Komplete 15: what PC specs?

komthusr

Would anyone from NI reveal what computer they use to run all of Komplete 15 instruments without any glitch? What CPU, RAM, disk size, etc. Thank you.

Vocalpoint

I am not from NI - I would guess the machines they use internally are much higher spec - but the minimum specs for Komplete 15 are all over the place now:

OS Compatibility	macOS 12 to 14 Windows 10 to 11
Memory Requirement	Windows, Mac: 4 GB (6 GB Recommended)
Storage Requirement	Windows, Mac: 60 GB 850 GB (All Options Installed)
CPU Requirement	Mac: Intel Core i5 and Faster or  Apple M1 and Faster   Windows: Intel Core i5 and Faster
Software Requirement	No
Internet Connection Required	Yes
OpenGL Graphics Requirement	2.1

And it goes without saying that a quality audio interface (Focusrite, Presonus, UAD, RME etc) will make it all perform glitch free.

As long as your target machine meets these fairly basic levels - you should be golden.

VP

Vocalpoint

I am not from NI - I would guess the machines they use internally are much higher spec - but the minimum specs for Komplete 15 are all over the place now:

OS Compatibility	macOS 12 to 14 Windows 10 to 11
Memory Requirement	Windows, Mac: 4 GB (6 GB Recommended)
Storage Requirement	Windows, Mac: 60 GB 850 GB (All Options Installed)
CPU Requirement	Mac: Intel Core i5 and Faster or  Apple M1 and Faster   Windows: Intel Core i5 and Faster
Software Requirement	No
Internet Connection Required	Yes
OpenGL Graphics Requirement	2.1

And it goes without saying that a quality audio interface (Focusrite, Presonus, UAD, RME etc) will make it all perform glitch free.

As long as your target machine meets these fairly basic levels - you should be golden.

VP

JesterMgee

Always a difficult question to answer, that's like asking what the length of string is to be considered long?

The specs above will "run" an instance of Kontakt or Massive but would likely not be suitable at all for any moderately serious DAW project. 16GB of RAM would be my minimum aim (32 ideally these days) and if you want any performance, an AMD 5 series or i7 processor or better would be the aim and of course a decent audio interface is important.

Depends also on what DAW you use, how many tracks you plan on having, what effects you load your project up on, what Audio Interface you have, what sample rate and buffer settings you work at, do you use ASIO on Windows, what SSD and read speed does it have or will you use a HDD due to the library size, is it internal or USB attached, will your tracks be Kontakt "sample based" tracks (requiring large amounts of RAM and fast disk read speeds) or will you use more heavy CPU dependant synths like Massive and FM8, does your DAW efficiently split the work of processing over multiple cores and threads (and do you understand how that works so as to not overload cores)…. Many variables which all account for the overall performance and nothing can be guaranteed to be "glitch free" for all situations.