NKS Builder

Collaborate with us

To make music that connects us we need tools that do the same. We believe our industry should be about working together to create the best possible experience for our users. We’d love to discuss working in partnership with you – no matter the size of your team.

Powered by NKS

NKS is the Native Instruments technology at the core of our partnerships. It fuels the deep connection between virtual instruments and hardware from hundreds of brands. Users love NKS because it slashes set up time and unlocks a huge choice of quality, compatible sounds.

Become a software partner

Make sure your sounds reach the widest audience possible with Kontakt, Leap, and more platforms coming soon. We already work with hundreds of trusted partners and have brought thousands of products to market.

Kontakt

Kontakt is the definitive platform for creating sampled instruments. It’s mature, stable, and feature-rich. The free player ensures the widest possible reach for your products and the eighth generation has expanded its creative potential beyond traditional sampling.

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Simple to use

Designed to be user-friendly and accessible for builders of all skill levels

Powerful features

The platform supports sophisticated building projects and it just got even bigger with enhanced synth capabilities

Expand your audience

Publish on the Native Instruments website and reach millions of creators, with free additional monetization options

No hidden costs

We offer a transparent licensing model. No bandwidth costs or extra fees.

Leap

Leap is a fast and fun way to play and manipulate loops in Kontakt 8. We kicked things off creating 12 packs for specific genres and styles. Now you can join the Leap ecosystem and craft your own Expansions for the global music production community without the need to write any code.

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Tools

Experiment with a completely new layer of creative features, that work with any Kontakt instrument, old and new.Tools is Kontakt’s 8, creative MIDI framework that gives users multiple ways to manipulate their notes, shape the style of how to play, discover new territories in rhythm and sound, and enhance performance and playability across any Kontakt instrument.

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Become a hardware partner

Even more controllers now work with NKS including products from Korg, Arturia, Akai Pro, Nektar, and Novation. If you manufacture music production hardware we’d love to hear from you too.

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