If you choose to install all of it, you'll end up with 320-440 GB of instruments, effects, and sound manglers, including stalwarts like Kontakt and Reaktor, plus new innovative instruments like Rounds. Kontrol requires an external power supply in addition to the USB connection to the host computer, and also offers MIDI I/O, plus expression and sustain pedal inputs.Īs software libraries go, Komplete 10 Ultimate is ginormous and does away with the multi-DVD installers in favor of a single 2.5'' USB 2.0 hard drive to facilitate the installation. All three are similar, with semi-weighted key action, automatic parameter mapping to the eight touch-sensitive rotary encoders, built-in arpeggiator, and an LED-driven performance and control feedback system NI calls Light Guide (Why not 'Light Cycle'?). We received the 49-key Kontrol S49, but it also is available in 25-key and 61-key versions. As one would expect, the two are tightly integrated, with many features of the software not only directly controllable from the hardware controller, but performance-enhanced in ways that wouldn't be possible via a standard MIDI integration.

Native Instruments sent us their latest MIDI controller keyboard to test, the Kontrol S-series, along with the latest iteration of their flagship software instrument bundle, Komplete 10 Ultimate. And, what? There are Ks where all the Cs should be! Wait - lemme explain. You guys, my home studio now sounds like the Blade Runner soundtrack, and looks like the set of TRON.

Komplete kontrol 49