Comments on: NI Komplete blown out at $399?!? What does it mean?

By: Arp

Arp — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:02:08 +0000

Bringing up Live is a good point – I’m still on Live 5, and an upgrade to Live 8 Suite is $379 – or $459 for the boxed version with EIC. Personally I’m a bit turned off by the 65gb of samples that Komplete involves – I’d much rather something like PianoTeq instead of Akoustik Piano.

By: chaircrusher

chaircrusher — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:29:35 +0000

@pipecock — it goes without saying that the cool kids do their own sound design. You only sound like everyone else if you never stray away from the presets.

And for that matter, there are sounds, e.g. electric piano, where the notes played are more important than sounding ‘different.’

By: tom/pipecock

tom/pipecock — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:52 +0000

“there aren’t a lot of reasons to go beyond the instruments built into Live”

i can think of one: to ensure that your shit doesn’t sound just like everyone else’s.

By: Arp

Arp — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:29:23 +0000

It’s an insane deal, and I’m wondering exactly what NI’s goal is. Is it better to acquire customers who will pay for upgrades? Or do they just want to sell some stock off for some other purpose?

It’s super-tempting just cuz Reaktor is $449 – everything else would be gravy. A LOT of gravy. Possibly too much gravy.