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Unlike 'standard' Komplete releases, which are a selection of popular products in the Komplete product line, Ultimate bundles contain the entire Komplete catalog of software products as of a specific date which Native Instruments specifies. The first 'Ultimate' bundle was 2011's Komplete 8 Ultimate.The worksheet and its tabs represent the raw data, and what follows is some various trivia and analysis of Komplete over time. The Legend tab describes the color scheme used in the worksheet (green products are first-appearance-in-Komplete, red products last-appearance/discontinued, etc.) The Release Details tab gives detailed stats on each Komplete bundle (month and year of release, price, number of products, etc.).

It lists every major version of every individual product that was ever included in a Komplete bundle, and when each product was introduced or discontinued. You can find my detailed product comparison of all Komplete versions right here. To satisfy my own curiosity, and to help my fellow KLFs (Komplete Lovin' Fools), I spent a fair amount of time compiling the contents and release information of every Komplete bundle since the series debuted.Ĭlick image to view the Komplete product version comparison worksheet. 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.

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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.

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