Damn bro, seems like your GAS is getting out of hand, Lol. Can't really say too much myself though having also recently acquired the NIKU9 bundle. Got to say I was going for the Komplete upgrade but thought what the hell & went the whole Ultimate deal as it was still a great price on my upgrade from K8. I'm just glad it comes on a hard drive as a DVD set would be a long ass time to load on. Even on the hard drive set aside an evening & a LOT of HD space to install. Having said that my install went very smoothly after I figured out where to put everything. I decided to clean install all libraries & trash the old K8 ones which freed up a lot of space (I of course saved all user banks etc.)
As you probably know there is soooo much stuff on there & the soundtrack stuff, damage etc. is crazy good especially because it uses Kontakt as it's main engine so you can pretty much do anything you want with it sample wise. Razor & Monark are very cool along with all the other stock synths it comes with & combined with the Maschine or a midi controller & your DAW of choice it really makes you wonder why anyone would spend a hell of a lot more cash on a solitary synth with a few knobs & keys & then have to buy a DAW as well for it to work properly.
Komplete Ultimate + Mashine = $1600
Virus TI Polar = $2990
