H20nly wrote:no way! physical media is a good thing to have. maybe not in this case, but i think its a bad idea not to have something more permanent. think of it like this, you can put your pictures, your tax return, or any sensitive info that you want to maintain on a CD. then, you can put that CD in a box, safe, in YOUR possession, not the cloud... that pillar of trust everyone thinks has only their very best interest that of their personal information in mind. there is no working parts on that disc, nothing to break (like on a flash drive). all you need is a reader... which will be around for a while longer.
having to download enough information to fill up 12 DVDs...
Good point but even for that you don’t need the workhorse drive you used to have to need and I’m sure manufacturers know that. You just need a drive that can read and write occasionally but doesn’t need to handle 6+ hours of installing something.
I forgot to mention I also bought a $30 external drive specifically for this install because I thought my iMac’s built-in drive was on the fritz. Sloooooow and then the error massages. The new drive ended up doing the same thing.
glitchrock-buddha wrote:If it's an upgrade, why do you have to install all the content again? The first disc has the new software (Battery and Monark) and then just check the new content (Giant and Session Strings). Nothing else has changed. Did you get a new computer or something? Or were you upgrading from a much earlier version?
For a full install, Komplete Ulitmate was a blessing since it came on a hard drive. Installing Komplete Standard used to be such a Pain. This time it was just plug-in hit install and walk away for 2 hours.
I was upgrading from Komplete 6. But even then I bought several of the expansion packs that are now part of Komplete 9. I assumed during the install process it scanned the drive ahead of time to see what is already on there. The box said it’s a 120G install but after it prepared to install it said I only needed 89G of space. So I dunno. But also you don’t know what is on what disc. So the content I didn’t already have could be on disc I which I didn’t get or disc J it can’t go to without first putting in I.
The main thing that turned me off to Ultimate is the drive size it takes up, but since you mentioned it I don't know what percentage of that I already have on the drive. I was looking at it as if I needed that total space available.
The second turn off was the price for which is mostly sample content. I don't use Kontakt all that much as it is.
