NI Marketing - get out of my session!

MarkD
MarkD Member Posts: 1 Member
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I'm here writing, instead of scoring a film, because all of a sudden when I open an instance of Komplete Kontrol to adjust an instrument I'm hit with a distracting popup that's trying to sell me a Kontakt 8 upgrade, and it's completely interrupting my flow state. As if the incessant email marketing wasn't enough? Get your marketing dept out of my session!

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  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 965 Guru

    The great majority of Kontakt users (and Komplete users, too) never ever come to the forums, and might never go to the website. Me, I'm awful about reading emails; I figure there's plenty of time to read email after I'm dead.

    So having that option turned on might MIGHT not be "marketing". It could just be a genuine attempt on NI's part to keep you informed.

    Not everything that annoys you is being done to annoy you ON PURPOSE, okay?

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    All right, now that we got that out of the way, you can stop that prompt very easily and get back to scoring your film.

    Okay, here's what you need to do:

    1. Open Kontakt 7 standalone (that means outside of your DAW or any other host)
    2. Dismiss the prompt (and try not to let your blood pressure pop)
    3. Go to File > Options > Interface
    4. Look at the very last option. It says 'Enable "New Products for You" Panel', and it will be checked (bright box). Uncheck it.
    5. Close Kontakt 7 standalone.

    Now get back to scoring, your break time is over and you've been slacking off dismissing all these dialogs! 😏

    Oh, and when you finally decide to upgrade to Kontakt 8, and if you don't want that message to pop up when Kontakt 9 comes out, then you will definitely want to do the above steps all over again. Because the same option is there in K8 and yes, it will be checked.

    It can't hurt you, so stop letting it hurt you. Calm down, take action, then go back to scoring, and have a great day.

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