Best Hip Hop NI software for Free

Siras WorthDMention

I have many options in my Native Access to download non-installed software, but I can't find articles to help me: What is hands down the best free software download for Hip Hop production with NI MK2?

Milos

I would say Komplete Start is the best for starters.

Simply go to the Native Instruments, then Products, then click Free, then click Komplete Start.

You will get the good range of instruments and couple of good effects!

Let me know if you like them!

LostInFoundation

I suppose OP is talking about instruments and expansions he already own (“I have many options in my Native Access to download non-installed software”). And that probably he already owns the products from Komplete Start

In NI site you can make selections that will show you expansions that are been thought mainly with a specific genre in mind. And there, opening the products pages, have a listen to some demos to see if those sounds are what you are looking for.

This link should bring you directly to the Hip Hop/R&B selection

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/catalog/software/expansions/hip-hop-r-b/

You can then find also different videos on youtube focusing on that aspect. I link you at some, but not the “best” or more complete ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8KURNNJpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SNYairrsI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Cs72HnVZo

Of course it all depends on what products you already have in your account. Some of the latest instruments (like Rudiments from the Jeff Gibbons video or Sway) have been thought as “Hip Hop instruments”, but if you already own others (like 40s Very own drums or 40s Very own keys or Empire Breaks) they can do the job without buying new things, if you already own them.

And of course it all comes down on what kind of sounds you are after. Expansions like Concrete Sun are focused on specific things like Japanese Hip Hop, but maybe you want to do Madagascarian Hip Hop 😂😂😂. Only you can know.

I would suggest to use the first link to NI site and have a listen to the demos to decide by yourself and then watch specific videos about the products you are more interested into.

But remember: you can use any of the other instruments to make Hip Hop…it all comes down to how you use them… (Violins are surely instruments that have not been created to make Hip Hop (difficult to think about Stradivari with a baseball hat on his head saying “Yo Guarnieri, check out my newest creation. Peace out!” 😂), but a good part of mid 90s Boom Bap was created using them 😏)

PK The DJ

Violins you say? Quite prominent in Gangsta's Paradise. 😁

LostInFoundation

Correction: sorry I was thinking about Coolio other song where he used Pachelbel’s Canon…

On Gangsta’s Paradise he just ”got inspired” by the whole Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder 😂😂😂