Native Instruments to be acquired by inMusic

[jamcat]

When the original developer leaves for greener pastures the company is stuck with code that takes exponentially more time to fix than developing a completely new plugin.

You’re talking about the age-old problem of technical debt. However, one of the great advantages of the AI revolution is it renders technical debt irrelevant.

Completely untrue.

Oh yeah? Tell us more

[Jim Roseberry]

MPC gets most of the resources, people, assets, and time. But when you're pouring 90% of your water into the throat of your favourite child in the middle of the desert, you shouldn't really be too surprised when the other 18 children die of heatstroke.

Not saying it's great or anything like that...
But, out of their line of products, MPC is the cash-cow.
I can't think of any other product (under their umbrella) that has that kind of potential.
Economic realities can be brutal.
Look at Emulator and Ensoniq. Bought by Creative and vaporized.

[BBFG#]

For me, the best things about NI have not been NI, but the 3rd party developers libraries for it. Hoping beyond hope they start porting those to other formats. Or that other companies start popping up that evolve the best of NI to something they refused to just to maintain their "industry standard status quo".

[Amberience]

When the original developer leaves for greener pastures the company is stuck with code that takes exponentially more time to fix than developing a completely new plugin.

You’re talking about the age-old problem of technical debt. However, one of the great advantages of the AI revolution is it renders technical debt irrelevant.

Completely untrue.

Oh yeah? Tell us more

LLMs are good at pattern completion. They are not magical replacements for system understanding.

If anything AI risks creating even more debt because people can now generate thousands of lines of plausible looking code faster than ever, often without understanding the architecture underneath it.

[jamcat]

Keep telling yourself that.

[jamcat]

80% of all product code that Google produces is AI generated. AI can analyze large, complex code bases and understand it far better than the programmers who created it in a matter of minutes.

There are now exactly zero massive scale programs and large development teams that are not heavily leveraging AI for development.

[IvyBirds]

InMusic probably deserves some of the vitriol.
That said, I think they've done a pretty good job developing the MPC platform.
If you look at companies that could have swooped-in and bought NI, InMusic does make sense.
They have the infrastructure... and existing products that at least potentially make it a good fit.
How it actually works out... we'll see.

From a selfish standpoint, I'd like to see more NI options available for the MPC platform.
Kontakt (even a lighter version) running on MPC would be great.

I'd like to see NI actually get back to innovating.
Komplete 26 has a lot of content... but I already have Komplete 14 Collector's Edition.
Not much additional that I'd actually use.
I'm better off purchasing Kontakt 8 a-la-carte.

I think the fear and loathing that many of us have is that inMusic will focus primarily on making NI part of MPC and allow everything and everyone else who doesn't want to be involved in the MPC ecosystem to wither on the vine

It seems the people most excited about this are all MPC users, but the very reasons you are excited over are things the rest of us worry about

[Amberience]

Keep telling yourself that.

As someone who uses agentic code tools every day to help me with audio plugin development, aye. Sure. I will keep telling myself that.

[TechHaus]

80% of all product code that Google produces is AI generated.

I don't think that means what you think it means.

[jamcat]

Keep telling yourself that.

As someone who uses agentic code tools every day to help me with audio plugin development, aye. Sure. I will keep telling myself that.

Oh, I see. You use tools you don’t believe in to complete your work. Got it.

Listen up everyone, Amberience is warning you to stay far away from the tools he takes advantage of, because they’re dangerous and don’t work!

[jamcat]

80% of all product code that Google produces is AI generated.

I don't think that means what you think it means.

Then you don’t know what it means.

[seangm]

Does every f*cking thing have to turn into an argument over AI now? Can you move this sh*t to the AI forum?

[dayjob]

Akai MPC Maschine Komplete Kore

[jamcat]

Yeah, I wish. Unfortunately, you can’t even state how shit actually is in the real world around here without some witch finder general charging in to shout “burn the witch!”

They don’t know how any of this works, but they know it frightens them and must be denied.

[machinesworking]

It seems the people most excited about this are all MPC users, but the very reasons you are excited over are things the rest of us worry about

The Air instruments designed to work with the MPC in standalone also work as AU and VST, so there's some precedent for further compatibility not making NI an embedded instrument only in the MPC, if that's your worry.

Plus, these are all the new Air instruments, not Loom, Hybrid etc. with technical debt etc.