everything you need to take the next step is included 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.
Sampled pianos, modern synths, hybrid textures, and genre-ready kits: all production-grade and ready to drop into your workflow.
Delays, reverbs, modulation, and grit: effects that feel like part of the performance, not an afterthought.
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)
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.
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.
Whether you’re building chord progressions, sketching melodies, or flipping loops into full tracks, Kontakt Player has nine tools made to accelerate your process.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Relaxed drum patterns, smooth low-end, and jazzy melodic elements – made for lo-fi, chillhop, and laid-back layering.
Let your creativity bloom with a collection of hybrid acoustic and electric sounds inspired by nature.
Control your sound with laser precision using the Equalizer feature from iZotope's definitive mastering suite, Ozone 12.
Add the warm, rich tones of a 34-string neo-Irish harp to your productions with this authentic Kontakt instrument.
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.
No credit cards. No subscriptions. Just music-making tools that inspire.
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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.
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 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.
A completely free production bundle, including synths, Kontakt instruments, effects, and hundreds of sounds.
Download: available immediately
<platform mac/> macOS 14, 15, and 26 (latest update)
<platform win/> 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.