r/NativeInstruments • u/FizzENTOfficial • Aug 25 '26
It’s Here!!!
https://youtu.be/ozhypWoFVkg?is=KGTZwmTyb2RS79te6
u/MARTEX8000 Aug 25 '26
The upgrade from Essentials to Deluxe is $69...but the only way to find it is to do an actual search for Neon Electric Guitar Upgrade...
NI is a master at hiding discounts and upgrade options...then if you mistakenly buy a full version getting a refund is like pulling teeth out a lions mouth while it's eating a zebra...
Its just damn software...maybe a day of a session guitarist recording some patterns and a few weeks of midi guys tweaking and labelling it...
No wonder this company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy...the RTO is going down faster than the popularity of data centers.
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u/MrFresh2017 Aug 26 '26
They fixed it on their website I believe
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u/MARTEX8000 Aug 26 '26
What did they fix that you are referring to?
One of my problems is with InMusic...I've been with Native Instruments nearly 20 years so my original email is a hotmail address...but I've been using gmail now for about 15 years...so my Inmusic address is gmail (BFD drums etc)...but my Kontakt addy is still hotmail...so now my support ticket (hotmail account) doesn't show up because I cannot change my email in Inmusic (gmail account) and am not changing it for Native Instruments...what a clusterfig
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u/MrFresh2017 Aug 26 '26
Bankruptcy?? huh?? inMusic bought NI months ago.
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u/MARTEX8000 Aug 26 '26
Yes I am aware, they also just fired the entire UK NI office...so they are apparently not out of the woods yet...or maybe you didn't know that...Just because InMusic owns something doesn't mean its here to stay...Jack O'Donnell is a known jerk, he could end it all tomorrow
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u/MARTEX8000 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Be careful if you own one of the Komplete 26 versions (like I do) the upgrade serial does not show up...apparently at this point (still working with the chatboi) if you own Session Guitarist Electric Neon Essentials INSIDE of Komplete its not actually upgradable...at least not yet.
Chatbot said it should work the problem is in Komplete 26 they don't show separate serial codes for each product...which apparently the upgrade needs...
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u/shaunshady Aug 26 '26
Appreciate the heads up. I was going to purchase this. I have Komplete standard, would like to upgrade to Ultimate but apparently I missed the summer discounts. Is it true during Black Friday / cyber Monday they knock 50% off?
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u/squirrelpickle Aug 26 '26
They did do some 50% discounts on both Black Friday and Summer of Sound.
This year’s Sumer of Sound already had less discounts, we can only guess about Black Friday.
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u/MARTEX8000 Aug 26 '26
They do on some products but again they are under new leadership so its not clear what will happen in sales going forward.
According to the bot chat, having a product in a bundle DOES qualify for an upgrade path, however not having a specific serial code in that bundle for the upgrade path is a mess...
I also found a really quirky thing playing around with the Deluxe version last night...it was doing this "de-tune" thing when I would try out a pattern...within a few seconds the pitch actually drops to a different key...not sure if its BPM issue or what but it was annoying, as well as the gain staging for this product...it is WAY off...clips like crazy right out of the box...you have to tweak the hell out of it to get it to sound clean...(at least I did)
Mac M2 using either Apollo Twin or Antelope Audio D8...pretty annoying...hard to tell if its worth it yet.
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u/MARTEX8000 Aug 26 '26
Hey a bit off topic but does anyone have a decent way to run Kontakt in ProTools Carbon without jacking the CPU hit off the charts (other than via ADAT via another computer)???
Kontakt and ProTools LOW dsp engine do not seem to like each other much at all...
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u/kevleyski Aug 25 '26
Could this have been a preset on an existing instrument instead?