Skijumptoes

That's what it used to do, but there's definitely instances that no installs and reads the content as it goes.. Especially for updates. I say this, as i've seen 20gb updates that only download about 2-3gb so it's injecting that data into the pre-existing install somehow. Yet the progress bar will stall as it does the local checks. In the past i'd be careful about updating as it could kill my connection, but nowadays i'll do the largest items as I know it's not actually downloading anywhere near the data it looks like it is.

Sometimes Native Access is installing as it downloads I think, as i've seen that too but I think what's happening is some kind of local unpacking/checking of content files, I see it on updates especially more though. Oddly enough though, last year I had to re-download all of Komplete Ultimate and my home connection is about 20mb so used a 4G router that gets me about 40mb and doesn't kill my main line... I was getting stalls as you've described, and it turned out to be the firmware in my router which fixed it thanks to a random forum post that I found with someone else having the issue. Was only Native Access that seemed to cause it though, so perhaps the internal downloader does something a bit different?!

I don't think you're able to go from K13U to K15 Standard as it's a downgrade - you must have something else which is allowing that upgrade path, perhaps one of the Select versions that comes with hardware or something? It will show you when you go to add to basket what the upgrade is from.

That is so weird, as I was going through them and looked for Paramore and there was nothing there, can't believe I come on here and read this 30 minutes later! But as I got curious, I found this site where you can download all artists in one download: https://gtptabs.com/tabs/16/paramore.html The individual files don't have the artist name as part of the file, but luckily MacOS lets you append text to a selection of files so just done that and all good!

I really like them personally, ignoring the subjectiveness of sound. For me, from a creative perspective, it feels much more of a one-to-one relationship having specific setups within their own plugins and therefore simulates a more traditional setup. Because of the limited options within each plugin, I find myself more precisely using them than I would a plugin that has a ton of pedals and amp/cab combinations where I find myself scanning across various setups and suffer with choice paralysis. I think staying within that amp environment also gets your ears more trained to the sounds and finer adjustments as you can hear the nuances better. It's very subjective though, I think they sound great and play really nice. Not played with Woodrow too much yet. The only other guitar plugins I have are all suites like Amplitube, Guitar Rig & Helix. So i'd likely have a different perspective to someone who's used more standalone options like this.

At least you haven't got to download everything and store it on an external as they refuse you access after a year now. So some progress being made, although how that was ever a thing to start with is crazy.

You didn't buy the pro version instead of max did you?

There was a free 'play' version of Mallets that had 50 presets, but notice it's been removed since V Collection 11 released.

Oh, you want a functional site, eh? Must admit, I noticed that after posting on here haha.

Can't lie, loving the Pokemon card style presentation of the new products on their website! https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/v-collection/overview

I could never understand that, I had Spark with the hardware controller and used to think it was brilliant. Odd move why they removed it, must've been an issue with some underlying licensing or coding perhaps?

Like NI, they normally package in the products that have been released since the previous collection, so would be products like Augmented Yangtze, MiniBrute, and SynthX, and probably full version of Augmented Mallets. JP8000 is the main rumour. So that's likely to be the bulk of the additions, then soundpacks, and i'm sure at least one existing instrument will see a paid update.

$26.10 if using the code "SPRING10".

Anyone know why UA title this as a 'collection', but is just a single plugin?

You get three per license (was two), and you can split, or auth/de-auth them however you like between dongle and local/machine.