Opinions on Komplete 13 ?
Posted: 17 Sep 2020
No experience with Native instruments. I admit i dont fully understand how it works yet but Komplete 13 apparently will be available on october 1st and depending on where you are and exchage rates could cost as much as 550 euros.
Komplete 13
Session guitarist
Pro rig
Cuba
West africa
Middle East
India
Massive x
Reactor 6 (could take or leave..more interesed in reason's modular environment tbf)
Una corda
1 maybe 2 expansions packs ( of which there are 24! .....they seem similar to alot combinator refills to me)
These are the packs in it that i'm interested in unless there are other intruments/samples that people who have komplete already own and are insts/samples/effects etc that they completely cannot live without...i'd be insterested to know.
It seems pretty expesnive bundle just for the packs in it that im interested in.
I have some questions ..maybe someone might know these things.
1/Would Komplete 13 realisticaly need to be run off and external hardrive? ( i saw a guy's video on you tube who was a composer running kontakt libraries ...he had 4 external hardrives running different libraries at the same time on his home system! ...albiet one of them was a 4 terabyte backup drive)
2/ Could it be run off a laptop's internal drive? ... my mac has 2 usb ports .. the library altogether is about 300 gb which to me seems manageable
3/If i bought komplete and download everything i need on to an external drive would this mean if i only want to use the synth massive that i would always need this external drive connected? Can seperate ins/elements/packs be stored in different loacations?..i've read that is is tricky. Just interested in how others do this kind of thing.
4/ If i would buy Kontakt 6 instead (cheaper)........ are the libraries that are in Komplete 13 all available to buy seperatley for Kontakt 6? If so are those sample libaries alot more expensive to buy this way?
Sorry for all questions but i'm a noob when it comes to differnt eco-systems outside if reason.
Lastly ..i've been listening to alot of piano sample libraries (Youtube) and i'm not really not that impressed by the overall quality the native instruments piano libraries really.... but then i've kinda convinced myself that Keyscape is what i want in that regard........from what i've heard so far the realism of the yamaha C7 grand in keysacape is unrivaled to my ears!
Any inforamtion at all on komplete/kontakt in general would be a massive help thanks.
Komplete 13
Session guitarist
Pro rig
Cuba
West africa
Middle East
India
Massive x
Reactor 6 (could take or leave..more interesed in reason's modular environment tbf)
Una corda
1 maybe 2 expansions packs ( of which there are 24! .....they seem similar to alot combinator refills to me)
These are the packs in it that i'm interested in unless there are other intruments/samples that people who have komplete already own and are insts/samples/effects etc that they completely cannot live without...i'd be insterested to know.
It seems pretty expesnive bundle just for the packs in it that im interested in.
I have some questions ..maybe someone might know these things.
1/Would Komplete 13 realisticaly need to be run off and external hardrive? ( i saw a guy's video on you tube who was a composer running kontakt libraries ...he had 4 external hardrives running different libraries at the same time on his home system! ...albiet one of them was a 4 terabyte backup drive)
2/ Could it be run off a laptop's internal drive? ... my mac has 2 usb ports .. the library altogether is about 300 gb which to me seems manageable
3/If i bought komplete and download everything i need on to an external drive would this mean if i only want to use the synth massive that i would always need this external drive connected? Can seperate ins/elements/packs be stored in different loacations?..i've read that is is tricky. Just interested in how others do this kind of thing.
4/ If i would buy Kontakt 6 instead (cheaper)........ are the libraries that are in Komplete 13 all available to buy seperatley for Kontakt 6? If so are those sample libaries alot more expensive to buy this way?
Sorry for all questions but i'm a noob when it comes to differnt eco-systems outside if reason.
Lastly ..i've been listening to alot of piano sample libraries (Youtube) and i'm not really not that impressed by the overall quality the native instruments piano libraries really.... but then i've kinda convinced myself that Keyscape is what i want in that regard........from what i've heard so far the realism of the yamaha C7 grand in keysacape is unrivaled to my ears!
Any inforamtion at all on komplete/kontakt in general would be a massive help thanks.