NI Komplete 5

[Jorg]

I just ordered mine in a bundle with the Arturia 10year suit for 699£
Not bad for all NI plugins plus all Arturias synths.

[PeteJames]

I never really use NI synths. I don't know why, maybe they don't sound great to me or the interface is too fiddly. I'm just not fond of them. £400 isn't much at all if your gonna use them. Demo a few pieces and then decide.

[MikeSV]

I own quite a bit of NI's products and have demo'd the rest. I personally love the workflow and sound of NI's stuff, but there is definitely a "sound" to all of their synths and samples. I do agree that some patches are too thin and metallic.

[danika]

Originally Posted by MikeSV

I do agree that some patches are too thin and metallic.

That's just a plot by NI to get you to buy Kore so you can layer them.

[chromatronic]

i think its a very good deal also because you will be able to upgrade to next version for cheap to if you want... if you really really want lol

The thing is off course some of those plugs are useless for many peoples so finally if there is only 5 that you like... its a less good deal BUT... compared to the price of each synth on Ni website its become a good deal as soon as you want 2 of them...

[thehuman]

Originally Posted by chromatronic

compared to the price of each synth on Ni website its become a good deal as soon as you want 2 of them...

Exactly. I wanted Kontakt and Massive, and the price for just those two would have been about as much the entire collection.

[The Architecture]

I like it for the fact that if I want to get away from my studio, i can make music on the go where ever I am. Sure I love hardware as much as the next guy, but there's something to be said about portibility.

I got it for Guitar Rig, FM8, Absynth, Reaktor, Battery, pretty much everything that came with it.

[danika]

I got it and was really impressed with how smooth the installation was. The install took forever because of the 10 or so DVD's that had to be loaded, but it just cranked away and finished without incident.

I already had Kontakt and Absynth which I uninstalled first. I was very nervous about Kontakt because all of the projects I already have using Kontakt. But again no problem. I had put the reinstalled Kontakt library on a differerent drive, but the existing projects found everything OK. I had also removed a Kore Soundpack, the Best of Reaktor, but I had to reinstall that since the patches acutally don't seem to be in the full Reaktor.

[ernesto]

If you were thinking about getting this deal, most places online have sold out, or raised the price. I finally ordered mine yesterday from Nova Musik.

[crufty]

picked it up as well. Really incredible. Reaktor has completely blown my mind. I now understand why everyone has always said "dude, just get reaktor." It really is all that.

I immediately set to creating all my fantasy sequencers. The mono sequencer of my dreams is almost done (really simple actually), now working on drums.

I have an old Kore that I bought, considering bringing it out of retirement; one issue, when I bought it, NI said the serial was already registered and gave me flack over it. I'll try again though, maybe they will relent and let me use the dang thing--I bought it new from GC of all things. I can only imagine the shenanigans.

I'm also digging the guitar rig...nice usable fx bank. Having issues using pro-53 as an fx though. Maybe I need to read the manual?

[alexamk]

Here is my dilema. I bought Komplete 2 when it came out and over the years kept upgrading. When I finally got everything working on my PT8 HD rig, I realized the non of the native stuff was going to work. So I bought another MacPro and am in the process to put all my VI's on that machine and trigger it with midi and record tracks form it into the PT machine thru Lightpipe. Anyway I have been loading all my samples into the machine and when I got to Native, I have to start with Komplete 2 and go all the way thru Komplete 5...ugh. I am thinking of just buying the damn $400 deal to save myself 12 hours of work at least. What do you guys think?

[chromatronic]

buy the 400$ box i think

[robd]

So far, I'm not impressed by the smoothness of installation. It installed just fine, but then I couldn't register it. Downloading service center didn't help, and I can't seem to get an answer from support. So I'm doing the whole install again right now.
I'd give the installer about a C- even if it does work the second time around. Since it takes a few hours a pop, they should have gone to the trouble to make it work the first time.

[robd]

Reinstalled the whole thing, and it still can't find service center. Customer support does not appear to be forthcoming. Any suggestions?

[YUGA]

Originally Posted by robd

Downloading service center didn't help

Originally Posted by robd

Reinstalled the whole thing, and it still can't find service center.

Downloading the service center doesn't help and K5 doesn't find the service center either. You gotta launch the service center after installation and the NI service center detects that K5 is installed in your computer. Then type the serial number included in your box.

[robd]

I actually tried that first, but I can't seem to launch service center. i can double click the icon, and nothing happens at all

[The Architecture]

After installing NI Komplete, after using hardware for soo long, I was rather disapointed by the sound quality. Reaktor seems to be quite a demanding program, even for my current computer. I have to bump my latency to 20ms to get it to work smoothly. Im not sure if I made a wise move with this one.

I want to be able to install it on a laptop, while having it on my desktop as well, not to use in unison, but to just be able to make music on the go, which would be the absolute attraction honestly.

[crufty]

It's different. Is it worse?

Something to meditate on: focus not on the can't, but on the can.

[joeydego]

anyone know what the license limit is? 4 computers from now, am i just out the dough?