50% off Native Instruments upgrade

sykodelic


NI is running crazy sale on upgrades 50%off.  If you own any version of Komplete you can upgrade for 115 dollars.  I just upgraded from version 2 for 229 last month which i thought was a good deal but 115 that's crazy cool.

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great deal!

Let's all go out and get Kore 2!


:-)

Ah yes....

So they are....

Here's a little email correspondence with them on the topic

Hi NI folks,
I am still running Kompakt. Can I take advantage of the sale crossgrade offer to
Kontakt. If so, what will the price be. I\'d appreciate being offered the same figure
as those upgrading from Kontakt 1-3 because when I purchased Kompakt I had no idea it
would never receive upgrades.
......

Thank you for contacting Native Instruments!

Unfortunately there are no crossgrade options from the old and discontinued
"Kompakt" to "Kontakt 4", you´d have to purchase the full version.

If you have any more questions please don´t hesitate to contact us via this E-Mail!

Well, gosh guys!. I'm so thrilled. When I bought Kompakt it was going to be your standard sample player. Kontakt was for recording samples. All the third party libraries were going to work with Kompakt. Then you dropped it, no upgrades, nothing. So all the modern libraries won't work with it.

You gotta love the customer service. Ah well, guess I won't be spending any money with them. Geez, would it have killed them to offer me the crossgrade price?.

Shame there is no upgrade path from Kontakt to Komplete. I picked up Kontakt on the last half price crossgrade offer as I has Steven Slate EX. I also have the Scarbee - A200 and Guitar Rig 4 XE.
 
Maybe they will do a deal when Komplete 8 is released.

For those of you who ordered upgrades from NI, how long did it take for the products to arrive? I chose the free shipping option, which they state takes 6 to 8 business days. It's been 9 business days and I'm starting to get impatient.

That's what's bothering me. I got an order confirmation with an order number but no UPS tracking number. It could have gotten lost in a spam trap, though. I'll wait another day before I pester NI about it.

Did you get a follow-up email from NI when the product shipped?

EDIT: Never mind, I just now got an email from NI saying the order shipped late last night, 8.5 days after placing the order. Glad I didn't pay for expedited shipping! That would have been a rip-off, paying for overnight shipping and still waiting more than a week for the goodies.

I guess I wasn't the only holdout, then.  I recall that Kontakt 4 was initially greeted mostly with yawns, since it wasn't apparent what benefits it brought. I'm not sure I know even now. But I do know that I've had to pass up some interesting libraries that required 4.

craigb

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...takes 5 or 6 days to install and update too.  ( i got komplete 7 )

Heh...  How many discs come with Komplete 7?

As I recall, there's:
1 Komplete disc
9 Kontakt discs, which also contain all the included libraries you get with Komplete.
2 Battery discs

And when you are running the install, it has the nerve to say, "This may take a few minutes".

That makes me feel better that they weren't just discriminating against me personally.

I have, after all, said a few mean things about NI over the years and they could have been holding a grudge or something. They are Germans, after all. (Oh jeez, there I did it again. I love Liebfraumilch, Gummi Bären and Mercedes - really.)

So it looks like Monday is the delivery date, then. Too bad, because I have to work that day. (Heh. Like that's gonna happen.)