Anxiousmofo

Same.

The wife gave me the green light to buy the Komplete 12 update for my birthday, so I did.  Kind of a no brainer, since Massive X is being released on my birthday.

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Looks like no more freebies of any kind at Time Space.  Guess I'm slow on the draw.

25 minutes ago, Lawrence Ames said:

Hey guys,

Lawrence from PluginFox here! The trial was taken "out of stock" as we had one person abusing the deal and ordering lots of them with multiple emails.

It's available again now if you want to check it out.

Thank you, Lawrence!

They really need a further "Deluxe" tier between Standard and Suite.  That tier should have all of Standard, adding the instruments and Max for Live, and no packs or samples.  Suite is bloated and stupid expensive. They should either lower the price or give people the option of foregoing all the bloat. Who wants to pay a couple hundred dollars premium for decade old orchestral samples, etc.?

Those are nice prices at Best Service.  First somewhat tempting upgrade price from 9 Standard to 10 I have seen.  Too bad I've already spent my gear allotment for a good while.  This time of year has too many good deals.

1 hour ago, Glyn Barnes said:

A  factor is probably most NKIs use different samples which probably makes the use of snapshots more difficult. Never the less separating pads, arps, leads, basses etc into separate folders would have helped.

Yeah, thinking on it further, I have a number of Impact Soundworks libs that are similarly structured.

32 minutes ago, Glyn Barnes said:

The main downside is presets are presented as individual NKI files, 630 of them rather than snapshots making browsing a chore and mapping parameters to Komplet Kontrol in-practical.  I think in time I will split the sounds into different folders to make it easier to find sounds.

 

Wow.  That's mighty stupid and annoying.  Good to know.

Bummer on the Dronar deal going away.  Guess I shouldn't have waited for them to fix the loyalty points.  Much less tempted to jump on this now.  Guess I'll wait and hope that better add-ons pop up somewhere.

24 minutes ago, Zo said:

Can we use NI vauchers ?

No.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/e-voucher-terms-and-conditions-2018/?_ga=2.164298559.1091085622.1559330054-285750822.1559330054

20 minutes ago, Monomox said:

Day 1 of a LONG month: I think I'm going to pass.  I may jump in during BF if it turns out that Kontakt 6 becomes necessary and Massive X is the s**t

⏰ tick...

FWIW, I don't believe they have sales on Komplete updates or upgrades (from Komplete) on BF; only on single products.

Weird. Loyalty points work in GBP but not USD.  Even with my points added for GBP, it is cheaper for me in USD.  I sent them an inquiry.

My loyalty points were locked out, too.

Nice to see VST3 support.  Now they just need to offer me an actually attractive upgrade sale price from 9 Standard.

Hmmmm. The Time Space deal also includes a free Dronar.  Around 102 shipped to the U.S.  Hmmmm.

Wonder if any U.S. retailers will have it further discounted.  I recall JRR doesn't do codes on NI.

So tempted to update my K9, especially with Massive X on the horizon.  I think the pending release of the Source Audio C4 has a present lock on my funds, though.

I'm a huge Cyan nerd who pre-ordered this game on Kickstarter, but it is a great game and I hope y'all pick it up for free!

On 5/22/2019 at 4:45 AM, Zargg said:

Hi. Perhaps check this tool out to remove nonfunctional NI software?

It makes it possible to reinstall products afterward.

I had to do that with Reaktor 6 (Player version).

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002853669-Solving-problems-regarding-updating-uninstall-reinstall-NI-products-Windows-en-us-

All the best.

Sorry to hijack the thread again, but wanted to say thanks. Kontakt 5 eventually started misbehaving in all my DAWs.  I used the uninstall tool and reinstalled and now it works like a charm. I hadn't known about the tool before your post, so thanks very much for getting me sorted! 

I just checked and my Kontakt 5 (latest) is doing this in CbB since the last update, as well. As previously mentioned, I get the same behavior in Cubase Elements. 

