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KOMPLETE 12 ULTIMATE Virtual Instrument & Plug-in Suite

Anyone who’s recently had their email or bank website ‘revamped and improved’ will tell you that change isn’t always for the better. Along with new features, layouts and graphic design eye candy, major updates can often sabotage long-favoured ways of working, make certain workflows harder to implement and altogether delete features that you thought were irreplaceable.

Audio software developers are by no means immune to the latter so it’s always with a combination of excitement and trepidation that most of us embark on major updates to our mission-critical audio programs.

My version of Native Instruments’ Komplete was getting pretty long in the tooth so I was happy to upgrade to the the newly-released Komplete 12 version and see what new sonic treats were in store. I chose the Ultimate version that includes some interesting new instruments and effects, as well as 20 expansion

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