NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KOMPLETE 12 RELEASE DATE SOFTWARE
This can make it a little bit confusing for users new to N.I.’s products-if you’re not familiar, you can end up wondering why you don’t see the software you just installed when you open your DAW. For example, Retro Machines Mk2, included with Komplete, is an add-on for Kontakt. It’s worth mentioning here that Komplete contains a mixture of standalone products such as Absynth 5 (a great semi-modular soft-synth with a unique “Sound Mutator” you can use to easily create new sounds from existing ones), Battery 4 (a drum sampler), and FM8 (an FM-based soft-synth) - in addition to many others that leverage Native Instrument platform products, or “engines” to do the heavy lifting, such as Kontakt (a sample-based synth) and Reaktor (a modular synth). I’m sure most new users will do as I did: survey the landscape, and start moving towards those objects that prove shiniest in one’s own situation. must make sure it has something to put in Komplete 12, right?) Of its seven new instruments, both Komplete 11 and Komplete 11 Ultimate include Form, a synth with a rich feature set that uses a sample as the primary oscillator.įirst Impressions: As I noted in my Komplete 8 review from 2011, Komplete-especially Komplete Ultimate-is so expansive, so broad, so deep, new users will spend (literally) months going through what they just bought. (No, it’s not every single one, but I’m not sure most users would notice what’s missing, and N.I. And quite literally every significant engine, synth, sampled instrument, studio effect and creative effect in the N.I. That’s a sample library of more than half a terabyte in size. says you get in excess of 18,000 individual sound presets. And to give you a sense of “ultimateness,” merely saying you get 87 products just doesn’t do it justice.
It is Komplete 11 Ultimate that’s the subject of this review. The package retails (rounding the prices up a penny) for $200, $600, and $1,200 respectively. is again incrementing the number on the box - packing in even more value, and packaging the result in more formats: Komplete 11 Select (14 products), Komplete 11 (46 products), and Komplete 11 Ultimate (87 products). With the recent release of Komplete 11, N.I.
I was impressed with Komplete five years ago, and I have to say I’m even more impressed today. The levels varied both in price, and the scope of included products, but N.I.’s mission was no doubt the same: Create an incredible bundle at an attractive price, and give musicians and producers an opportunity to “have it all.” splintered the offering into levels: Komplete 8 (28 products included), and Komplete 8 Ultimate (54 products included).
In late 2011, I first experienced and reviewed Komplete for this magazine-by then, it was incremented to Komplete 8. It has been over 13 years since Germany’s Native Instruments first threw some of its best studio software-synth and effects products into a single box, slapped the name “Komplete” onto the end result, and priced the whole thing to emphasize value.īack then, “value price” was arguably more relative Komplete retailed for a hefty $1,500, and included just nine products in the bundle, but it was still a lower price point than the products individually.
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