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Native Instruments Komplete 15 – Press Release

Native Instruments releases Komplete 15, Kontakt 8, and Kithara 

The biggest Komplete update ever includes over 50 new instruments, effects, and expansions, offering everything you need to make the music that matters to you.

Berlin, September 23, 2024 – Native Instruments is proud to release the biggest update ever to its flagship production suite, Komplete 15. Now available worldwide, Komplete 15 offers an incredible selection of sounds and endless ways to shape them. Order before September 30 and receive iZotopeʼs Neutron 4 professional mixing suite for free (worth $249 USD). 

Whatʼs New in Komplete 15? 

Komplete 15 introduces over 50 newly included instruments, effects, and Expansions, providing an unparalleled range of creative tools to take your productions from start to finish. Whether you’re scoring a blockbuster film, producing chart-topping hits, or exploring new sonic landscapes, Komplete 15 provides a vast array of sounds to keep the creative flow going. 

Highlights include: 

●  Kontakt 8, included in Komplete 15 Standard, Ultimate, and Collectorʼs Edition, is the latest version of the industry-standard sample-based instrument platform used by the worldʼs top producers, composers, sound designers and studios. Kontakt 8 introduces new Chords and Phrases Tools that can be paired with your favorite Kontakt instruments to quickly spark ideas and unlock new creative possibilities. Leap opens a world of looping and experimentation, while Conflux, a new hybrid instrument using enhanced wavetable features, allows you to modulate organic and synth-based sounds in real-time. 

●  Kithara, available as part of Komplete 15 Collectorʼs Edition, is a cinematic collection of guitars and plucked string instruments transformed with creative performance techniques and lush sound design. From classical, flamenco, and steel guitars to the balalaika, cuatro, and ronroco, each instrument is recorded in stunning detail, creatively performed, and transformed with rich sound design. Kithara blends raw, organic tones with modern possibilities, letting you craft everything from delicate plucks to sweeping textures. 

Komplete 15 comes in four versions: Select, Standard, Ultimate, and Collectorʼs Edition. See exactly whatʼs in each version here. 

● Komplete 15 Select—the gateway to professional-grade sound is now available in three editions: 

○  Beats: Designed for beatmakers, and perfect for hip-hop and R&B 

○  Band: Featuring sampled instruments ideal for songwriting and jamming ideas. 

○  Electronic: Powerful tools for electronic music producers. 

●  Komplete 15 Standard Includes the new Kontakt 8 along with more than 95 pro-grade instruments and effects, over 40 Expansions, and over 50,000 sounds. Get Ozone 11 Standard, Massive X, and many more powerful tools. 

●  Komplete 15 Ultimate Includes over 150 premium instruments and effects, ranging from cutting-edge synths to detailed symphonic sample libraries, and more than 70 Expansion sound packs. Aliciaʼs Electric Keys, Ashlight, and Action Woodwinds are among the new products in Ultimate. 

●  Komplete 15 Collectorʼs Edition The complete production package with over 165 instruments and 120 Expansions, providing unparalleled resources for professional production, scoring, performance, and sound design. Fables, Valves Pro, and the brand-new Kithara are new additions to crown Native Instrumentsʼ richest collection yet. 

Newcomers to the world of Kontakt and Komplete can try Komplete Start, a vast collection of free plugins, synths, and effects. 

Link: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/

Learn more 

Komplete 15

Link: https://www.native-instruments.com/specials/komplete/komplete-15/

Pricing and availability 

Starting today, Komplete 15 is available from the NI Shop and select retailers. 

ProductUpdate Pricing Upgrade pricing MSRP
Komplete 15 Select (price for one Edition) N/A N/A $99 / €99 
Komplete 15 Standard $199 / €199 $499 / €499 from Select $599 / €599 
Komplete 15 Ultimate $399 / €399 $1099 / €1099 from Select $599 / €599 from Standard $1199 / €1199 
Komplete 15 Collectorʼs Edition $499 / €499 $1199 / €1199 from Standard $599 / €599 from Ultimate $1799 / €1799 
Kontakt 8 $99 / €99 $149 / €149 Crossgrade $299 / €299 
KitharaN/A N/A $199 / €199 

Special offer 

Order before September 30 and receive iZotopeʼs Neutron 4 professional mixing suite for free. 

