Komplete 14 to 15 - grace period

My upgrade price from 14 collection to 15 collection was $499 … make sure you login in order to see your qualified upgrade price (assuming you have registered all your NI products/software).

It would have been nice if NI provided a “What’s new” with a more exactly detail listing of 14 Collection vs. 15 Collection … I suspect NI remain vague on purpose which is disappointing.

My biggest fear when released, is I’ll have to do another S88 firmware update which is a NIGHTMARE and no indication at all that NI are going to address their issues with firmware updates … gone thru a long email chain regarding the problem but I fear they don’t care because a “work around” exists even if a very poor one. I was going to skip the NI collection upgrade since I have NOT received any acknowledgement they are going to fix their firmware update problem. When 15 Collection is released and if the firmware update process is still a mess, I’m going to request a refund. I don’t mind paying NI for work performed, but when the work is NOT performed, that’s a problem.

Sure, maybe NI is more "careful" to avoid such a situation. Generally, no harm if one waits 3/4 year for Summer Sale. I even started to skip every second version, so I update only once a four years… No need to have instantly every plugin on the earth….

I am not sure, if I will upgrade to K15U CE, I have 3/4 year to decide, anyway. Recently I have K13U CE and K14U. So, I might Upgrate K14U to K15U CE and sell K13U CE (I never buy Updates, instead I sell the outdated KU CE…). Or maybe I will just buy Upgrade to K15U, if I have appropriate Base Product to upgrade from.

strangly I upgraded to Ultimate Collectors edition this year. Can’t remember when purchased. When I look at my account I now see NI Collectors Edition 15 update. I purchased mine on the 30 June 2024. But I don’t see a date when the update was added to my account. Now is the update the same as an upgrade? It may answer a question that I came across most recently when I was looking for my installed products and they were all installed and then suddenly a load of new NI Instruments turn up a couple weeks later. I suspect if the new Alecia Keys product that comes with 15 Collectors edition is in the updates then I might have been lucky. But I think what we need to consider is when an update is an upgrade or vice versa. Getting hold of NI to answer the conundrum is going to be.

well that is a great freebie. I must have been within a grace period. Not complaining of course.