I got in on the latest special in K8 ultimate.

Love the sounds, but didn't like the almost 30 gigs of extra download that were required to get all the updates as the content on the harddrive is outdated ...

I use Kontakt and Guitar Rig.  There are other components in Komplete, but I have zero problems with Kontakt and GR.

I do find NI's authorization process goffy and their customer service is not warm and fuzzy, but their products are rock-solid in my experience.

Regarding Kontakt, I have equal or better sample libraries for many of the key sounds (piano, orchestra, guitar, drums, etc.) but that said, it would be hard to find a better all-in-one collection and the sounds are all good enough to put on records.  If all I had were Kontakt, I could do almost everything I needed (except that I depend heavily on RealGuitar for strummed acoustics and don't find Kontakt's solution quite up to that).

Komplete 7 running rock solid.

I actually constructed some Soanr X2a track templates yesterday with Jamstix and Kontakt Abbey Road drums and Battery 3.

Not a glitch drag and drop and away we go!

JR

vlab


Plenty of Kontakt, Reaktor, Massive, Battery ... 

Everything works without a glitch here... 

It's a good investment, I would not say the same about their hardware though. 

Cheers ! 

V

I don't know about their other hardware,but my little N.I. KA6 interface totally blows away a Roland VS 100,that I picked up cheap,in the Round Trip Latency department.


The VS latency is appalling on my laptop,and won't even open projects until there is at least 12 ms indicated RTLatency[more like 18ms!]


The KA6,on the other hand,will open and work,at 8.7 ms!


More testing needs to be done,but so far,a $200 bus powered interface blowing away the VS 100,is a worry,I guess it was made in 2009,and the KA6 is 2011,but still...
Bob

One complaint that I have with Komplete (including Ultimate) is that it doesn't include a decent parametric EQ. By decent I mean one that sounds great and has a usable interface. 

If you just buy Komplete, you get these really outdated looking offerings, which are "custom EQ" (just tone, freq, scoop and volume controls), "Graphic EQ" (an 8-band graphic EQ with fixed bands that appears to me to be useless for anything serious), "Parametric EQ" (which only has 2 - count 'em - 2 bands and really clunky old style interface which is horrible for anything surgical), and "Shelving EQ" (yep, you get a high shelf and a low shelf). Not one of these has a hi-pass or lo-pass filter. Incredible, ain't it? And why they didn't just combine the shelf EQ with a parametric EQ, I'll never know. All pretty lame really. 

If you buy Komplete Ultimate, you get the Solid Mix Series of plugs, which contains a very nice SSL-style EQ (switchable between E-type and G-type), and has 6 bands including a hi-pass and a lo-pass filter. It's basically very similar to the EQ that's in the mixing interface in NI's Drummer series and sounds great. However, not everyone is going to want to work with a non-graphical EQ like this (I myself like to see the curves). Here it is: 



All in all I was very disappointed with the EQ offerings in Komplete Ultimate. Granted, I have other EQ's, but it would have been nice to be able to do all of my EQing in the Guitar Rig-hosted FX chains that I string together. It seems really strange that they're lacking in this area since all of the other effects are great. I really hope they offer something new EQ-wise in Komplete 9.