This brings us neatly to Komplete 9, the latest iteration of NI’s cost-saving über-bundle. Since the release of Generator, of course, NI has developed into one of the powerhouses of music software, expanded into digital DJing and even moved into hardware. Generator was a modular software synthesiser that served as a development system for many of NI’s later stand-alone instrument plugins and eventually mutated into Reaktor, which is the processing backbone of the company’s new Monark monosynth. The company is rapidly joining the ranks of firmly established industry mainstays, with a product portfolio to match. Native Instruments may be just a baby in comparison to hardware veterans like Moog and Roland, but the company is now approaching its twentieth birthday, having launched with Generator way back in 1996. It seems strange to talk about software developers having long and illustrious histories. Bruce Aisher gets to grips with the latest version of NI’s flagship software bundle. Ten years on from its launch, Komplete is bigger and better than ever.
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