KOMPLETE 8 : anything I should know before I install?

Gents,
 My new Komplete 8 was at my door when I got home, and just wondering if there are any known issues, glitches,hiccups involved with installing it? I think you can see my setup at the bottom of this post.
 
Thanks in advance,
Michael Smith

I don't have anything to compare it to, not upgrading, but first time user. I'll give you my impressions later, but I think the difference from 7 is the pianos, the Hammond B3 and C3 stuff, and I think Kontakt 5 was upgraded for 64 bit?

KONTAKT has been 64 bit since version 3.5

I got Komplete 8 as a new user so I can't comment on whether upgrading would be worth it. It certainly was a great value. As you have already found, the installation takes forever because there are 12 DVDs of software and content. My big thing was to be sure to customize the installation to put the libraries on my sample drive.

The program is a great value. The organ library is pretty decent. I actually thought the New York Philharmonic piano was ok if you played with the settings a bit (it defaults to a cathedral space for the performance which is absurd.) I have Ivory II so it is definitely NOT as good as that. I have had a lot of fun playing with the strings library. I am sure it is not the calibre of Hollywood strings but it is very serviceable to me.

The amount of content makes it daunting to go through everything.

I think I made a 5 hour goof last night. 2 days of lack of sleep from fighting landlord in court probably not best mental state to have done the installation.
 
Everything installed perfectly ON MY DESKTOP...but not to X1. I think there must have been an installation path prompt that i did not do correctly. Does anyone who has done a full install of new komplete know if that's what happened? And if so, can you give me some advice as to how to proceed?
 
I don't know if there is a way to route the files from where they are on my hard drive to get them into X1? Or do i need to delete all the Komplete files, then do the whole installation again, with a different path selected?
 
Any help greatly appreciated, I'm a not too tech-y singer, I've used X1 successfully many times already importing tracks, doing vocals, and sending them back out, this is the first time i am trying to add some new stuff, for my own songwriting and recording.
 
Michael Lee Smith
 

Michael Lee


I think I made a 5 hour goof last night. 2 days of lack of sleep from fighting landlord in court probably not best mental state to have done the installation.
 
Everything installed perfectly ON MY DESKTOP...but not to X1. I think there must have been an installation path prompt that i did not do correctly. Does anyone who has done a full install of new komplete know if that's what happened? And if so, can you give me some advice as to how to proceed?
 
I don't know if there is a way to route the files from where they are on my hard drive to get them into X1? Or do i need to delete all the Komplete files, then do the whole installation again, with a different path selected?
 
Any help greatly appreciated, I'm a not too tech-y singer, I've used X1 successfully many times already importing tracks, doing vocals, and sending them back out, this is the first time i am trying to add some new stuff, for my own songwriting and recording.
 
Michael Lee Smith
 

I don't own X1, only 8.5, but in case it works the same: did you rescan the VST-folder? In 8.5 you can choose to rescan that folder everytime you start Sonar, but that can become annoying so maybe you turned off that option. If so, manually rescan the folder. You can find the option for that somewhere in er... the option screens (again, I don't own X1). If you did rescan the folder, maybe you installed the new instruments in another folder: try to find out where the new VST's are and add that folder to the folders to be scanned by X1.

and make sure you run them all in standalone mode first ;-)