It might be worth the money, but not a good value...unless
If you already had komplete 7, it's not that good of a deal. If you only had 2-5, then it's a great deal.
IMO Miroslav has a much richer sound and seems to mix easier, when it comes to RnB/Neo Soul. Session strings is cool, but sounds more like standard orchestral stuff to me. They said it was for pop, rnb, soul. But, it's too "heavy". The scoops and articulations are cool. But, if MIroslav was 64 bit, I'd be all over it!
I'm still playing around with funk guitarist. I like it, but it would have been a much better value, if it had a non-strum option too. Electri6ity is just too expensive for me. I'm not that picky about guitars. But, Komplete don't seem to have that many guitar samples in it.
The Bass guitar library is cool. Not quite as good as Trillian. But, good enough! If I had not already purchased Trillian when the scarby library was in Komplete, I probably would have not purchased Trillian. So, now I'm bass heavy and I probably would have got more value from Komplete 8 Ult if it traded just one of the bass libraries for a Guitar library.
Plenty of Pianos/keys...maybe too many. After loading Komplte 5/6/7/8 I pretty much have at least 50 different piano instruments and more like 200 if you include electric pianos. Dang, man. let's trade some of these sounds in for some other instruments.
Komplete * Ultimate would have been a much better value if they addressed weaknesses found in their prior compilations.
Bass- They did that up perfect! (getting scarbee)
Rythym guitar- Pretty good, but not great
Extended strings- Did a pretty good job.
Guitars in general - Nope
Horns/Brass - Big mistake! Nope
I'm not asking NI to give me more. That would be greedy. I'm just saying they could "fill in the blanks" a little better.
But...But...the BIGGEST mistake is when they dropped Kore 2! 10 thousand sounds and no way to manage them! I keep using the same sounds over because I don't want to spend a week learning obscure sounds. Maybe they have something cool coming out to replace Kore 2? I hope so.
That's enough rambling. Back to beat making, I go.