

Kontakt – and the ecosystem of sounds around it, both from NI and third parties – is surely the make-or-break heart of this Komplete release. Kontakt also has native Apple Silicon support for macOS users, which at this point a lot of the Komplete line still lacks. HiDPI UI (it says “browsing experience,” curiously, so – wait, not the rest of the UI?).

The biggest answer to that Kontakt 7, which promises to be a significant update: As expected, you get a bunch of newly bundled tools out of that merger.īetween all those added bundles, though, it’s worth teasing out what is genuinely new here. KOMPLETE 14 is the first landmark release of Native Instruments’ production line since NI became part of Soundwide, alongside iZotope and Plugin Alliance. That includes some major expansion to bundled tools, but still incomplete support for new Apple machines until late 2022 / early 2023. KOMPLETE 14 is coming later this month, with a major software update to the KOMPLETE sampler following in October.
