How good are the Reaktor instruments in Komplete Elements?

I have gotten some cool sounds with the free Mikro Prism instrument in the Reaktor player, and the Carbon synth has a lot of sounds with all of the adjustable parameters. So I am wondering how the instruments in Komplete Elements compare to those.

 

ok, just checked the included package and you get quite the stuff with that. how much did it cost? 49 eur? really? haha, it's lovely that people underestimate the value NI puts out. ok, let's see:

photone - you say you know carbon, photone is carbon on acid, twice as much stuff, it has two filters with twice as many filter versions, serial/parallel routing, more oscillator types, also, more fx, oscs can be fm'd (something carbon2 sadly doesn't). and it has a few hundreds of gorgeous presets (carbon2 has a can full of trash presets if compared to photone's collection).

metaphysical function - ambient machine, creates soundscapes, drones and some rhythmic stuff. it sounds wonderful. two banks of included presets are pure inspirational magic.

aerobic - I really love this one, it's a sine (+sine fm)/noise based drum synthesizer with included sequencer. it's quite flexible. I choose a preset, disable the uninteresting sounds (it has 6 engines, each with its own sequencer and a mixer, where you can mix the outputs of those 6), tweak the interesting ones to an even more interesting ones, sequence some rhythms and record the output as loop. if you know your drumsynths, this one's pretty awesome, imo. has a hundred or so of presets, too.

oki computer 2 - wavetable synth with morphing wavetable osc, one filter (several of its outputs can be mixed together, though, only one set of cutoff and q parameters, though), two envelopes and some waveshaping features. also you get an lfo, table, and some bitreduction and chorus on ouput. it's quite fun for those 8-bit chipsounds, but I've found you can use it for many other things, say, morphing pads. it's not as full featured as photone or metaphysical, though.

steampipe 2 - "physical modelling" synth, not like prism, though. I'm not sure what it does, really, but it's got some nice "steamy" patches, think flutes and some weird stringlike soundscapes. you can get an (i suppose early) version of steampipe in the now free sync modular, though (that's like reaktor's granddad, which in some cases (like steampipe's case) sounds exactly the same. I don't use this one too much.

reaktor spark - it's, well, a subtractive synthesizer but with built-in feedback. this thing can GROWL and RUMBLE like nothing else. I also quite like it for pads and atmospheric stuff, even though I've heard people like it for bass. but it can do lots of things, NI has a separate page for that with demos. quite a lot of presets, too.

49 euros for all this. sheesh. and you get some more stuff with elements

if you learn these, you got a very solid set of tools on your hands.
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and this brings up a question. if komplete elements cost 49 euros and include spark, then what good is having spark sold separately for, once again, 49 euros (but just spark)? what, why?

 

Yeah, whiskey tango foxtrot? No point at all!

Imagine how many different instruments and presets you get if you go for Komplete. It's so cheap that buying standalone Reaktor and Massive, for example, makes no sense at all. Plus you get Absynth and FM8 too!

C'mon. You know you want them. 50+ Reaktor instruments with hundreds of presets. Same for Absynth, FM8 and Massive. That's before adding in Kontakt samples, which you could probably have fun mutating in the aforementioned products

 

Ok. Thanks for the information!