TomislavEP
Senior Member
With the possibility that Native Instruments will have a summer sale on Komplete updates / upgrades, I was planning to update to Komplete 12. My main motive is probably the new "Play" series of Kontakt libraries that sound and feature-wise seem attractive for my personal style and workflow.
I know as a fact that those libraries require Kontakt 6 to run and that it is possible to install Kontakt 6 along with the Kontakt 5. However, it seems a bit redundant to me to use Kontakt 6 only for a few new libraries as it can probably (if I'm not mistaken) also run all those that work in Kontakt 5 and that includes all my libraries purchased thus far, both from Native Instruments and the 3rd party developers.
At the same time, I have absolutely no experience with switching to a higher version of Kontakt as I've been using it only in its 5th generation, since I've became a Komplete / Kontakt owner the first time when Komplete 9 was released. So I'm greatly concerned about the compatibility issues with my projects thus far which all use Kontakt 5 in some form.
My main DAW is REAPER and I have quite a few custom track and project templates I use on a regular basis. I'm guessing that uninstalling Kontakt 5 and trying to replace it completely with Kontakt 6 would mean that I would have to manually fix all my sessions that used Kontakt 5.
So, in your opinion, what would be the most sensible and painless solution here? Is there a way to ensure compatibility with the older sessions if switching to Kontakt 6 without too much hassle or the only way to go is keeping Kontakt 5 and using Kontakt 6 only for those newer libraries that require it to run?
Many thanks for your advice.
I know as a fact that those libraries require Kontakt 6 to run and that it is possible to install Kontakt 6 along with the Kontakt 5. However, it seems a bit redundant to me to use Kontakt 6 only for a few new libraries as it can probably (if I'm not mistaken) also run all those that work in Kontakt 5 and that includes all my libraries purchased thus far, both from Native Instruments and the 3rd party developers.
At the same time, I have absolutely no experience with switching to a higher version of Kontakt as I've been using it only in its 5th generation, since I've became a Komplete / Kontakt owner the first time when Komplete 9 was released. So I'm greatly concerned about the compatibility issues with my projects thus far which all use Kontakt 5 in some form.
My main DAW is REAPER and I have quite a few custom track and project templates I use on a regular basis. I'm guessing that uninstalling Kontakt 5 and trying to replace it completely with Kontakt 6 would mean that I would have to manually fix all my sessions that used Kontakt 5.
So, in your opinion, what would be the most sensible and painless solution here? Is there a way to ensure compatibility with the older sessions if switching to Kontakt 6 without too much hassle or the only way to go is keeping Kontakt 5 and using Kontakt 6 only for those newer libraries that require it to run?
Many thanks for your advice.