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The idea is that you want your track to sound like one of your favourite artists and these tools can help you get closer to that. In addition to the dynamics and EQ tools you’d expect, it features an AI-powered Master Assistant that can analyse your sound and suggest a starting point by dialling in its own settings and also the ability to match reference tracks and genre targets across tone, dynamics and width. Ozone 10 Standard iZotopeĪll three of the larger bundles come with Ozone 10 Standard, a mastering suite plug-in with all the core tools you need to punch up your final mixes ready for distribution and streaming. In the round, Kontakt 7 feels faster and more refined than its predecessor, more like an integrated experience than a bunch of libraries being accessed through an application. A single text search field also lets you search across libraries with lightning speed which when combined with the new browsing system makes finding sounds smoother than ever. Managing libraries and patches in Kontakt has never been especially slick but the new browser changes that radically, providing a single screen where libraries are displayed graphically and categories and tags appear at the top, allowing you to filter by attribute.

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Instead, this will happen gradually over time so as not to disrupt the many people who currently rely on the instrument day-to-day.Īnother major update to Kontakt is the new browser, which also supports HiDPI. NI has made the new technology available for developers to update or revamp their existing instruments though this will take some time and sensibly, they have chosen not to radically alter the rest of Kontakt’s interface at present. Kontakt lets developers build unique and sophisticated interfaces for their instruments and this will no doubt encourage further progress on that front. The new library instruments also support HiDPI display, a higher resolution that looks gorgeous on modern Apple Retina and equivalent screens. It’s a seriously practical core toolset that covers many of your essential composing and scoring needs. Version 7 brings some important updates, starting with a refreshed factory library that includes acoustic and electronic instruments as well as a large selection from the Orchestral Tools sound set. Kontakt is the most widely-used sampler instrument around today and the platform on which a great many of NI’s instruments are built, many by third-party developers. You also get Ozone 10 Standard, iZotope’s class-leading AI-powered mastering suite and a generous selection of effects plug-ins.

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Plus, there’s the full complement of the Play Series instruments, most of Kontakt’s pianos and a solid set of other instruments, but lacking the Classical and Cinematic series of the larger bundles.

The Standard bundle includes full versions of Reaktor 6, the new Kontakt 7, and flagship products such as Massive X with all of its expansions, Battery 4 and Polyplex. It’s arguably the best deal for producers whose needs don’t stretch to the exhaustive list of instruments available in the largest bundles, but who still want a comprehensive set of sounds and effects. The step up to the Standard edition is a significant leap from £179 up to £539 but dramatically increases your haul, with 87 instruments and 230GB of content.

The Komplete 14 Select edition is the most affordable and comes with 19 instruments including the Player editions of Kontakt and Reaktor as well as some core sound packs totalling over 15,000 sounds and a size of 34GB. Instead, we’re looking at the major new additions and an appraisal of the multiple packages and their potential target users – in short, which one should you consider? It would be impossible to succinctly cover them all (a full breakdown is available here). The result is a dizzying number of products in total, with over 60 new additions in this version alone. Happily, this means that Komplete 14 includes a selection of plug-ins from those companies in addition to Native Instruments’ own.

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NI recently united with music software brands Brainworx, iZotope and Plugin Alliance to form the Soundwide group.

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Since then, its software stable has continued to grow and we now arrive at Komplete 14, available in several suites based on the number of products you get. It’s been almost two decades since the Berlin-based developer released its first Komplete bundle, bringing together instruments and expansion packs at a significant discount over their collective individual prices. Native Instruments’ software lineup is among the largest and most diverse on the market.

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