Interview with Urs (English)

[Erkenfresh]

I gotta admit, Kontakt is pretty darn good. I'm not sure what else I would want in a sampler. Urs would have to find some kind of niche to fill instead of trying to compete head-on with NI on that one.

[pdxindy]

I gotta admit, Kontakt is pretty darn good. I'm not sure what else I would want in a sampler. Urs would have to find some kind of niche to fill instead of trying to compete head-on with NI on that one.

Kontakt is pretty darn good for big sample libraries. It is not so good as a fast agile sampler. For one thing, it doesn't sample!

[a-type]

I use Renoise so all my sampler needs are catered for.

But a u-he drum synth?

[jupiter8]

I gotta admit, Kontakt is pretty darn good. I'm not sure what else I would want in a sampler. Urs would have to find some kind of niche to fill instead of trying to compete head-on with NI on that one.

There was talk about an U-He sampler a few years back. At the time i was thinking pretty much the same as you and was so curious what he had in mind.

When Diva came out it struck me,it so obvious, a vintage modelling sampler. Fairlight,Mirage,SP1200,EII people go nuts after those things. So that's my guess.

[Urs]

I'm kind of surprised that Urs has quite a few freelancers working for him these days and wonder why that is.

Well, the core team is of course full time employees. That includes DSP development, UI design, quality assurance and support.

In addition to our full time UI designer, we have a freelance artist for web/print who's on an artist visa and thus can't be employed. Another two or three designers work on several other parts every now and then, e.g. for Rack Extensions or other things. It's on and off, often just a week or two a year.

There are also a few freelance developer who usually aren't involved with our codebase directly. One of them for instance develops inhouse tools for us.

Then there's a bunch of preset designers who we hire seasonally.

I would love to hire more full time employees, but there are a few things that speak against it: For one thing, we need to earn enough money each month to pay for them. We had a few months this year where this was a close call. Another issue is space. We need a bigger office. Lastly, I'm not sure if I would really like it. I hired all those people to take work away from me, but I often feel the opposite is true. I sometimes think that more employees will cause me to do less fun stuff and more administrative work.

- Urs

[buescher]

Lastly, I'm not sure if I would really like it. I hired all those people to take work away from me, but I often feel the opposite is true. I sometimes think that more employees will cause me to do less fun stuff and more administrative work.

- Urs

So many "successful" people don't get this until it's too late. ("Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?")