There’s a lot of the “cinematic” stuff – Action Strikes, Ashlight, Mysteria, Pharlight, Sequis, Emotive Strings, and more. Ultimate adds some key additions: Razor, Flesh, the new Piano Colors, the Pro version of Session Strings. Standard+, from $599 new, now includes Kontakt 7 and Ozone 10, plus a ton of instruments / effects / expansions. Select, at $199 or free with some NI hardware, gives you an array of different kinds of instruments but limited to the Player version of Kontakt. Here’s the simplest possible way of saying it: I honestly don’t care what it does so long as it’s easier to install things reliably – we’ll see. Traktor is now subscription-based – in line with Pioneer’s Rekordbox, which is available as the same – with updates there, as well.Īlso new – Native Access is updated, at last, with some additional browsing/search features. Session Guitarist/Bassist – Electric Mint, Picked Nylon, Prime Bass.Piano Colors (piano + modulation layers).Brainworx/Plugin Alliance instruments: bx_Oberhausen, Knifonium, bx_Crispytuner, LO-FI-AF, bx_Console Focusrite SC, bx_Console N.So that means, depending on the bundle/upgrade you buy, you could pick up: You also get effectively all the major new releases from NI of the last two years. That includes Knif Audio’s Knifonium model, which recreates a 26 vacuum-tube instrument.

Synths from NI don’t get much play so far in the Komplete 14 announcement, but what we do get is a bumper crop of synths and effects from Plugin Alliance. Now you get that popular mastering suite as part of the deal. Now that Soundwide are one brand, that’s worth mentioning here, too: iZotope is unveiling Ozone 10 in the same timeframe. So we’ll look at it in more detail shortly.Īlso new in Komplete is Ozone 10. Kontakt – and the ecosystem of sounds around it, both from NI and third parties – is surely the make-or-break heart of this Komplete release. Kontakt also has native Apple Silicon support for macOS users, which at this point a lot of the Komplete line still lacks. HiDPI UI (it says “browsing experience,” curiously, so – wait, not the rest of the UI?).The biggest answer to that Kontakt 7, which promises to be a significant update: As expected, you get a bunch of newly bundled tools out of that merger.īetween all those added bundles, though, it’s worth teasing out what is genuinely new here. KOMPLETE 14 is the first landmark release of Native Instruments’ production line since NI became part of Soundwide, alongside iZotope and Plugin Alliance. That includes some major expansion to bundled tools, but still incomplete support for new Apple machines until late 2022 / early 2023. KOMPLETE 14 is coming later this month, with a major software update to the KOMPLETE sampler following in October.

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