native instruments komplete ultimate 11 upgrade worth it

You'd think they'd push the boat out a bit there. Seemingly nothing new in the Reaktor Factory library that I didn't have in Reaktor 5. Don't get me wrong I love playing around with this sort of stuff when I'm bored, but these days I'm really wise to the fact that a lot of it is exactly that - something to play around with, not something which really ends up as 'your' sound, in your song. Flesh - again, an interesting idea, but something which seems like a gimmick more than anything else. It's like the same guy doing all the presets or something, lol. I really think that sound design wise, Native Instruments needs some fresh blood. I know, I'll probably come up with something interesting if I start from scratch, but dammit I do kind of rely on being given some usable sounds that I can start with. I felt like I could be navigating through the presets in Kontour, Spark or Skannar XT, they sounded that similar. Sure there's a few interesting sounds in there, but going through the presets to get an idea what it does, I couldn't help thinking that I'm just listening to the same old boilerplate, plastic sounding Native Instruments crud.

But what else is there Reaktor wise in Ultimate 11? Well, there's Forms. That just seems like a giant step backward to me, although I'm sure someone will tell me I'm doing it wrong. There doesn't seem to be any way to just skip to the next one, and each time you load a preset the browser skips back up to the top so you have to remember where you were and scroll down. Apart from the new preset functionality - it's such a PITA to navigate around those presets as opposed to using the menu to fire up snapshots. I really wanted to upgrade to Reaktor 6 since I love Reaktor and use it all the time, and admittedly Blocks looks like a lot of fun so I'm happy about that. I think it's been slowly dawning on me that Native Instruments has shot its bolt and is unlikely to do anything really exciting again. But having already seen what was in it, I had never been that excited about upgrading. I guess I always had it in the back of my mind that once the Komplete Ultimate 11 upgrade hit the sales, I'd update it as I have every version of Komplete since 8. Gah why did I bother updating to Komplete Ultimate 11

Native instruments komplete ultimate 11 upgrade worth it