As the distinctions between beat making, electronic music, and traditional band dynamics continue to blur, the creative horizons for music production expand exponentially. Navigating this vast landscape of possibilities can be daunting, but Native Instruments’ Komplete 15 Select offers a comprehensive solution to guide your sonic exploration. This versatile suite comes in three editions—Band Edition, Beats Edition, and Electronic Edition—each meticulously crafted to address the specific needs of different musical styles. Each edition includes a curated collection of 13 plug-ins, spanning instruments, effects, and other tools that cater to unique artistic and workflow requirements.
Komplete 15 Select’s extensive compatibility makes it a perfect fit for virtually any DAW, enhancing your arrangements with its powerful features. The virtual instrument’s seamless integration with Native Instruments’ Kontrol and Maschine systems further amplifies its appeal, ensuring a smooth and intuitive creative process. This suite includes both cutting-edge instruments and time-tested classics, offering a balanced mix of new and established sounds to support your creative endeavors from initial concept to final production.
Komplete 15 Select: Electronic Edition
For those focused on dance music production, Komplete 15 Select: Electronic Edition provides an extensive array of tools designed to ignite your creativity. This edition delivers a wide range of options, from multidimensional synths and sequencers to advanced effects and mastering tools. It features basses perfect for Berghain-style techno and DNB, ethereal arpeggios, and imaginative takes on vintage acoustic instruments. The virtual instrument’s texturization capabilities include evolving distortions, shimmering choruses, and mind-bending phasers, making it suitable for virtually every genre within electronic music, including techno, house, trance, dubstep, drum and bass, and trap.
Included in the Electronic Edition are:
- Massive X: A powerful multi-oscillator wavetable synth known for its deep, evolving sounds and high level of flexibility.
- TRK-01: A dual-part low-end designer ideal for creating kicks, basses, and combo instruments, featuring extensive modulation and sequencing capabilities.
- Schema: Light: A four-layer engine for evocative sequencing, focused on melodic textures with a variety of sound sources like keys, strings, and bells.
- Feel It: This plug-in covers a range from ’90s house to future funk with meticulously sampled synths and dancefloor-ready presets.
- Nacht: Tailored for techno, offering a spectrum of synths from powerful leads and aggressive lows to atmospheric arpeggios and immersive pads.
- Utopia: A versatile collection of trance sounds with customizable effects for uplifting tracks.
- Progressive Trance Leap Expansion: An expansion designed to enhance your trance production capabilities with additional tones.
- Replika XT: A multimode delay with digital precision and analog character, ideal for creative sonic contouring.
- Choral: A flexible chorus effect offering four distinct styles and extensive stereo-width control.
- Flair: A dynamic flanger utilizing comb filters for shimmering textures.
- Phasis: An advanced phaser with complex routing and modulation options for extreme timbral possibilities.
- Driver: A distortion filter combining dynamic distortions and flexible modulation for evolving textures.
- iZotope Ozone Elements: An all-in-one mastering suite with Smart tools and comprehensive real-time visual feedback.
Komplete 15 Select: Beats Edition
For beat makers and groove enthusiasts, Komplete 15 Select: Beats Edition serves as the ultimate toolkit. This edition is perfect for those working in hip-hop, R&B, neo-soul, and funk. It offers dynamic drum sounds, spanning polished pop, vintage grit, and crate-digging soul. With extensive per-instrument tools, it supports a wide range of styles and sub-genres, capturing the essence of early hip-hop and R&B with multi-sampled instruments that include keys, horns, strings, and basses.
Included in the Beats Edition are:
- Battery 4: A powerful drum sampler and rhythm designer with extensive groove-crafting capabilities.
- Massive X: The versatile synth also featured in the Electronic Edition, offering rich, dynamic sounds.
- Empire Breaks: Features Golden Era-inspired beats created from live-recorded drums, re-sampled through period-accurate hardware.
- Duets: A bi-layer synth-key-voice instrument built for multi-genre grooves and lush leads.
- Stacks: A rhythm and groove designer capturing the sample-heavy sound of 2000s hip-hop.
- Cloud Supply: Combines explosive hip-hop forms with flexible melodies and aggressive arpeggios.
- Latin Trap Leap Expansion: An expansion designed with the rhythmic cadences of Latin-inspired music in mind.
- Dirt: A distortion plug-in modeled after pedals, offering extreme tonal possibilities.
- Bite: Provides lo-fi bit-reduction and down-sampling effects for vintage-style textures.
- Freak: A multi-effect tool combining amplitude modulation, ring modulation, and frequency shifting.
- Supercharger GT: A tube-style compressor with sidechaining capabilities for rich, pumping tracks.
- Transient Master: Offers precise dynamics control, perfect for enhancing drum sounds.
- iZotope Ozone Elements: The all-in-one mastering suite included in both the Electronic and Beats Editions, providing Smart tools and real-time feedback.
Komplete 15 Select: Band Edition
For those blending traditional and modern approaches, Komplete 15 Select: Band Edition offers a versatile selection of tools for lifelike performances and virtual emulation. This edition features acoustic drums with customizable fills, a range of keys from vintage upright pianos to soulful synths, and basses that include iconic Rickenbacker tones. It also provides a suite of acoustic guitars and versatile virtual amps to enhance both virtual instruments and external gear.
Included in the Band Edition are:
- Studio Drummer: Customizable drums with lifelike performance from renowned brands.
- The Gentleman: A meticulously sampled 1908 upright piano offering dynamic control and spatial sculpting.
- Electric Keys – Phoenix: Retro electric pianos with midcentury charm.
- Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass: An authentic capture of the iconic 4003 bass, offering deep customization.
- Session Guitarist – Strummed Acoustic: Detailed acoustic guitar tones for genuine session-grade performance.
- Soul Sessions: A multi-instrumental plug-in capturing a range of soul styles with classic textures.
- Disco & Funk Leap Expansion: Adds extra sound-shaping tools for disco and funk genres.
- Guitar Rig 7 LE: A customizable guitar rig with numerous amp, cab, and pedal options.
- Solid Bus Compressor: A renowned compressor for detailed sidechaining and stereo processing.
- Solid Dynamics: A stereo compressor with dedicated Gate and Expander configurations.
- Solid EQ: A transparent 6-band EQ with extensive flexibility.
- iZotope Nectar Elements: Comprehensive vocal mixing and mastering tools.
- iZotope Ozone Elements: The versatile mastering suite included across all editions for a polished finish.
With these comprehensive editions, Komplete 15 Select provides an extensive array of tools tailored to various music production needs, ensuring that every aspect of your creative journey is well-supported.
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