ABOUT NATIVE INSTRUMENTS 

For over 25 years, Native Instruments has been at the forefront of musical innovation. Our technology has revolutionized how people express themselves through sound across the world. 

Today, we work to provide everyone with access to the worlds of music production, audio engineering, and DJing. Our portfolio contains industry leading products such as Komplete, Kontakt, Maschine, and Traktor. 

In June 2023, iZotope, Brainworx, and Plugin Alliance became part of Native Instruments, further strengthening the breadth of our offerings, the expertise of our team, and the potential to offer our community a streamlined customer experience. With our powers combined, we have engineering capabilities across integrated software and hardware, AI and machine learning, the cloud, and more. 

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Press Release

IK Multimedia T-RackS 6

Hits Made Easy

The iconic mixing and mastering flagship adds new processors,
a supercharged mastering console, side-chaining, improved metering,
convenient module management and much more.

September 5, 2024 – IK Multimedia, the leading innovator in music software and hardware, proudly announces the release of T-RackS 6, the latest generation of its acclaimed mixing and mastering software. With innovative new modules, improved capabilities, faster workflow and more effortless organization, T-RackS 6 expands on its legendary sound quality, speed and ease-of-use to offer everything musicians, producers and engineers need to craft the perfect track. 

The One-Stop Mixing and Mastering Suite
T-RackS 6 offers 60 world-class mixing and mastering processors, available individually in any DAW, as an all-in-one plug-in or as a standalone Mastering Console. Also included are T-RackS’s celebrated presets covering every instrument and genre, providing instant starting points and minimizing time spent tweaking so users can get their hits done.

From studio must-have compressors, EQs and channel strips, all leveraging IK’s industry-leading analog modeling technology, to hall, room, plate and spring reverbs based on some of the most iconic studios of all time, to cutting-edge digital processors and organic all-in-one units, T-RackS 6 offers every tool users could need to shape their mixes and masters.

New Generation Master Match
Users can more precisely shape their mix by selecting a reference from a track they love. The new Master Match X takes a mix from that starting point to a final, polished, distribution-ready master that shines with the same sonic aspects as the beloved reference track. It’s done automatically and then can be fine-tuned to adjust the results to match each user’s vision of perfection. 

Search Less and Save Time
The new Modules Manager allows users to manage which modules appear in their DAW, T-RackS 6 plug-in and Mastering Console. Users can now show or hide the plug-ins in their lists. They can conceal unowned processors or leave them visible to demo as needed – it’s all in users’ hands.

The Most Powerful Processors Ever
T-RackS 6 expands its plug-in collection with eight new modules. These new modules provide a wealth of options for mastering, mixing and creative sound design:

Master Match X: The next generation of intelligent mastering: instantly analyze a reference song to match EQ, balance, compression, limiting and more. With internal or external references and a wealth of controls, anyone can create professional-sounding masters almost instantly.

Channel Strip X: T-RackS’ most advanced channel strip ever, this versatile unit delivers EQ, de-essing, dynamics processing and transient shaping in a single lightning-fast unit, with tailored presets for various instruments and ensembles.

Bass ONE: Innovative, organic multi-algorithm processor that makes the low end thick, solid, clean, uncluttered, precise and powerful.

Lo-Fi Punch: This harmonics and dynamics multiprocessor can add and alter the audio texture, ranging from subtle warming to total squashing. It has dynamic tone shaping and convenient control to add textures, thickness, dimension, grit, life and movement.

Dual Spring: Spring reverb is one of the foundations of everybody’s sonic memories. Everything processed with a spring becomes fascinating, intense, dreamy and mysterious yet comfortable and familiar. The Dual Spring pushes the concept by adding never-before-seen parameters to a spring unit, such as selecting the spring material, using stereo or mono single reverb, reverb length, reverb stretch, and more. It offers classic analog tone with digital flexibility and convenience.

Delay Lab: This powerful delay unit adds movement, space and depth to vocals, instruments, rhythmic patterns and everything else. Its delay unit is clear and open-sounding, giving everything space and a sense of dimension.

