Recognised in the industry as a professional standard production suite, Komplete has carved a unique place for itself in modern recording practice. Komplete caters for musicians, producers, sound designers and experimental artists by presenting a comprehensive collection of tools and instruments that can potentially provide an answer to any musical question. Komplete is available in four different packages to ensure users have access to a collection that suits their particular needs; Komplete Select, Komplete Standard, Komplete Ultimate and Komplete Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Purchasing the collection of instruments, effects and tools in a Komplete package promises substantial savings on the purchase of those same items acquired individually from Native Instruments.
Each edition of Komplete now includes a selection of the new Expansions – sound collections of pre-sets, drum kits, samples, loops and one-shots focussed toward specific genres. These Expansions have been created by Native alongside musicians and sound designers whom are specialists in their fields, and are usable within any DAW.
Installation of Komplete is also easy for all – purchase a physical copy to receive a key or HDD drive which contains the complete software, or alternatively a download version will provide the software immediately, made accessible via Native Access online (where registry of Native products is also facilitated).
Needless to say Native Instruments produce a number of software controllers, both in the more traditional keyboard format (Komplete Kontrol keyboards) or more intuitive and innovative hardware (the Maschine range). All of these controllers come pre-mapped to perfectly respond to the contents of the Komplete tool-kit.
Komplete Ultimate provides enough processing power to singlehandedly run small studios on its own. Every major effect and instrument type is represented, and truly massive sound and sample libraries are included. Ultimate contains all 101x Instruments & Effects, 20x Expansions (True School, Velvet Lounge, Deep Matter, Halcyon Sky, Lucid Mission, Neon Drive, Queensbridge Story, Molten Veil, Elastic Thump, London Grit, Drop Squad, Platinum Bounce, Lazer Dice, Marble Rims, Caribbean Current, Astral Flutter, Cavern Floor, Golden Kingdom, Byte Riot, Decoded Forms), over 45,000 Sounds and 600GB Sample Library. For a full summary see Native Instrument’s website.
The main features of the Native Instruments Komplete 12 Select include:
Note: Massive X (long awaited follow-up to Massive) will be released in February of 2019. Owners of Komplete 12 Standard, Ultimate & Ultimate Collector’s Edition will be able to download this software for free upon release.