For general production, I think Komplete is more valuable.Good morning,
What would be the best choice for electronic music composition (trance, melodic techno)?
Komplet Ultimate seems to be more suitable for orchestral, scoring and less for more modern music, now perhaps a preconceived idea.
On this subject, for orchestral, scoring, choirs, Komplet 15 Ultimate is a good choice or better to choose banks like Oblion One, Audio Imperia Nucleus or others?
Thank you in advance for your response.
Arturia is more vintage synth specific.
Komplete has bigger and more expensive sample libraries.
Arturia is more synth geared and has more detailed emulations of old school synths. Great for vintage tunes and probably excellent for Synthwave.
NI has more modern influenced synths that said Arturia seems more active nowadays with Pigments it's flagship synth being more of a one stop modern synth workflow. It also has Minifreak and Minibrute for a more modern take on more vintage influenced synths. Massive X is a nice synth and sounds great but Arturia has better GUI IMO.
While NI isn't praised as much for emulations, Monark, is a great Minimoog, and Super 8 gives you that old school 80s Poly Sound. FM8 while old still is solid. Reaktor has user created emulations of almost everything, and once you get into sampling, I think that is where NI really shines. If you are a preset browser, NIs sample based presets are top notch especially once you need more standard acoustic/electro mechanical instruments, it is no competition. Arturia has a more niche sample concept of emulating old 80s digital gear which is great for character but for ultra realistic modern stuff isn't the right tools.
You can't necessarily go wrong with either but NI has a wider range of stuff (although now mostly samples), but still have many modern synths a little vintage stuff.
Problem with NI though is I think it is more slower paced than Arturia. Where i think NI in the 2000s - early 2010s where cutting edge. Massive was a huge plugin for them. But it took too long to develop a sequel and other companies took the shine.
Arturia kept a more steady approach but managing to work on modern concepts as well. They have also improved their emulations.
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