Native Instruments Komplete 15 Available Now To Pre-Order – What’s New
Native Instruments has announced Komplete 15, a new update for its Komplete and sound bundle with the new Kontakt 8 sampler, Guitar Rig 7 Pro, and more.
The highlight of the new Komplete 15 bundle is the renewed Kontakt 8 sampler, which is somewhat surprising since Kontakt 7 was only introduced in Komplete 14. I didn’t expect a jump to 8 so quickly.
While the full product launch – and more details – will be arriving later this month, NI has given us an exciting glimpse of what’s to come in Komplete 15 and Kontakt 8 and made both available for pre-order today. If you order during the pre-sale (before September 23) you’ll get iZotope’s AI-powered mixing tool Neutron 4, which would ordinarily set you back $249, for free.
NI tells us that Kontakt 8 is a “massive step up” from its predecessor and shared details on three new features that make this industry-leading sampler an even more versatile music-making tool: Leap, Tools and Conflux.
Leap is a tool for transforming loops and one-shots that makes it easy to turn a basic sample into a new hook, riff or texture. Shipping with 12 curated loop packs geared towards specific genres and styles, Leap will also let you load in and manipulate your own samples and trigger its effects in real-time with the black keys on your keyboard.
Tools is a suite of generative tools aimed at helping you spark creativity and come up with new compositional ideas. Kontakt 8 introduces two new Tools: Chords for chord sequences and Phrases for melodies. Third-party developers will be able to develop their own Tools for use in Kontakt. Finally, Conflux is a hybrid instrument that brings “synth-type capabilities” to Kontakt for the first time by introducing movement and modulation to sounds through real-time wavetable manipulation.
Komplete 15 updates NI’s mega-bundle of music software with a broad variety of new instruments, effects and sounds that includes a new flagship instrument, Kithara. Included in Komplete 15 Collector’s Edition, Kithara is a library of guitars and plucked string instruments that have been transformed with creative performance techniques and cinematic sound design.
Komplete 15 comes in three different versions: Standard, Ultimate and Collector’s Edition, which features over 290 instruments and effects and more than 150,000 sounds in total.
Here’s What’s New in Komplete 15 (Standard, Ultimate, Collector’s Edition), and Kontakt instruments:
- Kontakt 8
- Guitar Rig 7 Pro
- iZotope Ozone 11 Standard
- iZotope Trash
- VocalSynth 2
- Action Woodwinds
- Conflux
- Valves
- Scene: Saffron
- Bazzazian Tapes
- Bouquet
- Feel It
- Glaze 2
- Nacht
- Sway
- Utopia
- Karriem Riggins Drums
- Rudiments
- Session Percussionist
- Electric Keys – Diamond
- Electric Keys – Phoenix
- 50 Expansion sounds (Standard)
- + everything from Komplete 14
Ultimate adds:
- Schema: Dark
- Schema: Light
- Vocal Colors
- Alicia’s Electric Keys
- Session Bassist – Icon Bass
- Session Bassist – Upright Bass
- Session Guitarist – Acoustic Sunburst Deluxe
- Session Ukulele
- 30 expansion sounds (80 in total)
- + everything from Komplete 14 Ultimate
Collector’s Edition adds:
- Valves Pro
- Fables
- Kithara
- 75+ expansion sounds (125+ in total)
- + everything from Komplete 14 Collector’s Edition
Native Instruments Komplete 15 will be available on September 23, 2024. If you pre-order it now (full/upgrade/updates), you get the iZotope Neutron 4 mixing/mastering plugin for free as an early bird gift.
Komplete 15 Standard is priced at $599/€599, Ultimate at $1199/€1199 and Collector’s Edition at $1799/€1799. Reduced prices are available for those upgrading from a lower tier. Kontakt 8 can be purchased outright for $299/€299.
Visit Native Instruments website to pre-order Komplete 15.
