Komplete 5 in Sonar

mike you can do the lot in one go, as the number you get I'm guessing is specific to komplete and not the seperate components.

you don't need to activate it using your DAW. just do "offline" activation, save the file to the desktop, drop it to a USB pen drive... load it up in ya browser.. then you'll get another file..

again wack that on ya pen drive.. import into ya service center app.. and all is well with the world..

you might as well do that while your installing the sample disks... as thats the bit that took me ages.

might as well download the updates as well.. there's plenty of em.

well EW's around a lot also and he knows the things far better than I do, I'm relativly new to using it. Some of the posters here are also on the NI forum.

you can install it on 2 machines.. with the service center, I have on my laptop / main machine. Only thing with that for me is , my main pc is a dual boot, so I can only have it on XP and not both XP / vista... oh well.

some of the things take a lot of learning , other things are more straight forward to get into. After you get it all set-up check out the community bit where people upload patches also.

the one for reaktor is massive, I've not even started using that yet to it's full potential.

I did find the kontakt videos far better than the manual personally, they are on youtube or as a download also.

you might want to get kore player also (I use the full one).. as you can integrate your sounds into that.. mix and match sounds / fx and morph between sounds.

You can use the NI activation service center.. you will need to install that also.. and you can select offline installation then save the file(s) to a dongle and open them in a pc with internet.

then it will tell you what to do from there

not sure about the loop thing that your on about. I mean you have to sign up to get into the parts, much like here really with your "my account" and "forum" usernames.

you should be fine now after the naf file is imported into service centre. the only thing I changed after install was upping my asio buffers a bit as well they were quite low and since then no problems.

you can change the quality mode of some of the synths also, but from what I recall you have a quad? so not really something you have to worry about.. while messing about with the synths you might as well get the other updates etc going to save a bit of time. I always set up such things in the day, and they auto start late just I go to sleep and have the pc shut itself down. in the morning I have new updates =)

I stopped using NI stuff due to the service centre,

Its appaling---when I turn on my V-synth (connected via USB) the service centre unauthorises my software), when I go on to the NI website to reautherise it wont do it because they have screwed up my account and have to wait till they answer emails.

I will NEVER buy anything from NI again

ORIGINAL: artsoul

I stopped using NI stuff due to the service centre,

Its appaling---when I turn on my V-synth (connected via USB) the service centre unauthorises my software), when I go on to the NI website to reautherise it wont do it because they have screwed up my account and have to wait till they answer emails.

?

There's no reason why that should be happening. Contact support and PM me your support ticket number; I'll get some people to look at it.

@ Mike- make sure you run everything in standalone and rebuild databases/set library paths where appropriate before trying to use them as plugins- you'll save yourself lots of grief. Always run any NI instrument in standalone immediately after an install or update; otherwise the plugin may not initialize correctly (or at all).

ew

Just as I said, Mike. Run all of them in standalone.

If AP isn't working in standalone, check your audio/MIDI settings. Also, remember that all the sample players load up empty...

ew

The routing tab in audio/MIDI settings is where you configure your ins and outs for all NI products.

ew

ew

Sorry, Mike- by the time I'd put that up, you'd already found it *blush*.

ew

Mike:
Once you spend some time with it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without some of NI's stuff. Kontakt 2 is my go-to sampler and B4II can't be beat for Hammond sounds, and if you have multiple MIDI keyboards, each can play a different manual. FM7 - what can I say? Everything Yamaha did and then some for FM synthesis. Absynth can get some wild ethereal sounds, and the possibilities in Reaktor 5 are something else. One of my favorite ensembles in Reaktor is Steampipe (I think there are a couple of different versions). As you can guess from the names, I have the older original Komplete series.