Odd. The exact same thing happened to me in Cubase Elements demo, but with Kontakt 5 full. 6 Player works fine.  

My K5 was working fine in the last version of CbB, as well as Ableton and some other hosts, but not Elements.  I have not yet fired up the latest CbB update since I installed, but will do so and report back.

4 hours ago, Zargg said:

Hi. Perhaps check this tool out to remove nonfunctional NI software?

It makes it possible to reinstall products afterward.

I had to do that with Reaktor 6 (Player version).

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002853669-Solving-problems-regarding-updating-uninstall-reinstall-NI-products-Windows-en-us-

All the best.

Thanks for the tip.  Not a bad one, but I am disinclined to do that because my K5 works fine in CbB, Ableton, Reaper, etc..  Cubase Elements is the only outlier with the database anomaly.

I'm only demoing Elements (to get a sense of the Cubase ecosystem) and at this point have not been seduced into buying the crossgrade, so maybe a non-issue.

6 hours ago, ZincT said:

Strange that anxiousmofo.  You could try running Native Access to make sure both Kontakts are correctly installed. 

Also, I found this forum post about someone with similar problems. Maybe it will help? 

https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/kontakt-6-not-appearing-in-cubase.341421/

Failing that you could try either NI or Steinberg support or their forums. 

Thanks all. I check Native Access a couple times a week and stay current. I'm nerdy like that. 

I'll ask Steinberg. Was just curious if anyone else had experienced the issue. I appreciate the suggestions!

9 hours ago, ZincT said:

More experienced Cubasers may have more to say on this but I had a quick look at the score editing in Cubase Pro last night and it didn't seem particularly complicated. I was able to do some basic editing without referring to the manual and it seemed pretty self explanatory (probably more so than CbB). There may be more complexity "under the hood" which is not evident from the quick play I had last night.

Full Kontakt 5 is working fine here. I haven't installed 6 yet.

My initial experiences of Cubase Pro 10 are pretty good and it seems very logically laid out. It took a while to get it to run at first as it got stuck on the VST3 scan 2 or 3 times. After that it started up fine. The VST2 scan also blacklisted TH-U and Analog Lab 4 which I need to investigate further. I always try to install only 64 bit VSTs but some insist on copying 32 bit ones as well so it may be some rogue 32 bit VSTs that are causing the problem.

It automatically picked up my Steinberg Audio Interface and set up a few project templates for the interface which was nice. It also installed a low latency driver without asking me but still allowed me to use the normal Yamaha Steinberg ASIO one for my interface. I might try the other one out and see if it offers any improvements but somehow I doubt it.

I concur with Matthew's account of the Window management. What is that menu bar doing at the top of the screen when the Hub is open and why is it left open when you close the program (you have to close it separately)? Then again Cubase Elements behaved the same way so I guess that should have warned me what to expect. I also had a transport bar left open after returning to the hub at one point.

The main working window is nicely configurable though and I will probably work with the transport in the toolbar at the top most of the time. "Rewind" was another missing function that had me perplexed until I found that the transport and most other tools can be stretched to reveal other functions e.g. rewind, fast forward, goto start, goto end etc.  

I am working my way through a few tutorials at the moment but will plan to do my next project using Cubase. 

I did lose a couple of hours last night when I started playing with Retrologue 2 and Padshop Pro which are both excellent and I can see me using a lot.

Thank you.  I'm quite stumped as to what the problem is with my K5.  At any rate, troubleshooting basic functionality of a bread and butter plugin is not a Cubase-confidence-inspiring experience.

I'm demoing Elements, although my fuzz pedal spending/addiction has pretty much negated any available funds.  Nevertheless, is anyone else having problems with the Kontakt 5 (full) GUI in Cubase?  All my menus and directories in Kontakt 5 are zeroed out and non-navigable when I open it in  Elements.  Kontakt Player 6 is fine, however.

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