Komplete Kontrol 3.0.2 can not drag loops and one-shots into a DAW anymore

Personally, I cannot find anything positive to say on V3 at the current moment. Almost ALL the basic function I like in KK V2 is removed or crippled in V3, even the "resizable GUI" is completely useless when the preset browser is so badly designed and preset names end up truncated.

• Terrible preset browser
• Less overall info on the single display
• Cannot browse presets AND see the plugin at the same time
• Most BASIC operations and options now need many more clicks!!!
• Tag filtering is now very clunky and STILL adds no suggestions from users on improvements
• Cannot edit preset data
• Library BANKS now miss sub bank selection in the browser
• Memory footprint is approx 30% larger now which impacts on larger sets. I have not compared CPU usage lately but that was also decreased in performance in my initial tests making this now more bloated for less benefit.

I mean, if I still had V3 thing installed I could easily sit here and rattle off a dozen more things to dislike, and literally I have not a single thing I look at and think "cool, that is a nice improvement. I do not see ANYTHING personally that has been improved in any way, only things that have been crippled.

On all the music forums in years I have NEVER seen an update to any version of anything attract so many negative discussions and in my 25+ years I have also never felt more let down and disappointed in a company. Harsh to say, but alas that is just how some of us feel and that is a shame because personally, many of the official NI people here on the forums are great people and nothing bad to say personally at all, just the actual vision for KK seems far removed at the moment from what many users were hoping for years ago...

Just adding another voice to this thread.

I upgraded today to KK 3 to find I can’t drag loops or one-shots into Logic.

This was a large part of my workflow, dragging one shots into Logic’s drum machine or loops into sampler.

Also I’ve noticed my Spitfire libraries can no longer be expanded to see articulations and quite a few libraries aren’t tagged correctly by vendor.

I’ve immediately downgraded to 2.9 and everything’s working much better.

Big fan of Komplete and was planning to upgrade this year so I hope this all gets resolved.

It seems that the people designing the software never use it!

First and most importantly, you can drag and drop out of “Content” location of your file explorer. It’s organized with the same tags as the KK browser, so not impossible to line up previews with grabbing the file from file explorer. Second, usage data is not reliable, and NI’s dependence on it is frustrating to say the least. This is imo a boiler plate, “tech bro” approach that is governed by their product lead, who I believe was poached from Meta (a DJ, no less, so probably not very plugged into the Komplete universe). Example - I had to buy a second midi controller to support my KK MK2 board because it had no faders and held less parameters due to the 8 knob limitation. My usage of my KK MK2 board, then, would show way lower use of midi mode. Does this mean I don’t want a more robust midi mode on my MK2? No, it just means NI has fallen so far behind I had to buy a second device to fill the gap. But regardless, NI removed MIDI templates from the MK3 board making it even less useful than it already was. Imo, NI has fallen so far behind companies like Akai and Roland, it will be nearly impossible for them to catch up. Buyer beware of further investments in the platform.

You can download the V2.9 for your system from this page, just ignore the whole "how to keep V2 and V3 especially if you are on mac as not many are able to even get that to work.

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/14394517675677-How-to-Keep-Komplete-Kontrol-2-9-and-Komplete-Kontrol-3-on-Your-System

There is somewhere an unofficial link on the forums somewhere but no idea where they keep it hidden, should just be an option still in Native Access or somewhere easy to find. Could be a while before we see improvements, especially since there are many compatibility issues to sort out and that seems to be the focus for the moment.

But they did make the UI resizable.😃