Kontakt backwards compatibility

[EvilDragon]

As I'm doing Kontakt scritping for living, I have Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 5 both installed, but absolutely NOBODY is asking me to develop for K3 anymore. Draw your own conclusions from that.

What about stability and resources consuming? Is K5 better than K4?

Virtually identical, unless you're using Time Machine Pro (uses more RAM and CPU), also some of new filters have switchable oversampling which consumes more CPU as well.


Stability? Pretty much the same over here. However I can crash Kontakt in unimaginable ways nobody should be aware of (and casual users usually aren't like that, so you're good)

[SWAN808]

I think if you are planning on purchasing 5,
and you ask them nicely, explain your concerns etc. they should be able to hand you the older versions.

I don't know if this actually works, but you could try searching for Kontakt 3 & 4 demos from other (legal) sources on the internet, and activate these with your K5 serial. Since all Kontakt versions can run side by side on the same machine.

I just spoke to NI and they would not include any previous version of Kontakt with K5...they werent very supportive about the idea of making presets for previous versions but said if I had to do it - I could buy second hand versions of Kontakt...

I suppose the best way is to buy K4 and upgrade.

[mfb]

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I just spoke to NI and they would not include any previous version of Kontakt with K5...they werent very supportive about the idea of making presets for previous versions but said if I had to do it - I could buy second hand versions of Kontakt...

I also asked NI about getting an older version for the same reasons, and was told
the same thing.