What Exactly is a Crossgrade / Update / Upgrade?
A product acquired through an Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade is identical to the full version of the same product and offers the same features and functionality as the full version.
The difference lies in its license type, which is dependent on a "qualifying base product" - and the price, since all Updates / Upgrades / Crossgrades are offered with a discount.
In other words: if you already own a qualifying base product, you can purchase the Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade product at a discounted price. Here are some examples:
- Owners of Komplete 2-14 can purchase the discounted 'Update' to Komplete 15.
- Owners of a Komplete Select (that comes e.g. with the Komplete Kontrol S-Series) can purchase the discounted 'Upgrade' to Komplete 15.
- Owners of an official third-party Kontakt library can purchase the discounted 'Crossgrade to Kontakt 8'.
How Do I Qualify?
To find out if you qualify for any discounts, log in to our webshop with the same email address you used to activate your products. As soon as you visit a pricing page or press the BUY NOW button, our webshop will always suggest the best price and license automatically.
Note: If you want to obtain information about the various license types of a product, you can also choose a license type by clicking one of the tiles on the product's pricing page to show the list of qualifying base products.
Important Information
- Do not purchase an Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade, if you do not own the qualifying base product. You will not be able to activate and install it.
- You can sell the license for the Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade - but please clarify beforehand that the new user also has to own a qualifying base product to activate it.
- If you registered an Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade and sell the qualifying base product, the Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade license becomes inactive - because you need the qualifying base product for the Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade in your account. For instance, if you upgraded Komplete 13 to Komplete 15 Ultimate, you cannot remove Komplete 14 from your account without Komplete 15 Ultimate becoming invalid.
- You may also purchase a qualifying base product and an Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade in the same order, but as our webshop scans software activation in our database and NOT your shopping cart, you should ignore the warning that "you don´t own a qualifying base product" for the Update / Upgrade / Crossgrade".