NI Pro 54?

[EvilDragon]

Absynth came from a different codebase courtesy of Brian Clevinger and he was adamant about keeping it updated with new features and stuff. So that's why it stayed

You were implying DSI which absolutely wasn't the case with Pro-53 discontinuation etc. It had nothing to do with happenings in hardware synth world at the time.

[Synthman2000]

I know 53 is old but I like it. It can sound a little weedy/thin but you can beef it up. 54 would need to be V good. I suspect Repro will cover some of the ground that any 54 might. Different synth than the Pro one of course but I look forwards to u-He Repro. I hope it is not too expensive and maybe a sweetener for existing customers ?

[EvilDragon]

SCI Pro-One sounds quite different to Prophet-5, though, so I don't expect RePro-1 to cover nearly the same territory that Pro-53 used to. It'll be monophonic, for starters.

[Numanoid]

Absynth came from a different codebase courtesy of Brian Clevinger and he was adamant about keeping it updated with new features and stuff. So that's why it stayed

You were implying DSI which absolutely wasn't the case with Pro-53 discontinuation etc. It had nothing to do with happenings in hardware synth world at the time.

I get your point, but I am not convinced. Did you you work at NI at the time, or who told you this?

I am reading the details, but nothing convincing is mentioned there?

https://www.native-instruments.com/foru ... ils.92748/

The resources that we save on legacy instruments like B4 II and Pro-53 will now be utilized for more popular and versatile products like Kontakt, Guitar Rig etc.

Focus on Guitar Rig ? Since 2011 and GT5 that has got only minor updates.

BTW: Who was the programmer/coders behind The Pro 5 series of NI?

[bungle]

NI do not conventrate on anything, they are terrible hodge podge developers that need to get rid of some of the suits and hire more developers, look at the Maschine debacle, they ignore products right up to the point where customer complaints around the web are harming their sales, then they faux develop for a little while, then they discontinue.
In thd next few years NI will be nothing but
Reaktor
Kontakt
Guitar rig
Traktor
Maschine

And i suspect Maschine will be gone soon enough too

[Numanoid]

Wow, that is some interesting info:

The Pro-Five (later to become the Pro-52/Pro-53) developed by Native Instruments as the first third-party produced VST instrument was released at nearly the same time as Model-E.

Yvan: We had a very close relationship with Native Instruments at that time. They have become quite large now, but back then they were a small software developer company.

Matthias: While Pro-Five was certainly the first third-party produced VST instrument, we were very involved in the development.

So Pro-Five were more or less made by Steinberg ?
http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/vst/vst_story.html

[electro]

I always thought Pro 53 ran on the Reaktor engine, even though it was standalone.

[Echoes in the Attic]

I always thought Pro 53 ran on the Reaktor engine, even though it was standalone.

None of their other standalone synths run on the Reaktor engine (obviously not including the Reaktor ensembles that are sold separately), though they were sometimes designed using Reaktor first. People often think this of Massive for example too.

[waltercruz]

Yes, Massive is said to be prototyped on Reaktor.

http://www.soundonsound.com/music-busin ... nstruments

BTW, reading this interview/article/ad, it becomes really clear that somehow Reaktor was the core of what they wanted to do.

"We tried to come as close as possible to the prototypes in Reaktor in the C++ engine," Product Manager Frank Elting explains, "and we transferred all the oversampling things we did in Reaktor to the engine. If possible we wanted to get the Reaktor pure sound, without too many thoughts of CPU consumption."