lawajava

jbow
I have GPO4, Dimension of course, I have a Yamaha PSR Workstation synth. All these sounds are appealing. Am I correct the ST3 is completely 64bit, it would be a deal breaker if it were not.
The price difference between the NI products and the IK products is what gives me pause. I think, why spend 1k when I could spend 350.00 for something similar, or is it similar?
What do you think? ..and thanks for your opinion.
Julien

Julien - in your list of what you have you don't mention Omnisphere. Omnisphere is not a sample tool like ST3 or a mega pack like Komplete, but Omnisphere is a killer in terms of keyboard sounds. Of the choices mentioned, I would throw money at Omnisphere and skip the rest.

That said, I do have ST3 and Kontakt and dig them immensely. But Omnisphere is too good not to have in your view.

Thank You! I will check it out!
 
J

cclarry
This will take you directly to the Kontakt cross grade.

There's a whole of of Goodie Goodness in K10...and K10U even more so...that's 
my next leap during the half off sale...to me...there is NO CONTEST with ST3 and Kontakt...
Kontakt wins by a landslide ...for $49 more

Larry - GREAT to see you back! What I want to know is if you saw Kenny's video in your Withdrawal thread. It's a work of art!

jbow
Dang... from searching about past "Black Friday" sales it looks like it is only for instruments and upgrades (as far as software), not for Komplete. I'd rather spend 499 for Komplete than 199 for Kontact. 1k is too much for me s Ultimate is out of the question, maybe as an upgrade in the future but any way you slice it, 1k is a lot of money. Besides, Komplete 10 would keep me more than busy. Maybe is Kontact 5 is half off then the upgrade from it to Komplete 10 would be cheaper than just buying Komplete 10.
 
Question... in your opinion, is it (Komplete) intuitive? Is it counter intuitive? If you have used it was it easy to learn or hard to learn? Is it pretty much load and play, tweak if you want?
 
I know I am asking for completely subjective answers, but thanks if you can help.
 
Thanks!
 
J

Well, um Komplete is several applications and tools. 
 
The install and service center is intuitive, no reading manuals.
Kontakt installing libraries and the user interface of each library can get complex to learn but for the most part learning one kontakt library and you can figure out others.
Guitar Rig can take some learning.
Reaktor is another world
Battery with all the cells and it's funcationalty is different than other drum programs.
massive is a synth that takes some learning beyong the presets to get use out of - it's massive under the hood.
 
for the most part native instruments applications GUIs are laid out very well and the applications are intuitive to figure out.

Agree with everything said above on NI's stuff, but the most important thing to me that always draws me towards NI stuff is, the quality of sounds........btw is just simply incomparable to what ST3 offers.   

Thanks all. I will keep an eye out for a good deal on Kontact 5, or crossgrade using GPO4. I think it will keep me busy for quite a while and really, I am much more interested in good samples of instruments than I am in synths. So it would probably serve me better anyway.
 
Julien