Product Comparison of all Komplete VersionsĮvery year or two when a new Komplete release looms, music message boards light up with users asking, "If I have version X of Komplete, what would I gain by upgrading to version Y?" This hasn't always been an easy question to answer, because Native Instruments preserves very little information about older products on their site.
No other single virtual instrument publisher offers quite the breadth and depth that the Komplete series has consistently delivered since that first big blue box hit store shelves.
When they packed their nine best products into one giant box and dubbed it "Komplete," the message was clear: Why go anywhere else for software instruments when everything you need is right here? Today's Komplete Ultimate bundles are the soft-synth equivalent of Waves Mercury. In 2003, a seven year old Native Instruments knew what it wanted to be when it grew up: The dominant force in virtual music instruments.
UPDATE (August 1, 2016): The comparison chart has now been updated for Komplete 11! Please see the new " Native Instruments Komplete Version Comparison 2.0" for the latest updates on Komplete bundles.
UPDATE (May 7, 2020): I am no longer able to stay on top of this stuff, but user gNNY from the Native Instruments forum has continued my work with his own version of the database. Several specially curated kits were also created to BATTERY 4.1, such as all kicks within an expansion.Įxported from individual MASCHINE kit patterns, consisting of single elements and combinations, these audio loops are specially curated to provide authentic building blocks for the music genre. Sounds within a kit produced by MASSIVE, MONARK, REAKTOR PRISM or a MASCHINE Drum Synth were resampled tor use in BATTERY 4.1. Please note that this update requires MASCHINE 2.7.2 only supported by MacOS 10.11 or newer.įollowing the curation of the original MASCHINE kits, BATTERY 4.1 kits were created from the unprocessed samples. EXPANSE, added BATTERY, kits and audio loops.
Raw drum hits and one-shots come DAW-ready – plus tempo-based construction loops give you building blocks for inspiration.
And Windows instruments were played through the Sega Mega Drive’s FM YM2612 chip for primitive authenticity Fast arpeggiators were driven through Commodore 64 SID chips to sample chord variations. Old-school oscillators were tinkered with to create new sounds. To capture drums and percussion, Game Boys were hacked using LSDJ and Nanoloop tracking software on custom cartridges. And a retro DIY counterculture of music makers was born – its influence seen in genres spanning from pop to hip hop, breakcore, and grime.īYTE RIOT was created in collaboration with Ivo Ivanov and Alex Retsis.īYTE RIOT surges with crunchy circuit-bent drum kits, warm 8-bit leads, and retro video game samples. Repurposed, modified video game gear was pushed to make bleeps, blips, and distorted sounds. Vintage audio chips became makeshift synths.