It’s arguably the best deal for producers whose needs don’t stretch to the exhaustive list of instruments available in the largest bundles, but who still want a comprehensive set of sounds and effects. The step up to the Standard edition is a significant leap from £179 up to £539 but dramatically increases your haul, with 87 instruments and 230GB of content. The Komplete 14 Select edition is the most affordable and comes with 19 instruments including the Player editions of Kontakt and Reaktor as well as some core sound packs totalling over 15,000 sounds and a size of 34GB. Instead, we’re looking at the major new additions and an appraisal of the multiple packages and their potential target users – in short, which one should you consider? It would be impossible to succinctly cover them all (a full breakdown is available here). The result is a dizzying number of products in total, with over 60 new additions in this version alone. Happily, this means that Komplete 14 includes a selection of plug-ins from those companies in addition to Native Instruments’ own. NI recently united with music software brands Brainworx, iZotope and Plugin Alliance to form the Soundwide group.

READ MORE: Beginner’s guide: Essential software tools for podcasting.Since then, its software stable has continued to grow and we now arrive at Komplete 14, available in several suites based on the number of products you get. It’s been almost two decades since the Berlin-based developer released its first Komplete bundle, bringing together instruments and expansion packs at a significant discount over their collective individual prices.

Native Instruments’ software lineup is among the largest and most diverse on the market.

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