![]() NI appears to have really mastered some interesting sonic territory: that in-between zone of acoustically-based samples that, via the judicious use of effects processing and juxtaposition, achieve a hybrid modern sound. If you just signed on with Netflix to make a sci-fi movie soundtrack, then these instruments have you covered and then some! It is hard to classify them too precisely but Pharlight is the most organically ethereal and Ashlight the most digitally brooding and avant-garde, with Straylight somewhere in the middle. All three of these instruments excel at creating complex, evolving modern soundscapes that are powerfully evocative. By independently selecting the sample sources, modifying the loop in and out points, and playing with the X/Y matrix, a huge range of melodic, rhythmic and noise-based sounds can be generated. All of these utilise what is now a fairly common NI approach to sound-making: blending two different looped sample sources through an X/Y matrix. The headline items here are the Straylight, Pharlight and Ashlight sample-based instruments. Those who choose to spend the extra bucks to spring for the Collector’s Edition will doubtlessly include many producers and recording musicians looking for a sonic edge, whether in the form of a fresh expansion packs by the latest flavours in electronic production or in more flexibly articulated and lavishly-sampled acoustic instrument libraries.Īrguably, the biggest beneficiaries of this new release are screen composers who will find some outstanding new creative tools at their disposal. All of the familiar tried and tested sample libraries and virtual instruments, such as Battery, Massive, Absynth and Reactor, are retained in expanded and augmented form, but then there’s more….oh so very much more! With the release of the Komplete 14 Collector’s Edition, NI is making available not so much a balanced/curated music software suite as a veritable tsunami of music-making tools that will keep users delving back in and discovering new sounds and features for years to come. If you tune into Top 40 radio or pay heed to a movie score, chances are you will hear sounds generated by a Komplete instrument of some type. Native Instruments’ Komplete software and Kontakt sample player are an industry standard. This is Native Instruments’ ‘kitchen sink’ bundle - everything the team have been able to throw at its hugely successful Komplete platform (including a surprising number of new products), and redefines such terms as ‘epic’ and ‘feature rich’. What do you give the producer or composer with everything? Well, you could do a lot worse than the Komplete 14 Collector’s Edition.
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