Reply To: Epic Thread of the Best Free Kontakt Sample Libraries (Kontakt full and Player)

[peter]

@galacov Thanks so much for doing taking the time to do all of that! It’s greatly appreciated. If you noticed, at the bottom of the list, I credit you for helping maintain the page. I know that soooo many similar lists aren’t updated, and keeping this list updated, makes it a much better experience for our community. And from my checks, the list remains the most extensive curated list of free Kontakt libraries on the web. In fact, even though this site is less than a year old, and it takes quite a while for a site to appear in top rankings at Google, it just broke the top 20 for searches on “free kontakt instruments” and is also doing well in AI searches. It’s one of the top 5 most popular pages on this site and people spend around 4 1/2 minutes on the page on average, so it’s clearly serving its purpose.

II’ll update the page today or tomorrow. When a library is no longer available, I make note of it on the list instead of removing it, in case it reappears at some point. I also want to send people a message not to delay picking up these freebies, as they can easily be removed at any point. For example, I absolutely love the 8Dio Plucked Piano library that was free but is now back at $98 USD. I didn’t know if 8Dio planned to keep it always free or temporarily made it free. I try to only put permanently free libraries on the list, but I wasn’t sure about that one and I thought it was so good, I added it. Hopefully, it will go back to free at some point and I’ll update the listing.

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