Hi - I have had Komplete 8 Ultimate since, I believe, prior to the shift to Native Access to install/update/upgrade components.
 
I just upgraded to Komplete 11 Ultimate, and it directs me to use Native Access for downloading and installing everything.
 
SO - here is my question - my Komplete 8 Ultimate sample libraries are currently in a folder named Komplete 8 - will Native Access be smart enough to put any library updates or new updates into the existing folder, or will it essentially duplicate everything that already exists?
 
Thanks, just don't want to have to mess around with 'fixing' things that have gone sideways, 
 
Bob Bone
 

Minimize your issues by downloading and installing Native Access now before you attempt to install K11 and go under Preferences** and configure your File locations.
Then let it sync with K8 installation.
 
**Click on the icon of the person in the upper right.
 

Bob,
 
K11 Ultimate comes on a portable hard drive. Once you install the latest Native Access (it works great now, BTW), you'll see all of the uninstalled content on the hard drive, once it is plugged in, as well as already installed content and any outstanding updates. Like Steven suggests, I recommend installing and running Native Access now, before you start installing K11U. Any content in K11U that you already have will only be updated if there is an update. In the "Uninstalled" section, you can choose what to install.
 
Native Access was pretty buggy a couple of years ago, but I have had zero issues with it over the last year.
 
Regards,
Dan

dcumpian
Bob,
 
K11 Ultimate comes on a portable hard drive. Once you install the latest Native Access (it works great now, BTW), you'll see all of the uninstalled content on the hard drive, once it is plugged in, as well as already installed content and any outstanding updates. Like Steven suggests, I recommend installing and running Native Access now, before you start installing K11U. Any content in K11U that you already have will only be updated if there is an update. In the "Uninstalled" section, you can choose what to install.
 
Native Access was pretty buggy a couple of years ago, but I have had zero issues with it over the last year.
 
Regards,
Dan

FYI - I purchased K11U last year in a chain of upgrades.  I did NOT get a hard drive.
 
 

BobF

dcumpian
Bob,
 
K11 Ultimate comes on a portable hard drive. Once you install the latest Native Access (it works great now, BTW), you'll see all of the uninstalled content on the hard drive, once it is plugged in, as well as already installed content and any outstanding updates. Like Steven suggests, I recommend installing and running Native Access now, before you start installing K11U. Any content in K11U that you already have will only be updated if there is an update. In the "Uninstalled" section, you can choose what to install.
 
Native Access was pretty buggy a couple of years ago, but I have had zero issues with it over the last year.
 
Regards,
Dan

FYI - I purchased K11U last year in a chain of upgrades.  I did NOT get a hard drive.
 
 

I purchased the HD for Komplete 11 and it still insisted on downloading absolutely everything again, so if it makes you feel better, you didn't miss anything. The downloads failed time and time again, usually quite near the end of something that had taken an hour or more to get that far and support was worse than useless. In case I should ever forget this I've re-named the NI folder to NA (Never Again).

Check out this article from NI about the Komplete update process, it may help.
 
How to Download and Install Native Instrument Product Updates
 
 

paulo

BobF

dcumpian
Bob,
 
K11 Ultimate comes on a portable hard drive. Once you install the latest Native Access (it works great now, BTW), you'll see all of the uninstalled content on the hard drive, once it is plugged in, as well as already installed content and any outstanding updates. Like Steven suggests, I recommend installing and running Native Access now, before you start installing K11U. Any content in K11U that you already have will only be updated if there is an update. In the "Uninstalled" section, you can choose what to install.
 
Native Access was pretty buggy a couple of years ago, but I have had zero issues with it over the last year.
 
Regards,
Dan

FYI - I purchased K11U last year in a chain of upgrades.  I did NOT get a hard drive.
 
 

I purchased the HD for Komplete 11 and it still insisted on downloading absolutely everything again, so if it makes you feel better, you didn't miss anything. The downloads failed time and time again, usually quite near the end of something that had taken an hour or more to get that far and support was worse than useless. In case I should ever forget this I've re-named the NI folder to NA (Never Again).

Thanks, yes, that's better
 
My max downlink speed is 4Mb.  I still have 2 instruments that are ~30G each that I haven't downloaded yet.
 
End of the day, I really enjoy K11U.

If you order for NI it's download.
From vendor YMMV, from Time+Space it's HD
 
If you have the HD - the individual installers** are there and you can manually install them.
**at least with K9 haven't gotten my K11 yet to verify but don't see why it would be different ie.  Native Access is still downloading EXEs

paulo

BobF

dcumpian
Bob,
 
K11 Ultimate comes on a portable hard drive. Once you install the latest Native Access (it works great now, BTW), you'll see all of the uninstalled content on the hard drive, once it is plugged in, as well as already installed content and any outstanding updates. Like Steven suggests, I recommend installing and running Native Access now, before you start installing K11U. Any content in K11U that you already have will only be updated if there is an update. In the "Uninstalled" section, you can choose what to install.
 
Native Access was pretty buggy a couple of years ago, but I have had zero issues with it over the last year.
 
Regards,
Dan

FYI - I purchased K11U last year in a chain of upgrades.  I did NOT get a hard drive.
 
 

I purchased the HD for Komplete 11 and it still insisted on downloading absolutely everything again, so if it makes you feel better, you didn't miss anything. The downloads failed time and time again, usually quite near the end of something that had taken an hour or more to get that far and support was worse than useless. In case I should ever forget this I've re-named the NI folder to NA (Never Again).

I got the HDD when NI had their big sale last year. Native Access installed almost everything directly from the HDD except for a handful of plugins where the version on the HDD was older than what was available. I think less than 20GB was downloaded.
 
Regards,
Dan

dcumpian
I got the HDD when NI had their big sale last year. Native Access installed almost everything directly from the HDD except for a handful of plugins where the version on the HDD was older than what was available. I think less than 20GB was downloaded.
 
Regards,
Dan

I got the HD today. Plugged it in. Fired up N.A. and it came up asking for my serial #.
On the installation page each product to be installed had an icon indicating whether the software would
a) be installed from the hard drive
b) installed from the hard drive and be updated from the web
   If you put your mouse over the icon it would give you detail eg 'there is a new version available. product will be installed from hard drive and a 148MB update will be downloaded' (wording as recalled)
c) downloaded and installed
 
Clicked Install All and came back later and it was done.
I found the whole process very intuitive and painless.