Browser Speed Komplete Kontrol 2 vs 3

Yeah, it's much slower especially if you hold the up/down arrows to scroll. This (among other reasons) is why many of us feel V3 is a downgrade in function from V2 as it has not really improved the browsing experience at all, more hindered the one thing it use to do pretty well.

Hope for improvements is all we can do, just past hope has landed us here already.

Wow… really, is Kontakt 8 dead to all users of KK 2.9.6 then?

The only reason to go to KK3 is if you were unfortunate enough to have purchased one of their MK3 Controllers… or if for some reason KK 2.9.6 doesn't work on the latest macOS and you took that upgrade.

Otherwise, it's a massive downgrade. Way slower. Blurry product thumbnails that are bad ergonomics. No Drag-and-Drop from Browser. Less stability. Space-wasting UI. Etc.

The fact that it doesn't work with K8 doesn't matter to me. NI will never see another dime of my money after everything I've been through with their products.

Windows

In KK V2 I would often use the keyboard browser wheel to scroll presets when in a DAW project BUT I would be looking at the computer screen and watching the plugin load and viewing the preset list instead of cranking my neck down to the keyboard and pulling out the keyboard draw all the way.

NI ruined this aspect too by making it now that the keyboard opens the preset browser ONLY on the keyboard display and not affecting the on-screen browser. There was some attempt to explain this as a new feature people had asked for, but I never recall anyone asking for it and here's a crazy idea, how about giving users the OPTION to select how they want this to happen. The real reason I feel is because now the preset browser is no longer a mainstay on the left side, accessible at all times and useful, it's another limitation they have created so they just done away with another useful feature.

There are many aspects that I feel have impacted the effectiveness of the browsing from (as mentioned above) more clicks to even get to it, not being able to have browser AND plugin viewable, more truncation of long preset names than before, larger gaps in the list between presets resulting in actually LESS info on screen, slower browser performance and the loss of things like I mentioned, being able to control the on-screen browser from the keyboard, loss of DnD of samples…. I mean, if all that doesn't sound like a downgrade then I can't paint a clearer picture.