sharke

MachineClaw


NI Komplete 8, no brainer.  Guitar Rig 5 and Kontact 5 full plus so much more are worth the price alone.

Works in X1 and X2 no problems.  Komplete plugins x64 no problems.

My only regret is not buying Komplete 8 Ultimate when I had the money or waited a bit to find a bit more money.  I want the Ultimate Strings, Mutation libraries, mixing plugins, and basses now and well....I'll have to wait for a while for an upgrade deal.

Totally worth either Komplete 8 or Ultimate.  I couldn't do much without my NI products.

I upgraded to Ultimate when they had an offer on last summer. It was too much to resist. FWIW though, there is no "Ultimate Strings" (you get Session Strings) and I've never yet found a use for the Mutation libraries (although God knows I've tried). The extra plugs you get are well worth it, as well as synths like Razor and the stunning Prism. And yes the basses are great, but if you ever consider upgrading to Ultimate just for the basses, I think you'd be better off getting Trilian instead. 

Yeah I missed the upgrade last summer.  Ultimate has Session Strings which is what I ment.  I bought Evolve so the Mutation libraries are a nice extension - just need to purchase them.
 
I already have Trillian so the basses aren't a biggy, but would be nice.  I already have EZ drummer and SD2.0 so the drums are much but can't ever havve too many drums.
 
I am holding off upgrading til Komplete Ultimate 9 comes out this year to see what all it contains - then I will decide on upgrade.
 
but for someone that doesnt have Komplete at all or is thinking about 1 or 2 NI products then Komplete is tottally the way to go.

I'm running NI Kompete Essentials - a pared down cheapie version.

Installed fine on XP/32bit/X1 Producer

On the Win7/64bit/X2 producer the NI installer would hang til I copied the NI install executables to my desktop and ran from there - ran fine

Amazing set of players and patches - Reaktor is awesome and Kontackt lets you layer some amazing stuff - NI - from the software side - seems top notch!

And Yeah if yer a math geek - Reaktor fits yer brain.

Question for the Komplete Ultimate users, it comes with an external usb drive for content. Is it possible to move that content over to a system drive or is it "locked"?

You install it all from the drive. And then you can store that drive away should you need to install it again. There have been complaints about the drives being faulty but it worked perfectly for me. I've had to install it twice and have had no problems. 

Thanks Sharke...one other question: My main drive is an 120gb SSD so I won't have the space for samples etc, are the programs in Komplete cool with putting all the content on a different drive other than C as long as the program is on C or do you have to modify the registry like Dimension Pro?

No, you can put the libs anywhere you specify

Awesome...I thought so...thanx to everyone on this thread so far....my bank account is going to hate me!

But your music will love you! 

emwhy


Awesome...I thought so...thanx to everyone on this thread so far....my bank account is going to hate me!

It is worth waiting for a special on Komplete, last year near december Komplete was almost half price if you own any NI software.

Theres a special right now!

CadErik


It is worth waiting for a special on Komplete, last year near december Komplete was almost half price if you own any NI software.