Pusher: Saturation driven further. A unique 4-band processor that offers five different saturation types per band, along with envelope, drive and color controls. With limitless options, from subtle enhancement to trashing total distortion, it’s always musical and creative with all independent saturation types and settings per band.

Filter Fusion: This do-it-all filter processor offers five unique filter types, including a model of the iconic Moog® transistor ladder. It’s combined with a dizzying array of controls and options, including a step sequencer for rhythmic use and an innovative modulation joystick for incredibly nuanced and expressive effects.

Refined, Resizable GUI
The redesigned graphical user interface (GUI) is engineered for speed and functionality, providing a faster, more responsive experience and offering re-sizing to adapt to users’ workflow preferences. Each plug-in can now be resized on the DAW screen, even to tiny sizes, to keep them open while mixing, dramatically improving the mixing workflow and allowing more concentration on the sound.

Side-chaining
All T-RackS compressors have been updated to add side-chain input, which allows control of the dynamics using a different signal for added flexibility.

All New Mastering Console
T-RackS 6’s Mastering Console has been designed for a fast and smooth user experience. Users can import mixes and set a specific mastering chain per song, with instant total recall of the whole song’s chain and parameters on playback.

In addition to the dedicated song-based processing, a new master bus lets users add up to four additional processors that will be applied to the whole project to, for example, alter the color of the entire record with just a single post-EQ and apply a global final limiter. I/O metering on each module in the chain allows for an instant check of the gain staging and keeps all levels under control on a single page.

Preset Browser
Easily browse, find and check presets on a floating window with tags and a smart search function. Then, apply what’s needed to the project. 

New Metering
Accurate, extensive and complete audio metering is a must today. The T-RackS 6 multi-standard-compliant Loudness meter (EBU R128, ATSC A/85, OP-59, TR-B32) allows for immediate checks for the compliance of content audio tracks – true peak PPM, Dynamic Range and RMS – all with both graphical and numeric readout.

Sonogram and filter-based smooth RTA make T-RackS 6 Metering a true professional toolkit. The tailorable and customizable Metering View gives complete control over what to show or hide on the meters set on each project. 

Something for Everyone
T-RackS 6 will impress existing T-RackS users who want more control while having greater flexibility to customize and streamline workflows. New users will be blown away by this comprehensive suite of tools, which sounds fantastic and is easy to use.

A New Gateway
T-RackS 6 INTRO is a free version that offers immediate access to three essential modules for users to keep – the Classic Comp, the Classic EQ and the Master Match X lite – with the convenience and high-definition sound quality of paid T-RackS 6 versions. Users can also quickly explore and test any of the 60 available modules for 14 days without any commitment to buy, restrictions or white noise. Please note that porting modules from T-RackS 5 is only possible with a paid version of T-RackS 6.

Compatibility and Accessibility
T-RackS 6 is designed to be fully compatible with Mac and Windows platforms. It supports all major plug-in formats, Audio Units, VST 3 and AAX.

Pricing and Availability
T-RackS 6 can be downloaded now from the IK Multimedia online store and through IK authorized dealersworldwide at the following prices:**

T-RackS 6 INTRO Free* – 3 plug-ins, T-RackS Plug-in, Mastering Console

T-RackS 6 $/€99.99 – 19 plug-ins, T-RackS Plug-in, Mastering Console 

T-RackS 6 PRO $/€199.99 – 40 plug-ins, T-RackS Plug-in, Mastering Console

T-RackS 6 MAX $/€299.99 – 60 plug-ins, T-RackS Plug-in, Mastering Console


Existing T-RackS users can enjoy exclusive upgrade savings:

Upgrade to T-RackS 6 MAX

For existing owners of any T-RackS product: $/€199.99
For existing owners of 25+ T-RackS processors: $/€149.99***
For existing owners of 50+ T-RackS processors or T-RackS 5 MAX v2: $/€99.99***

Free plug-ins included

*No module porting from T-RackS 5.
**All pricing excluding taxes.
*** Via coupon automatically applied at checkout.

For more information about T-RackS 6, please visit:

www.ikmultimedia.com/tr6
www.ikmultimedia.com/tr6/video

A longer demo:


IK Multimedia. Sound Better.
www.ikmultimedia.com