Komplete 4 to Komplete 5 With DP

[croftish]

Anyone using Komplete 4 thinking of upgrading or has already upgraded to Komplete 5? I was wondering if I've much to gain, given that I already have Massive, from upgrading a perfectly stable system. I can't find a great deal of info about the changes/additions from 4 to 5. What does Kontakt 3 purport to do that 2 does not?
All/any advice welcome

Cheers,

Jim

[David Polich]

You need to move to Kontakt 3 now regardless. A lot of companies are rewriting their
VI's to run in Kontakt 3.5 only. There is a new Kontakt 3.5 Player that has "just" been made
available to many developers, so they are optimizing their code for both Kontakt 3.5 and the 3.5 player.

An example - Sample Modeling's "The Sax Brothers" isn't working in Kontakt 3.02. You will need Kontakt
3.5 to use it, or else run it on its own Kontakt 3.5 Player. Vir2's "Mojo" has been held up for ages because
Native Instruments has been so late in getting the 3.5 Player released. Now it seems that "Mojo" will finally
start shipping.

Kontakt 3.5 features 64-bit support and a lot of optimization improvements, resulting in less of a CPU
drain, among other things. It also seems to find missing samples more easily and loads instruments more quickly.