SGordB
Active Member
If you are only looking at pianos? You would be better off grabbing the True Keys sale if it is still on. Komplete is great. And you are getting a lot more than pianos. But you really have to go for the Ultimate for the full piano array. And I don't think it is on sale right now. So close to $1K. I would grab True Keys and wait for the sale next June. It is usually half off.
The True Keys offer is a great deal, although its pianos (in my view) are almost the opposite of cinematic: they're super clean and detailed - I think of them as "reference grand pianos." There are no built-in presets beyond basically light and full versions. Definitely one can turn them into colourful cinematic/epic/scoring pianos with tweaking, but the advantage of the basic Ultimate package (not the cheap, "select" one) is that it includes all the Kontakt acoustic pianos except Alicia's Keys (I don't believe there are any other exceptions), and those 5 pianos are loaded with characterful presets right out of the box and great tweakability that way. They're much more of a palette for piano textures while True Keys is substantially better as an unvarnished solo/studio/concert piano VI - again, very much IMHO. So that Komplete package is expensive now, but will hopefully be as cheap as $200 again as an upgrade by the time the next wave of seasonal discounts washes in.