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@Peter - IK Multimedia Thanks Peter but I'm getting Not Found on that link - looking forward to hearing the song though ?

Yes I also spotted that one Mark - great price!

Thanks @chris.r - it looks like they have a new installer but I think I will leave it for now as I am still recovering bits and bobs.

Indeed! Ironically it even deleted the Voltage Modular plugins ? I updated from within the plugin. I can't understand how this bug got out. I even like how their VM stuff auto updates (must remember to turn that feature off). Incidentally all VST3s were left alone (as they are in a different folder). It's also the first time I was happy about forgetting to reset the default Waves plugins folder as they were all left untouched

There is an update available in DCO-106 this morning (1.0.13 to 1.0.17) BUT... It offers to update within the UI - FOR NOW DO NOT DO IT!!! What it did for me was to update DCO-106 AND DELETE all the other VST2s (and subfolders) in my VST64 folder. I have been slowly installing things on my new system since around late July / early August so this is a bit of a nasty bug for me! The same thing happened to others over on the KVR forum so it's not just my setup. You have been warned. Fortunately, I have a backup from about a week ago but also found that the excellent and free version of Recuva seems to have found and recovered a lot of the files (not the subfolders). Just remember not to write anything before running Recuva to the drive if this warning is too late for you (portable version is best as you can run it from a usb drive).

Thanks Simon - also showing updates for AD2 here.

All ok here with VD-Phat 2.1 (I did the install with Revo Uninstaller just in case).

Seems okay here Reid. I tried a few searches and also using the browser which was fine. I wonder where they are hosted as I am in the UK. Also I notice it says that it is a beta website which might affect performance.

I have also checked and my login credentials for KontaktHub work fine at LootAudio. They also have all of my KH purchase history and credits earned.

I'm not totally konvinced yet either Aidan. Maybe it's more for people with the S series NI keyboards. I only just got Alicia's Keys (with the K12U upgrade) which became my favourite piano but Noire has now superseded it. I really like where NI seem to be taking things lately.

@aidan o driscoll here's an example of the view of Noire within Komplete Kontrol. Notice all of the tabbed controls along the top and easier to access than in Kontakt.

Just re-opened KK and it looked like it was doing a full scan again ... but finished in about 10 seconds so it wasn't. Yes just tried again and it's around 10 seconds for the normal start-up and most of that seems to be spent on Roland plugins. Don't know what it is about them but all of my DAWs do a lengthy pause when they try to scan the Roland plugins. It seems to be scanning those every time which suggests there's something about them that it doesn't like.

I thought you might ask that! From my recollection there were library specific panels that you could access to control various aspects of the plugin that were not as easily accessible from the standard Kontakt interface. He showed this to me on a Zoom meeting and it's on my to-do list to investigate further KK is just doing it's first scan ... I'll come back and re-open it when it's finished.

Don't have it installed yet on the new system but on the old one it only did the big scan on first opening. I will give it a go on the new system and see what happens. TBH I couldn't really see the point of it until another forum member here showed me some of the benefits when using it with Kontakt.

OK glad you found it. I have been making room on my system for all the new stuff! Pharlight, Straylight, Cloud Supply, lofi glow and other Play series are all excellent and not that big, but Mysteria and Thrill are getting on for 30Gb each. Then there's Noire (15Gb but amazing), Stradivari violin (over 20Gb). Then again I really did the upgrade to get specific things for not a lot of money and don't expect to install everything.

Only K13U I think Aidan. There's a page on NI website which compares versions. I will post it later when I am back home (typing this on my phone).

I have just upgraded from K12 to K13U so I have tons of new stuff to check out, GR6 being one of them. So I haven't had as long as I would have liked to give it a thorough test. In the other thread I said that the new amp models are excellent and I also thought the old ones sounded better. That's probably due to what Magic Russ says above (always in HQ mode, better matched cabs etc.). It would be good if they re-did some of the old models using the new modeling technique and they seem to be open to the idea of adding new stuff as their webpage says... Looking at the input filter section it's clearly not just aimed at guitar but as a general FX processor and it seems like a useful update over the old version in that respect. There are a lot of good presets including artist ones with a promise of more to come in future. I was getting some really interesting sounds with the Flair Arpeggiator preset. There are a bunch of modifiers such as LFO which you can assign to almost anything for example a LFO assigned to the tone control of an amp. The new Softube effects are a welcome addition as are the new matched amp cabs which use IRs from Ownhammer and 3 Sigma Audio. There's also a demo version --> hhttps://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/guitar-rig-6-pro/downloads/ ...and the manual can also be downloaded from that link.

Same for me.

Thanks Steven, Appreciate the gesture. Will have a play with them later. For anyone with Unify you can get the Unified Pendulate factory library from the comments section of the video below. As well as the factory patches it also includes some bonus patches some of which feature the polybox trick to make Pendulate polyphonic.

Very good points and why I think I am also going to wait and see what's on offer around Black Friday or Christmas.

It depends on your upgrade path Aidan. NI make a very clear distinction between Updates and Upgrades. You can check which products you have that are eligible for transfer in your account (License Transfer tab), but be careful! My upgrade path was from Kontakt to Komplete 11 Upgrade, then I did a K12 Update (to get to v12) and now I have finally done a K12U Upgrade (which got upgraded to K13U). Updates take you to a new version number but at the same tier (e.g. K11 to K12) whereas Upgrades take you from one tier to another (e.g. K12 to K12U). It's also worth reading carefully the product description of what you buy e.g. my K12U box says "Komplete 12 Ultimate UPG K8-12" so the Upgrade works on Komplete versions 8 to 12 which means that it also Upgrades my Komplete 11 Upgrade. That means that the K12 Update is now superfluous and can be transferred as there is still a valid Upgrade path from Kontakt through to Komplete 13 Ultimate. YMMV as it depends on what you may have bought along the way and your upgrade path. The K12 Update is still of use and therefore sellable to anyone who own K2 to K11 as it will bring their version up to what was included in V12.

I only went for the K13U upgrade from K12 because of the insane price at Scan/G4M and I realised that I could resell one of the Komplete updates plus all of the guitar libraries that I had purchased separately which now come with K13U and almost recoup the cost of the upgrade. I only have Electric Sunburst left to sell (now sold) so this has got to be one of the best ever deals for me for the amount of extra content vs the cost.

I thought the same when I got the K12 boxed update last year but the hard drive was quite small. Even the K12U boxed hard drive was only 500Gb or so. I just decided to leave them in their boxes for later resale.

@simon there's a GR6 Pro demo available now here ... https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/guitar-rig-6-pro/

@aidan o driscoll That's great, you had less time to wait than I did! Let the partying commence ? .. or at least the downloading ? You don't need to uninstall anything, it will just add a series of products in NA that can be installed. I tend to keep old things like GR5 and Kontakt 5 as some old projects still use them.