[Giveaway] Share your best tips and win Komplete 15

Kaiwan_NI · 2024-09-02T13:25:19+00:00

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Komplete 15 bundle from native instruments

Do you have some killer tips and tricks for using Native Instruments products? Now's your chance to show them off and win a free license of Komplete 15.

Komplete 15 is almost here

Get ready, because Komplete 15 is almost here. From Kontakt 8 to iZotope Ozone 11, Session Percussionist to Alicia's Electric Keys, this bundle packs in all the exciting new releases from the past two years. It really is your ultimate toolkit for music production, covering every step from start to finish.

Check out all the instruments, effects, and sounds we've got in store:

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

Enter our raffle

Exclusively for our community members, we're giving away free copies of Komplete 15. All you need to do is share your tips and tricks for any Native Instruments product. Whether it's a tutorial on using our instruments for a specific genre, a setup technique with your gear or software, or a creative hack for composing, arranging, or songwriting, we want to see it.

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Click the "New Post" button on the right side of this page, select "Discussion", and share your tips and tricks in the post.
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Comment under this thread and include a link to your post so we can check it out.

Prizes

Komplete 15 Collector's Edition
Komplete 15 Ultimate
Komplete 15 Standard
Komplete 15 Select Beat
Komplete 15 Select Band
Komplete 15 Select Electronic

Please note that the free licenses of Komplete 15 are not-for-resale.

The winners will be announced on September 23, 2024. Can't wait to see what you all have under your sleeves. 👀

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DunedinDragon

Here's a few of my "learned lessons" you can use as tips:

Bass Guitar:
I often switch between using different types of bass guitars depending on the sound I'm after. My two most-used bass libraries are Session Bassist - Prime Bass and Upright Bass. I find it a good idea to use a velocity limiter tool such as Ableton's Velocity Limiter tool in front of the libraries to limit the velocities to avoid fret sounds I don't want. Usually limiting them to around 100 or 99 and slightly increasing the drive parameter to give you a slight convex EQ bump will give a nice rounded sound and still allow you to produce punchy fret sounds if you need them for accents. And don't forget to go to the Amps & FX page and add an amp like the Bass Invader and a cabinet along with adjustments to the Bass EQ to get a very realistic live sound. On the out tab you can adjust the output volume to increase punchiness and on the main tab you can trim the relevant frequencies for the timbre you want your bass to have. And of course save all your settings as a custom preset.

Drums:
I've got all the various NI Abbey Road drum kits as well as Studio Drummer. Normally I like to use Studio Drummer for the actual track, but I often like to explore different grooves from some of the other libraries and maybe even mix and match them. So I'll start with one track that has Studio Drummer and use a different track to load up different Abbey Road drum kits and explore their grooves. That way I can mix ones form different libraries by just dragging an Abbey Road groove into the track that has my Studio Drummer and see how it works. This gives me a much wider range of potential grooves that what's contained in just one library.

Also don't overlook all the powerful options built into the mixer and options tab. You've got lots of different options for different kicks, snares, hi-hats, toms…etc. Mixing and matching these options can really tailor the sound of your drum kit especially on Studio Drummer. And don't overlook the compressor on things like the snares or crashes to get that really polished feel on your drums along with the velocity and mapping available on the options tab.

Keys:
You can never have enough options when it comes to keys whether it's pianos, organs or synths. I normally have at least two different keys on most projects whether it's a piano and B3 organ or various synths or pads. Typically only one will be used throughout the song and the other helps in building dynamics during a chorus or bridge. Even some clever noise like raindrops can be useful in establishing a unique feel for a given moment in a song. Even strings, woodwinds, horns and choirs work better if they come in at specific strategic moments rather then throughout the piece.

Performance:
If you find yourself in a situation where your response time is being impacted due to the number of libraries in use it might be worth your time to make a guick audio track from some of your more heavyweight libraries in the project once you get them stable and use those instead of the MIDI tracks for keeping your response time up while working on other more demanding instrument tracks.

That's all I can think of right now and since it's Sunday and NFL premier week I need to get back to the games…

chpiatt

My tip is that there is a way to get user presets to show up as factory presets in Komplete Kontrol that not a lot of people know about:

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35738/user-presets-in-factory-tab-in-komplete-kontrol

AndromedaX8

I figured out how to insert the link, so here it is again.
Thank you so much again for this amazing opportunity and good luck everyone! :)

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35701/create-your-own-unique-multi-instruments-in-kontakt-komplete-15-giveaway-entry

Greg K

My tip for the contest can be found here.

I hope this helps someone create a realistic bigger guitar sound in the box.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35742/doubling-the-same-guitar

higen

Comming from elektron gear, i was very pleased to experience i could use some of my habbits on Maschine

Been doing this since i got my Maschine MK1

Parameter Lock - the elektron way — Community (native-instruments.com)

michael wilson

Session guitar tips:

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35752/session-guitars

GeekDog

I'm looking forward to Komplete 15!

Here's my tip about using Tonal Balance Control for mixing, especially for getting Sub-Bass levels correct:

Mixing with Tonal Balance Control

Big Business 718

If you use Maschine as a plugin in your DAW like me, A hack i use when i want to tune an 808 sample to the Key of C so i can play it across the Keyboard along with my production easier, is to load the 808 sample in Maschine ,arm the track Maschine is on in your DAW, make sure the 808 is playing across your Keyboard controller. Now what i like to do is create another instrument track with kontakt and load a piano patch, arm that track as well so now the kontakt Piano and 808 sample in Maschine are playing at the same time across your Keyboard. Now i just hit the C on my Keyboard repeatedly while turning the pitch/Gate knob on the Maschine controller changing the pitch of the 808 until its playing the same note im pressing on my keyboard.I usually play the higher C notes when i do this because its easier to hear when the 808 is playing the same note in the high register.

Berlin Zimbo

Maschine with external effects on a send

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35760/maschine-with-external-effects-on-a-send

westlalas

Good luck all ! Here's my tip for bassline :

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35767/tips-and-tricks-nice-bassline

Rol

Lovely, exciting!

My post; perhaps I can help out anyone as well with this!

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35770/tips-for-installation-komplete-14-collectors-native-access-and-other-drives-than-c

LXNDR_BE

Very exiting indeed,

here my tip for a better/easier overall MixDown in Maschine, specially for Techno with lot of low frequencies, but can be used in any genre.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35777/maschine-techno-mixdown-made-easy-tips

LXNDR_BE

Because I like sharing, here is another one to get real low subbasslines

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35781/maschine-real-low-subbasslines-tips

Otherside Sound

Hi! Here are my trick with FM8!

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35785/fm8-sidechain-duck-effect-with-fm-morphing-of-any-sound

JBMcD

I am using K 14 Collectors Edtion as well as Cubase 13 on a windows platform. My hack, though I am sure I’m not the only one doing this is………..

When I am unable to find the exact sound I am looking for. I often record my part on one track in Cubase then duplicate the same part on another track. Then I change the snapshot/preset using a totally different synth or different sound pack. I wish I was able to layer multiple sound packs in Kontakt 7, maybe in Kontakt 8?

I also use the Dice which are present in several of the knotakt sound packs to randomize the sound of one (or more) of the snapshot/preset.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/35788/tips/p1?new=1

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