This has been my method with NI as well. With Cubase I stay current. With other vendors it's just hit&miss with how I upgrade. I've given up on IK and the stupid buying credits bullshit.ksandvik wrote:I've purchased the 50% discount upgrades before next Komplete is released for four years now and it works out really well.
The NI komplete 9 speculation thread (it's been announced)
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- KVRAF
- 6097 posts since 5 Jul, 2001 from Just about .... there
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- KVRAF
- 14140 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
I guess there's no answer. Probably buys in bulk. Like WalMart.
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- KVRAF
- 12090 posts since 2 Dec, 2004 from North Wales
I miss Komplete Care.... That was a yearly subscription for all updates as they came out....
if you want value, a Komplete upgrade every two years works well.....
if you want value, a Komplete upgrade every two years works well.....
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- KVRAF
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- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
No reason to be sorry, I just don't understand.osiris wrote:I guess there's no answer. Probably buys in bulk. Like WalMart.
(Sorry I blew up your thread hibs...)
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- KVRAF
- 13126 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
^^This.ksandvik wrote:I've purchased the 50% discount upgrades before next Komplete is released for four years now and it works out really well.
I always stay at least one year behind with Komplete. I'm still at Komplete 7 (I don't have the cash to spend on K8U at the moment)... I may upgrade to Komplete 9 Ultimate next year when they do their 50% off sale but I would never upgrade Komplete when the new version is released.
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- KVRAF
- 4090 posts since 27 Aug, 2004
I have been on the every other year plan. I get to July and can't seem to decide whether to get on the 50% sale or wait to get the new version.ksandvik wrote:I've purchased the 50% discount upgrades before next Komplete is released for four years now and it works out really well.
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Vocalpoint Studios Vocalpoint Studios https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=3112 - KVRian
- 894 posts since 20 Jun, 2002
This is my plan as well - I always wait until the last days of July - but I skip a year and have stayed with the "even" Komplete's only (2,4,6 and nowksandvik wrote:I've purchased the 50% discount upgrades before next Komplete is released for four years now and it works out really well.
.For the 110.00 bucks I just paid for v8 - I can't recall seeing a better deal on anything as long as I have been using VSTi's. All the stuff in there will easily keep me busy until v10 is 50% off in a few years...
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- KVRAF
- 6272 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
I don't.SLiC wrote:I miss Komplete Care.... That was a yearly subscription for all updates as they came out....
Perhaps you don't remember the complete clusterf*k that turned into when the Komplete Care subscribers got all the upgrades, except for the new Guitar Rig which was deemed only to be part of Komplete 3.
Had we all just purchased the Komplete 3 upgrade when it came out, we would have been much better off. Instead, we had to sit on the sidelines for a year until Komplete 4 came along. Fortunately, IIRC, NI came to their senses and offered Komplete Care customers a nice upgrade deal to K4, but boy, the forums were lit up like Xmas trees there for awhile.
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Echoes in the Attic Echoes in the Attic https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=180417
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- 12029 posts since 12 May, 2008
I remember that. Didn't we get Massive for free or something because of that whole mess?BERFAB wrote:I don't.SLiC wrote:I miss Komplete Care.... That was a yearly subscription for all updates as they came out....
Perhaps you don't remember the complete clusterf*k that turned into when the Komplete Care subscribers got all the upgrades, except for the new Guitar Rig which was deemed only to be part of Komplete 3.
Had we all just purchased the Komplete 3 upgrade when it came out, we would have been much better off. Instead, we had to sit on the sidelines for a year until Komplete 4 came along. Fortunately, IIRC, NI came to their senses and offered Komplete Care customers a nice upgrade deal to K4, but boy, the forums were lit up like Xmas trees there for awhile.
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- KVRian
- 589 posts since 16 Jun, 2003
I believe so.Echoes in the Attic wrote:I remember that. Didn't we get Massive for free or something because of that whole mess?
I bought the original Komplete deal, which turned up in a huge box with every product in its own original box with a sticker on which read something like "bundle deal". I think I've bought Komplete 2, then possibly Komplete Care, Komplete 4, and then most recently Komplete 7. You can almost certainly afford to skip a release or two, and as already pointed out, wait until June/July when traditionally NI have discounted the current release in advance of the next version.
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- KVRAF
- 20736 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
Sweet! It's so goofy to use Guitar Rig to host a compressor.hibidy wrote:AH HA! If you look at those new fx, then it says KOMPLETE FX so something may be happening after all.
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- addled muppet weed
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- KVRAF
- 2083 posts since 28 Feb, 2011
Hah! On page 2 of this very thread (June 15), I said:
"Guitar Rig will be renamed something like Studio Rack, and the number of effects will be reduced while upgrading the audio quality and capabilities. New multitrack glitch component with midi learn, arpeggiator and sequencer. A horizontal mixer view will show all the levels (ins and outs) simultaneously and allow drag and drop reordering of components. A super metering bridge component will be added that will display freq curves, waveforms, spatial arrays, etc., and which can be dropped at any location in the chain."
Of course, it's likely mostly wrong
but at least I get credit for saying how stupid the "guitar rig" name of that software is getting ... looks like they actually heard the users (like us) saying they wished the higher-quality effects they recently added in there were native vsts...
On the other hand, most of those older effects in there can just disappear imo ... and I think they will.
"Guitar Rig will be renamed something like Studio Rack, and the number of effects will be reduced while upgrading the audio quality and capabilities. New multitrack glitch component with midi learn, arpeggiator and sequencer. A horizontal mixer view will show all the levels (ins and outs) simultaneously and allow drag and drop reordering of components. A super metering bridge component will be added that will display freq curves, waveforms, spatial arrays, etc., and which can be dropped at any location in the chain."
Of course, it's likely mostly wrong
but at least I get credit for saying how stupid the "guitar rig" name of that software is getting ... looks like they actually heard the users (like us) saying they wished the higher-quality effects they recently added in there were native vsts...On the other hand, most of those older effects in there can just disappear imo ... and I think they will.