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c0nsilience · Post by **c0nsilience** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 10:35 am

Vital anyone?

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:53 am

enCiphered wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:12 am As for Native Instruments... yeah, Absynth is the best example but at least they no longer sell it.

I wish they still sold it.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:54 am

Choikdoi · Post by **Choikdoi** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:09 pm

What were they called?.... Septa... Specto... Specta... I forget, it's been so long.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:15 pm

There was Spectral from Linplug, but they aren’t selling products anymore.

lotus2035 · Post by **lotus2035** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:35 pm

Examigan wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:53 am
enCiphered wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:12 am As for Native Instruments... yeah, Absynth is the best example but at least they no longer sell it.
I wish they still sold it.

You've heard of Plasmonic right? Not sure how similar to Absynth it is but same dev at least.
https://rhizomatic.fr/index.php/home/

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:41 pm

Not abandoned but used to be available as a VST. Right when I decided to get it, they put it back into the Reason ecosystem so you now it only comes with Reason or the Reason Rack (and I don't know what that is)

Cuauhtli · Post by **Cuauhtli** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:55 pm

Vital has been abandoned?

Nug Wrangler · Post by **Nug Wrangler** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:05 pm

Cuauhtli wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:55 pm Vital has been abandoned?

Seems so

Hyperbole · Post by **Hyperbole** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:43 pm

martiu wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:43 pm native instruments reaktor

I would say every Native Instruments product. Okay, perhaps Massive X will receive maintenance upgrades for a few more years. But when, after 5+ years, the company can't create resizable UIs for the products it continues to sell, I call that "abandonment." And a slap in the face to their long-time customers of 25 years.

Oh well, a slap in the face is the necessary equivalent of a wake-up call (to mix metaphors). It's a call saying, "Never buy another Native Instruments product because their Private Equity overlords are either uninterested in or incapable of supporting these products."

Hyperbole · Post by **Hyperbole** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:57 pm

Choikdoi wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:09 pm What were they called?.... Septa... Specto... Specta... I forget, it's been so long.

If you are referring to Spectrasonics, the only product of theirs I might consider "abandoned" is Stylus RMX. But honestly, who cares? That was always a dumb, bad-sounding product anyway. Slicing drum loops in ReCycle and then going to extraordinary lengths to clean up all the artifacts that ReCycle introduces only to end up with stiff, artificial-sounding loops was a terrible idea from the start.

Just give me one of the many great-sounding, deeply sampled drum plugins, and I will program my own beats. Or give me a library of great-sounding drum loops, and I will timestretch them using one of several excellent-sounding, modern timestretch algorithms to fit the tempo/feel of my song.

As far as Omnisphere goes, Spectrasonics has provided one significant upgrade after another for free. They could call such upgrades "Omnisphere 3," "Omnisphere 4 XL," etc. like everyone else and then people might not complain so much. I, for one, find it refreshing that they don't play such games.

Plus, Spectrasonics have released their "Sonic Extensions" for Omnisphere which are almost like mini products that use the company's "STEAM" engine. So they are working on new things, just maybe not at the pace that some people might prefer.

Choikdoi · Post by **Choikdoi** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:14 pm

Hyperbole wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:57 pm So they are working on new things, just maybe not at the pace that some people might prefer.

This

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:37 pm

Ariesverb. Still available to purchase in the KvR webshop..

Oh how I wish this magical plugin was updated to native Apple silicon. I would gladly pay full price again for that to happen.

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:22 pm

Choikdoi wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:09 pm What were they called?.... Septa... Specto... Specta... I forget, it's been so long.

I know what you're talking about. They used to come up regularly at KVR for their plugins that never really specified what they did. Seen pretty much as a scam company. Anyone remember the name?

EDIT: Oh wait...I'm thinking of Cryosonic. Guess i was off base on that one although they did have a plugin called Spectralive.

UltimateOutsider · Post by **UltimateOutsider** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 10:05 pm

Hyperbole wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:43 pm
martiu wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:43 pm native instruments reaktor
I would say every Native Instruments product.

When I started this thread, NI and AIR were both kind of in the back of my mind. I don't consider them abandoned in the sense that you can still get customer support for them, and they appear to make bug fixes to the products still in their active catalog- but any business that gets picked up in a leveraged buyout is almost guaranteed to stop innovating, and to focus on maximizing financial growth over delivering cutting-edge products that delight customers.

Abandoned plugins that are still available for sale?