Hello fellow MK2 users...
Having just given 3.0 a test drive with my MK2, here are my observations at first blush...
- Midi page exactly the same.
- Search/Preview now matches Kontakt which we already knew from preview videos.
- Multi's the same (i.e. light guide activation between one instance and another can only be done with mouse click on orange box).
- There seems to now be a very noticeable lag between previewing and searching on the keyboard and what you seen on screen (the window is MUCH slower now).
- You can't resize KK search window (bottom right resize button) like you can on Kontakt 7. I do find that surprising. I guess that mean that the changes to the Komplete Kontrol "window" or "container" are only cosmetic? Anyone at NI interested in clarifying this?
As far as I can tell, there is no real benefit to me from updating to 3.0 that makes it worth bricking my MK1 into midi mode.
It seems that all the functionality benefits are built into the hardware which is not surprising to me, really. But still I am interested to see what differences and benefits others can find? Maybe I missed something crucial. But I am already thinking of reverting back to 2.9.4.
EDIT: Actually I now find myself quite annoyed. I kind of feel cheated. I spent 1600CAD on my S88 and for literally years I have been dreaming of KK 3.0 (with significant improvements) only to finally find/realize that my MK2 functionality/integration has been entirely leap-frogged by 3.0! Apart from being made backwards compatible that is which is more than I can say for my MK1.
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System:
Windows 11 PRO
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
64 GB Ram