The Kontakt upgrade mill is the biggest scam going. You can't buy old versions, so every new library developer who jumps in does so at the current version, and any products he creates can only run on the version he used to create them. It doesn't mean he actually needed any of the features introduced at the current version. Most Kontakt libraries available today would have been happy running under Kontakt 2, had they been created with that version.
 
NI helps to enforce obsolescence by making sure their own products are not backward-compatible, even libraries meant for earlier versions. They've gone as far as releasing fixes to their own libraries - individual wave files! - that were incompatible with the previous version of Kontakt. Even Microsoft isn't that arrogant. 
 
For myself, I am a foot-dragger when it comes to updating software. I just gave up SONAR 8.5 this month. I stayed on XP until I got a library that was too big for it. Although I had jumped on K3 right away (for the choirs) I stayed on that version until a must-have library came along that required K4. I stayed on K4 until a must-have library came along that required K5. I will do the same when K6 comes along.
 
In 1992 I traveled to a place called Baguio City in the mountains of the Philippines. They had just experienced a massive earthquake. The city and the roads leading to it were still in ruins. A new high-rise Sheraton hotel had pancaked, World Trade Center style, killing hundreds. Landslides had destroyed a large new housing development, luckily still under construction and uninhabited. Needless to say, I was just a little nervous. So I found the oldest, most threadbare hotel in town and that's where I stayed. It didn't have A/C or reliable hot water and no Starbucks in the lobby. But it had seen a century's worth of earthquakes and was still standing.

emeraldsoul
 
But didn't they say there was new factory library content? Isn't there a new bouzouki-gamelan hybrid or something?
:)
 
thanks,
-Tom

Yes, there were updates to both Factory Selection and one of the others...can't remember which...

I am downloading the updates now using Service Center. I have not used Komplete lately and there are 16 updates besides drivers and other stuff at the bottom.
I'm going to try and be sure my paths are correct and I'll try to install one thing at a time. Do you think it matters what order I install updates. and is using SC for this what you did? It has worked fine in the past. Fingers crossed.
I've been reading the carping upstairs about the latest Platinum update and was starting to think I should wait... then I checked, I've been using it for several weeks with no problems (well no more problems than the usual "I don't know what I'm doing problems").
Hopefully this will all go well, it should.
I'm going to check everything else for updates tomorrow. I just updated EZD2 with the new TT updater, it works well, I like it!
 
I'll read through this thread again. Thanks. Julien

I used Service Center, downloaded everything at one time, installed one at a time. Everything seems just fine so far but I have not yet checked to see if Kontact can find itself, lol. I'm sure it will be fine. Of course I had to delete my DAW and reinstall it on the XLN site so it would authorize AD2 again, they need to fix this.
Thanks for the heads up!
JB

Just one in support of the new keyboard colouring over on the NI forum.
 
But he dose not say why.

Cant see anyupgrades to the library    - is this a separate download or is it  a part of the K5 update?

Elffin
Cant see anyupgrades to the library    - is this a separate download or is it  a part of the K5 update?

Are you using the Service Center or the newer Native Access system?
Service Center only showed one update,
Native Access showed 3.

Looks like a few other things have changed. I was just using Vintage Organs and the keyswitches don't show up on the virtual keyboard. They just have the "out of range" black colouring. I will investigate tomorrow.

Glyn Barnes
Looks like a few other things have changed. I was just using Vintage Organs and the keyswitches don't show up on the virtual keyboard. They just have the "out of range" black colouring. I will investigate tomorrow.

That's what all the above posts are about Glyn,

They have taken the Key Colors away and placed "Small blurbs" in color above the keys...

None of us are too happy about it...

Glyn Barnes

cclarry
I'd rather do a "little bit" here and there, then a WHOLE LOT later...

That's just my philosophy....YMMV

I tend to agree with that,  it's also a habit picked up from my day job (before I retired). A lot of software we used was only supported on the current version so keeping up to date was important.

The curse of the "current version." 
 
Anybody remember Word Pervert? Word Perfect, I mean. Well, the devs sat on version v5.51 (if memory serves), and never changed it, in spite of massive changes to the app. When someone would email a file to me that I had trouble with, I had to find out which version of v5.51 they were on. The devs used the date of the main .EXE as the "version" identifier. Each update had a number of pages of adds/subtracts/fixes/"can't fix it; call it a feature" in 4-6 point type. I had to keep copies of each of the release notes in text files (ha, Word Pervert, couldn't fool me there!) to try to figure incompatibilities out.
 
Thanks, Motorola, for forcing that corporate standard on us.