But they all share the very reflective and shiny fingerprint-magnet monitoring LED panel on the top. The hard plastic of the KA1 and 2 is outclassed by the metal sandwiching of the KA6 MkII. The Komplete PackageĪll three of the interfaces follow the current Native Instruments design philosophy of smooth lines, square corners and deeply black, minimally featured surfaces. The MkII goes for a completely different aesthetic but retains all the most important features. At a time when everybody else was making fiddly little 1U rack height devices with all the controls on the front panel, it had a very cool volume dial on the top.
It was a smart little box made from an aluminium extrusion and featured the six channels of audio (four analogue inputs and outputs, and S/PDIF) that gave it its name. This is the successor to the long-lived Komplete Audio 6, originally released in 2011. This has a solid feature set at a decent price, but there's something a bit extra that may well tempt you away from the competitors. But following on a couple of months behind is the Komplete Audio 6 MkII. The first two, the Komplete Audio 1 and Komplete Audio 2 are sub- £100 $150 two in/two out jobbies that if it wasn't for their striking looks would be lost amongst the crowd of similar offerings from many other companies.
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Into the crowded market of portable USB audio interfaces, Native Instruments have released three new boxes. If you want an affordable audio interface that also offers control of your modular system, read on.