Should I wait till black friday is the question.Summer Sales are on at Plugin Boutique! Flintpope has announced that some of its previously paid for Reaktor instruments are now available as a free download from the NI Reaktor User Library. We can do all our shopping while sipping or coffees or Johnny Walkers blacks with our egg nog.lol. Its strange being a music producer in a “black friday” world. I ind of like having “everything” in all my libraries but I’d like to see what black friday brings. 399 from ult 11 to 12, or 599 for everything. I included links so others can see what we’re talking about. The 30 additional expansion packs and corresponding $400 up-charge to Ultimate Collector’s Edition hold no interest for me at all. There are some additional libraries in Ultimate that I wouldn’t mind having but another $400? Yikes! On the fence regarding that one.
That $199 upgrade gives more bang for the buck so I’ll probably do it. I’m going through the same questioning about Komplete 12 with the same Oct. Since NI went to 64bit during 5 and upgraded the Native Access license manager and ironed out those problems over this last year, I think it comes down to if you want the new stuff or not. Doesn’t appear as big a deal as 4 to 5 was. Mikehalloran wrote:There are three new instruments and the upgrade price of $99 goes up in November. Other than that, K6 on the surface looks almost the same as K5, but I didn't dig deep yet and also still don't know if Kontakt Player is a different GUI and feature set from Kontakt, or just a licensing cue. So I'm wondering if this means future revs will replace and overwrite, as Kontakt 5 and earlier retain their version number in the app and plug-in file names. It is not called Kontakt 6 (at least, the Kontakt Player isn't) it installs as Kontakt. It seems faster overall, to launch and to load, but there might be efficiencies specific to any KP version. Kontakt Player 6 doesn't seem to have a way to get a keyboard for quick auditions of sounds when you don't have a real MIDI keyboard hooked up, but maybe that's only available in full-license Kontakt or got moved in their setup workflow.
So now I have both, and was able to compare side by side. I bought a new Kontakt library yesterday that requires K6, so Native Access cued me to upgrade, which confused me as I thought Kontakt Player had just been a license level thing for a few years now.
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