If you decide to grab some other third-party tools for mixing, I highly recommend FabFilter and Slate Digital products. The compressors and EQs that come with Komplete were co-developed by Soft-Tube, and they are pretty good. Some of it is REALLY good such as their Replika delay and the reverbs. Your DAW will come with decent mixing tools (EQs, compressors, limiters, etc), but Komplete also includes a ton of stuff to work with too. Either (or both) will cover a ridiculous amount of ground, and honestly, you may never feel the need to even buy another synth. I highly HIGHLY recommend Arturia's Pigments and Kiloheart's Phaseplant. Good libraries will never stop being useful.īig piece of advice: You need a couple of kick-ass synths to work with. I'm still using amazing Kontakt libraries that I bought 10 years ago. The good news is that sampled sounds don't exactly "go out of style" as time passes. In the 12 years that I've been doing home audio production, the sample libraries are easily the most expensive part of all my software purchases. But brace yourself - these libraries ain't cheap. I'm a big fan of Sample Logic and Heavyocity. Outside of Native Instrument's own Kontakt expansions, there's a handful of other companies that make amazing instruments for it. You have to have library expansions to load into it. Yes, the Kontakt player is free, but it's only the player. Big price upfront, but you do get an ungodly amount of high-quality stuff to work with. I know it sucks, but it's the only way to get a bunch of libraries in one big purchase that won't clobber your wallet. NI has got things locked down to push you into buying one of the Komplete packages. Buying individual Kontakt libraries is insanely expensive. It's not exactly going to rock your world. You have to look at the default library as "the free game you get with the new Playstation." It's a freebie for buying the product. It's not bad, but it's not going to cover a ton of ground. If you only buy Kontakt by itself, then the only Kontakt instrument you'll have is the default content library.
The bigger the NI Komplete pack you buy, the more of them you get. You can think of them as expansions for Kontakt. When you look at the higher tiers of that (especially the Ultimate and Collectors Edition versions), keep in mind that the majority of the price tag is for the big Kontakt instruments. You're probably familiar with Native Instrument's Komplete product line.
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