Upgrade from Kontakt 6 to Kontakt 7

LawTunes

Any word on when the upgrade from Windows Kontakt 6 to Kontakt 7 will be available and the upgrade price? ('m a long-time NI/Kontakt/authorized libraries customer, and so far all I see are very pricey bundles which include Kontakt 7 -- and solely upgrading to Kontakt 7 is all I want and can afford. Thanks.

Kaiwan_NI

Hey @LawTunes the price will be available in October when Kontakt 7 drops officially. Please keep an eye on this page here: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-7/ 🙂

abnegative

Will Kontakt 7 player be free?

Monochrome

Kontakt Player has always been free.

B.Minor

Can the new KONTAKT 7 PLAYER (now offered to be downloaded via Native Access) co-exist on the same Windows PC as any existing KONTAKT 6 FULL installation, at least as long as the full version of KONTAKT 7 is not available? Will my KONTAKT 6 installation even be overwritten/deleted? THX.

manuel alexandre

I have free kontakt Player 6 installed. Now I have installed free Kontakt player 7 but 6 version still is there. If I uninstal kontakt Player 6 version do I loose my work recorded on cubase with this version?

If not, it´s simply unsinstall version 6 with Control Panel (windows)?

thanks

Blindeddie

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/33512#Comment_33512

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/33859#Comment_33859

@B.Minor it co-exists just fine...each new Major version (6 to 7 for example) is its own application/plugin, nothing overwritten/deleted.

@manuel alexandre Best way to tell, before deleting V6 is to open a project and check the version of Kontakt that is loaded in your project...if it is still 6 then do not delete.

B.Minor

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/33863#Comment_33863

@Blindeddie: Thanks for your information.

LawTunes

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/32769#Comment_32769

Thank you for your assistance. Once I saw that Kontakt 7 was available I bought the upgrade. And after installing it and its new libraries/components, I tried to run it and got the black screen. Poking around on the website, although unannounced, I see from others experiencing this issue that Kontakt 7 requires not just Direct3D DDI 11.1 which my system has, but also Feature Level 11, which it does not and my card cannot be so upgraded via drivers. I was not aware of that requirement prior to purchase, having been successfully running Kontakt 6 through all of its interim upgrades/versions. Extremely disappointing and frustrating. So that I can get at least some benefit from my purchase, can you please tell me if my Kontakt 6 can at least run all the libraries/components that came with Kontakt 7? And if some yes, some no, can you please so identify? Thank you.

Jeremy_NI

@LawTunes Unfortunately products made with Kontakt 7 will not load in Kontakt 6. Given the circumstances we could offer a refund or some kind of compensation. Let me know if that would suit you, I'll contact you by email in this case.

LawTunes

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/37392#Comment_37392

Thank you for your consideration. Although I was very excited about and looking forward to all that Kontakt 7 had to offer this long-time user, the inability of my present system to run it regrettably forces me to accept your offer of a refund. Please let me know what I need to do to accomplish that, and also the best way to remove 7 and it’s components from my system without messing up my existing installation of, and my many projects that used/use, 6x. Thank you again.

Jeremy_NI

@LawTunes I contacted you by email.

RIP_Ganon

I purchased the Kontakt 7 bundle upgrade, & it's only operating in standalone mode. I want to operate it in my DAW Ableton Live 11. What have I done wrong?

Jeremy_NI

Hey @RIP_Ganon Kontakt 7 is VST3 only. Make sure to enable VST3 plugins in Ableton.