So does anyone want to sell me their old version of Kontakt? It would be going to a good home :)

You know there are people who upgraded to Komplete when there have been sales and they must have singles like Kontakt. What are they saving them for? Sell them you strange people.

Or wait til EWQL M.O.R. goes on sale (currently $400, ouch!).

I'd be willing to sell my version of Kontakt 4? I have the full version with box and DVD's. What are are you looking to spend for it?

I see a lot of new things coming out that work much better w/Kontakt 5. Time-stretching improved greatly, new effects. You get what you pay for. Upgrade paths, too.

You can upgrade, bit. It's treated like you bought it. No restrictions.

Yes, I believe you are right about that. 

I see a lot of new things coming out that work much better w/Kontakt 5. Time-stretching improved greatly, new effects.

You've seen this yourself, or read it in some NI propaganda helpful FAQ? Seriously, I'd love for someone -anyone- to give me an example of what K5 did for them that K4 couldn't do (besides qualify them to buy new NI libraries). 

wanna sell your Kontakt 4 bit?

Sorry, I'm one of the luddites who refused to upgrade to K5, so K4 is what I use.

Well here is the propoganda, sorry helpful FAQ
http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-5/?page=2523

I don't think its a valueless upgrade, but its of little value and potentially problematic to me.

For me there are a few annoying things about Kontakt 5. The first is only Windows 7 is supported. It understandable that XP support is being dropped but I would have hoped for a bit more time before dropping Vista. Having said that it does seem to work OK on Vista and XP for most people, and I have the Kontakt 5 player working fine. However I am very reluctant to buy software that is officially not supported on my OS. I am reluctant to upgrade to W7 until replace my DAW.
 
I can understand why new instruments, like Studio Drummer  and George Duke are K5 only. They use the new features, like the MIDI file support for grooves and the Time machine, but why can't you buy K4 versions of the older libraries that worked fine in K4. Yes I know they will work in the K5 player, but see my comments above about Windows 7.
 
Time machine pro does look like a impressive new feature, The demos's of "George Duke Soul Treasures" show it off, BUT it's one I am unlikely to need, loop based libraries don't really appeal to me.
 
Extra effects? OK , but most of the time I use VST effects in Sonar. There is new 16 channel bus system, fine if you want to use only Kontakt's built in effects.
 
I am staying on version 4 for some time yet.

If I use any of Kontakt's effects (other than filters), it's just for convenience. There isn't anything in there that I don't have better replacements for. And like you, I don't use loops, so time stretching means nothing to me. Plus, for the first time ever, this Kontakt update added no enhancements at all to the bundled library. They might as well have just sent me an email saying "it's time for you to send us some more money".

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If I use any of Kontakt's effects (other than filters), it's just for convenience. There isn't anything in there that I don't have better replacements for. And like you, I don't use loops, so time stretching means nothing to me. Plus, for the first time ever, this Kontakt update added no enhancements at all to the bundled library. They might as well have just sent me an email saying "it's time for you to send us some more money".

 
I agree completely.  if they had updated the library and added some more sounds I might have gone for the update.  but it just wasn't worth it to me.