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    Member Posts: 20 Member
    edited October 2024 in Kontakt

    Hi,

    I'm thinking of getting Kontakt 7. Is there any point of keeping Kontakt 5 on my computer if I go to 7?

    Rob

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    • Member Posts: 906 Guru
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      https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/45864#Comment_45864

      Deletiing 5 won't free up much space. It's up to you whether you want to delete the entire KFL. You might regret it though.

      Your project will treat both as two different plugins. K7 won't intelligently load all your instruments with any of the tweaks that you make in that project. Think about it.

      I sitll have some K2 and K3 instruments stored and I use them because they're different.

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    • Moderator Posts: 4,344 mod

      Hello,

      you can keep it if you have many projects with kontakt 5 loaded. The daw can not automatically switch to another plugin with the same instrument.

    • Member Posts: 906 Guru
      edited December 2022

      All of your projects containing K5 will be broken if you do that. Newer versions of Kontakt don't supersede previous versions existing on your system.

    • Member Posts: 20 Member

      I rarely revisit my old projects, so I'm guessing it should be OK. It's just I'm getting low on hard drive space. I have all my projects and samples on USB, but I keep Kontakt on the hard drive, I feel it runs better there. Thanks for the advice.

    • Member Posts: 20 Member

      Is there a way of saving a K5 project so it can be opened by K7?

    • Member Posts: 906 Guru
      Answer ✓
      https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/45864#Comment_45864

      Deletiing 5 won't free up much space. It's up to you whether you want to delete the entire KFL. You might regret it though.

      Your project will treat both as two different plugins. K7 won't intelligently load all your instruments with any of the tweaks that you make in that project. Think about it.

      I sitll have some K2 and K3 instruments stored and I use them because they're different.

    • Moderator Posts: 4,344 mod
      https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/45864#Comment_45864

      You can just try it and decide then if you can kick kontakt 5. What do you mean with K5 project, but everything you save in K5 should work in k7

    • Customer Care Posts: 13,856 mod

      To add to that, there is a plan to implement a migration from Kontakt 6 to 7 in most of DAWs, like it's already the case for Komplete Kontrol, Maschine and Cubase, but this will take some time to happen and would not apply from K5 to K7, AFAIK.

    • Member Posts: 20 Member

      I don't have a lot of K5 projects, so I'm thinking it won't be a huge issue if I get rid of it. I'll see how my computer runs when I download K7.

      Should have bought the larger SSD.

      Thanks everyone.

      Rob

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