I am too scared to buy in july and find in september they release a new version, I guess the crossgrade prices will stay the same as also the retail price will stay the same otherwise no one would buy it. PB21 , Jul 1, At the moment I am not sure what to do I have Komplete 8 at the moment and an upgrade would cost me Euros.
Sounds like a nice deal. But, as you guys mentioned, it is pretty obvious that Komplete 9 is just around the corner. The upgrade from 8 to 9 would be another I don't know So the upgrade to ultimate and the upgrade to 9 would cost me about the same as a straight upgrade from 8 to 9 Ultimate. What do you guys think would be the best way? Leibregime , Jul 10, JohnWynberg , Jul 10, Leibregime Golly that's a tough one.
I don't believe they did a Ultimate before, so will they do it again? What if you upgrade to K8 Ult. Then there's the question of what the price difference of what K8 Ult. The same as the upgrade of reg. K8 to K9? Then there's also that fancy hard drive that Ult. So if you upgrade to Ult. What if K9 Ult. If you are planning on upgrading to K9 Ult. If you upgrade to K8 Ult now and then only wish to upgrade to K9 regular, what would That cost be?
On second thoughts, there might not be a Komplete 9 Ultimate. Isn't this Ultimate edition supposed to be limited edition? Was there a Komplete 7 Ultimate? And even if there is a Komplete 9 soon, what can they put in it, that is not already included in K8U? That Giant piano? Not that interested. Product Comparison of all Komplete Versions Every year or two when a new Komplete release looms, music message boards light up with users asking, "If I have version X of Komplete, what would I gain by upgrading to version Y?
To satisfy my own curiosity, and to help my fellow KLFs Komplete Lovin' Fools , I spent a fair amount of time compiling the contents and release information of every Komplete bundle since the series debuted. Click image to view the Komplete product version comparison worksheet. You can find my detailed product comparison of all Komplete versions right here. It lists every major version of every individual product that was ever included in a Komplete bundle, and when each product was introduced or discontinued.
The Release Details tab gives detailed stats on each Komplete bundle month and year of release, price, number of products, etc. The worksheet and its tabs represent the raw data, and what follows is some various trivia and analysis of Komplete over time. Unlike "standard" Komplete releases, which are a selection of popular products in the Komplete product line, Ultimate bundles contain the entire Komplete catalog of software products as of a specific date which Native Instruments specifies.
Any new products in the Komplete line that Native Instruments brings to market after a Komplete Ultimate release date are usually not grandfathered into that pre-existing Komplete bundle although there have been occasional exceptions.
Those new products generally will be included in the next major Komplete Ultimate bundle, however. The Komplete Ultimate hard disks are not used at product runtime, and aren't intended to store any information other than the product installers.
They are only provided to facilitate installation. Neither Komplete 8 Ultimate or Komplete 9 Ultimate are available in downloadable form. Registered owners of standard Komplete 8 and 9, however, are granted download access to the ISO images of the DVD install discs in the event that their discs are damaged or misplaced.
Discontinued Products Over time, Native Instruments has discontinued a number of products that once featured in earlier Komplete bundles. Acoustic Refractions Komplete 7 was the only full Kore soundpack included in a Komplete bundle, although some content from other Kore packs has trickled into various Komplete products since Kore was discontinued.
Some see Maschine as an evolution of the Kore concept, although Maschine lacks Kore's advanced sound morphing engine. See the Kore Soundpacks section later on for more details about that product line. The Akoustik Piano and Elektrik Piano Kontakt instruments that appeared in Komplete releases between and were discontinued, however most of their samples were reused in other Kontakt piano instruments that are still available today and included in current Komplete Ultimate releases.
Read on to learn what happened to the Akoustik Pianos samples. The samples used in these instruments come from the discontinued Akoustik Piano product, although any references to the original manufacturers and piano models were removed from the Piano Collection versions.
These products were discontinued in in favor of the new pianos that debut in Komplete B4 Organ Komplete was a popular emulation of the Hammond B-3 organ. While the Vintage Organs Kontakt library includes a "Tonewheel Organ B3" instrument that represents the B-3, it is purely sample-based whereas B4 was synthesized.
Intakt was a slicing and looping sampler that had several features which now appear in Maschine. Kompakt was a multi-timbral sample player based on the Kontakt engine which has more or less been replaced by Kontakt Player.
Reaktor Session Komplete 1 was a stripped down version of Reaktor 4. It had the full engine, so was capable of playing any existing Reaktor ensembles, but apparently couldn't be used to create new instruments. Replaced by the modern Reaktor Player. It was officially discontinued in because the potential benefits of keeping the product alive did not justify the effort required to keep it up to date with evolving computer and DAW architectures.
Vokator was an advanced FFT-based vocoder. Like NI-Spektral Delay , keeping the product current proved to be more trouble than it was worth, so the company discontinued both products in Pro was actually Native Instruments' third and best emulation of the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 analog synthesizer. The earlier emulation products were Pro-Five and Pro While there are some Prophet samples in the Retro Machines Mk2 Kontakt library included in all current Komplete bundles, Native Instruments does not currently offer any true Prophet emulations.
In , Native Instruments released three bundles under the Komplete banner. The Komplete bundles. Kore Soundpacks While Native Instruments sells many expansion packs for Maschine , occasionally distributes free remix sets for Traktor, and frequently promotes third-party Traktor remix sets , they do not currently market any expansion sets for the Komplete product line. This wasn't always the case, however. During the heyday of the Kore product line, Native Instruments sold around 30 different Kore Soundpacks , which employed the various engines behind Native Instruments' flagship Komplete instruments.
While most of the soundpacks focused on a single engine there were several Massive and Absynth packs, for example , a number of them included patches that used several engines together, taking advantage of Kore's powerful sound morphing capabilities. After Native Instruments discontinued the Kore line, a lot of content from the original Kore soundpacks made its way into various aspects of the remaining Komplete products.
After a fair amount of research, I've compiled a list of all Kore soundpacks that were released, and where they ended up in Komplete. You can find the full list here. It's a tab on the main Komplete comparison worksheet. Click image to view Kore Soundpacks worksheet. While content from about half of the soundpacks is still available in Komplete in one form or another, please note the following: Around half of the soundpacks are simply not available in any manner in Native Instruments' current line-up.
Most of these were either produced by third-party developers or were too complex to break out into presets for any single Komplete product. While a number of soundpacks used only a single Komplete engine, many used more than one. So even though the content from an original soundpack might appear today as a Massive, FM8, or Absynth sound bank, for example, it might be missing presets that relied on different engines.
Without Kore, you lose the ability to take advantage of its sound morphing; today you only have individual presets. Komplete 4 Komplete 5 Komplete 6 Komplete 8 Komplete 9 Komplete 10 October. Specifically because of Blocks , the cool new modular synth! Some users complain that the number of blocks that come with Reaktor 6 is smaller than expected. Have you seen Deadmau5 explore Reaktor 6 and Blocks for the first time?
And since I just bought some new Arturia synths, I did not want to spend money needlessly. I have enough synths to play with for a while! Even the modular Moog Modular and the Arp which both allow me to connect modules with virtual patch cables.
Product pages for Arturia Moog Modular and the semi-modular Arp Komplete is usually released in September or October of a given year.
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