Native Instruments Noire KONTAKT — Mac download

Noire runs in KONTAKT Player or the full KONTAKT sampler on macOS 12 and later, supporting Intel and Apple Silicon Macs as a 64-bit plug-in (VST, AU, AAX).

Load the pure concert grand

Start with a clean 9-foot grand recorded in Saal 3 at Berlin's Funkhaus complex. Adjust attack, decay, resonance and velocity curve to match your playing.

Switch to the felt version

Engage the felt moderator layer, which places a physical barrier between hammers and strings for a softer, intimate tone with reduced overtones.

Activate the particles engine

Felt piano for dialogue-safe underscoring

Film composers who need a piano that sits under dialogue without fighting the voice. The felt version and particles engine give you movement without clutter — ideal for tense, slow-burn cues.

Pianists who record late at night. The felt moderator delivers a close, dampened tone that suits reflective solo pieces and demo-quality sketches you can print straight to a cue.

Sound designers and hybrid producers. The particles engine plus the tone-shaping tools — overtones, noise, sub-bass — push the grand into territory you would normally patch together from three different instruments.

KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 owners. Light Guide indicators show key ranges for the particles layer, and the on-keyboard controls map to attack, decay and effect sends without touching the mouse.

Velocity curves that reshape touch response

• Velocity curve presets — Switch between the linear curve, a soft setting for weighted controllers, and a fixed-velocity option for drum-machine-like consistency. The curve graph updates in real time as you drag.
• Resonance as a tone shaper — Crank the resonance knob on the felt version to reintroduce a woody body without losing the muted attack. Works well for arpeggiated lines that need warmth but not brightness.
• Particles freeze — Hold the sustain pedal and press the particles trigger; the swirling harmonics lock in place as a pad while your hands move to another part.
• Built-in effects chain order — The signal runs through EQ, compression, then time-based effects. Push the compressor harder before a long reverb, and the tail carries the grit without muddying the initial transient.
• Snapshot browsing from hardware — On KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboards, turn the encoder to scroll 100 Snapshots organized by style (cinematic, felt, processed). Tags appear on the keyboard display so you never open the KONTAKT browser.
• Quick felt-to-pure morph — Assign a MIDI controller to the dry/wet mix between the two NKI layers inside a single instance. Blend a felt attack with a pure sustain for a piano that breathes differently note to note.

Trigger swirling harmonic elements from your held notes. The engine reacts to dynamics and adds motion for underscore or ambient sound-design patches.

• macOS 12 or later
• Intel or Apple Silicon Mac (64-bit)
• KONTAKT Player or KONTAKT (VST, AU, AAX)
• English interface