The Score Upgrade Essentials

*Upgrade to THE SCORE – Unlock the Full Experience

You’ve started your cinematic journey with THE SCORE ESSENTIALS – now it’s time to take it all the way. THE SCORE isn’t just a bigger version – it’s the complete, uncompromising scoring experience.

With more Stories, more instruments, and deeper creative control, THE SCORE gives you the full range of expressive power for any cinematic project. From sweeping orchestral drama to modern hybrid textures, everything you need is here.

Special Upgrade Offer: If you own THE SCORE ESSENTIALS, you qualify for a discounted upgrade to the full version of THE SCORE.

• More than twice the number of Stories for ultimate variety
• Expanded instrument range, additional layers, and advanced arrangements
• Extended sound design capabilities and deeper performance control
• Seamless integration with your existing workflow

Take the next step. Unlock everything. Compose without limits.

Upgrade now and experience THE SCORE in full.

The Score is our All-in-One solution for scoring. It’s a perfectly coordinated toolbox to give you access to the popular sounds-like-film-music feeling right Out-of-the-Box. Compose professional scores quickly and joyfully in a jam-like composition process. Or compose your music note-for-note using our huge collection of single instruments.

• Perfectly matched scoring toolbox, guiding you from the start to the end of your composition.

• Massive, colorful instrument collection: 46 orchestral, 37 synth, 20 band, 34 world and 18 drum instruments and more (160 in total)

• Comes with 120 animated stories to inspire you. Each story includes four different arrangements with a vast dynamic range, meant to help you tell your own musical tale.

• Includes various groundbreaking power tools: Chord Studio, Melody Studio, Dynamic Mixer, and Adaptive Customizer.

WHAT’S INSIDE?

The Score gives you everything you need to compose for any genre, right out of the box. Start with inspiring Stories and use our smart tools to get on track instantly. Further shape your work with over 160 individual instruments. Our intuitive interface makes your composing efficient, straightforward, and fun.

Key Features

• The ultimate all-in-one set of scoring tools

• A mind-blowing customizer controlling 10 layers of melodies and harmonies

• Mod Wheel fully optimized to maximize the energy and tension

• An entire orchestral selection with 160 instruments

• 120+ incredible animated Story presets with four different arrangements and endless possibilities

• 4 groundbreaking tools: Chord Studio, Melody Studio, Dynamic Mixer, Adaptive Customizer

• Lead instrument to design virtuosos and melody

• 19.5 GB of uncompressed data

Works with the FREE KONTAKT PLAYER Version 7.8.1 or higher
 

This product requires the free Native Instruments Kontakt Player, the latest version can be downloaded through Native Access, Native Instrument’s download manager!

The minimum required Kontakt version for this product is stated in the product description or can be found on the manufacturers website.

System Requirements:

Mac:

• macOS 11, 12, 13
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or Apple Chip
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Windows:

• Windows 10 or 11
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or similar CPU
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Supported Interfaces:

• Mac (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• Windows (64-bit): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AAX

Legacy Versions:

If you require legacy installers of Kontakt Player please refer to this Knowledge Base Article.