While that's all true and I have sympathy with it, you took my comment in isolation from all the other problems NI are having. Coding seems to be at the heart of it. A lot of their core products have had no significant updates for a very long time. And again, K5.6 is a bust, and Kontrol has barely inched toward the starting line in years.loachm wrote:...doesn't need to be that way. What I have heard was that they were working on some bold features that ultimately didn't work out.noiseboyuk wrote: And finally Kontakt 6 appears to be having major problems of its own.
Generelly speaking, I think that's also development work - sometimes things actually need to be built, before, unfortunately, you're able to tell with absolute certainty that this or that won't work or affects these or those things. Some scenarios can't be solved theoretically or some aspects can only be discovered along the way - and I was told this had been the case here. I think, customers often don't seem to take this into account. I once read a comment from a library developer here (think, it was Mike Green), that he's telling his customers that they're not only paying him for the results he delivers, but also for the time he needs to rule out things to get there...
NI are the big beasts in our field. They should have the best coders, and they used to. From an outsider's perspective, one can't help but speculate over some management problems to be in this position, there is something systemic going on here. It's starting to feel a bit like - gulp - Avid.
