IK Total Workstation 2 or Komplete 8?

Komplete 8 will be cheaper in July/summer. They've always had a summer sale, especially if they bring out Komplete 9. Komplete is great, especially as it has the brilliant Kontakt as part of it. You can get older versions on KVR - great value. Good value on the workstation - if you want what's in it.

komplete 8 if you can get ultimate i am. the pianos are very nice I'm getting rid of my ivory software sense NI got better ones. Plus some awsome strings and retro machine for classic synth. Also lot great drums abby road studio drums.
Plus kontakt can play third party or any file format, and nice sampler.

craigfowler

marcus3


komplete 8 if you can get ultimate i am. the pianos are very nice I'm getting rid of my ivory software sense NI got better ones. Plus some awsome strings and retro machine for classic synth. Also lot great drums abby road studio drums.
Plus kontakt can play third party or any file format, and nice sampler.

I have never, ever heard anyone say that the Kontakt/NI pianos are preferable to Ivory. I think you'll regret this enormously if you take this route.

Really?, Well with Ivory it just ilok deal, hear lot people complaing about the ilok. Though sound qaulity to me both sound like you get great sounds.
Honsetly now you give me 2nd thoughts on komplete 8. haha Now i have more reason buy yamaha motif rack xs and use it with ivory.

I'd mostly like to know how the IK Moog emulation is and does it have a B3 too?

Mike 

+1 MGH

I have most of IK's synths and Sonik Synth2 has probably the best quality sounds......they all use SampleTanks engine, so all the sound libraries can be in put one folder and only SampleTank needs to be loaded. I got in some of IK's group buys and ended with a ton of libraries. Like MGH said, you have to do a bit of work to get them to sound fuller & "phatter". 

That being said, I also have the full version of Kontakt and straight out of the box, the quality of sounds are so much, much, much better than IK's. There's also plenty of 3rd party samples available for Kontakt.  
I also think that NI's synths maybe geared more towards the electronic genre, but Kontakt is the golden child which has something for everyone and everyone should get this. 

If I had a choice of choosing between IK's stuff and Komplete.....I'd definitely go for Komplete 8 as the quality just speaks for itself.

  

So are them some decent deals on Kontakt seperately, or should just save a little more to get Komplete?

Zo


what killed me about ik was the interface and the workflow speacially the presets selection ....a real deal breaker for me

I they keep prices like this and update the player : the will make hits !!

I do have Sample Tank XL installed and I realize reading your post that I avoid it for that exact reason - selecting/switching patches is a click-fest, and considering how tiny the GUI is, I prefer not to use it. And TBH, I don't think that those libraries are on par w/ what's out there these days.


I also have SampleTron - I absolutely love the sounds in this one, but once again they're not as accessible as they should be. 


So the Bundle is a no go for me. I couldn't care less for Moogs and Sonic Synths. Miroslav might have been nice, but since the only way to get it at a discount is to buy all the stuff I don't need or care for, just too bad. That plus the hassle of using ST pretty much kills it.

the thing with kontakt is thats's NI's main bread winner... soo  they make Komplete rather attractive, pricing wise.

yep it's a lot of dosh, but if you can use say 60% of the instruments on it.. works out not too bad.

I got it from v5,6,7 when it had pro53 etc.. I won't buy the new ones until it's got proper synths.. I've had enough of their sound packs and them dropping them (with kore)

until NI fix up, that cash goes to others like Fxpansion & fab filter.. their premium and "value" version of k8 were poles apart and purposely annoyed a fair few users no doubt.

So how does the Mirsoslav Orchestra compare to the orchestral patches from Kontakt (and DimPro's)? 

Miroslav. Listen to the demo video on IK site. It's an accurate little summary. I like it but I'm a casual user of orchestral stuff. People who do a lot tend to use other programmes - newer, bigger and subjectively better for them. The GUI is a bit dated and should given a modern makeover. Underrated because newer stuff comes out but I like it how it sounds. Orchestral plug-ins are like drum vsts and it's personal taste. It has a smooth sound rather than the sharper sound many have today. When on sale, it's a bargain.

I don't own both, but I have a lot of IK products (e.g., Miroslav) and Komplete 7.  Komplete 7 is a phenomenal package though I use less than 1/4 of it. If you have nothing else, you'll get wonderful drums (Abbey Road), a very nice piano (Alicia's Keys is included I think, as well as the uninspiring but competent suite that used to be called Akoustic Piano), the excellent Scarbee electric pianos and B4 replacement "vintage organs".  As you can tell, I'm mostly looking for traditional sorts of rock instruments. Being completely honest, the only Kontakt/Komplete instruments I routinely use right now are the e-pianos and vintage organs, simply because I got used to different piano libraries earlier, and because I already had Superior drummer by the time I got the Abbey Road sets. However, I'd be quite able to do what I want to do if *all* I had was Komplete 7 (or 8), I'd just have to learn different ways of doing it.  So for me, a big thumbs up to the Komplete package.