KOMPLETE 12 & 12 ULTIMATE Leak! Massive X Synthesizer, Kontakt 6...
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machinesworking machinesworking https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8505 - KVRAF
- 7969 posts since 15 Aug, 2003 from seattle
They upgraded the Komplete Control S88. It now has the LED screens, was hoping they would do that. In the mean time I got a perfectly fine MPK88, had it come out a couple months earlier....
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
Yes, the synths were what made NI. But these days there are lots of good synths around. Samples are what continue to sustain the company, and have been for years now. It’s a little like continuing to complain about how MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore.VitaminD wrote:
I'm so tired of NI throwing in more soundware shovelware into the package. It was the synths that made the company what it is... I wish they'd respect that more. I keep skipping upgrade versions because it is more junk added to the bundle that I never wanted. All I want are soft synth upgrades (and not tied to Reaktor or Kontakt).
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- KVRAF
- 2427 posts since 11 Jan, 2009 from Portland, OR, USA
deastman wrote:Yes, the synths were what made NI. But these days there are lots of good synths around. Samples are what continue to sustain the company, and have been for years now. It’s a little like continuing to complain about how MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore.VitaminD wrote:
I'm so tired of NI throwing in more soundware shovelware into the package. It was the synths that made the company what it is... I wish they'd respect that more. I keep skipping upgrade versions because it is more junk added to the bundle that I never wanted. All I want are soft synth upgrades (and not tied to Reaktor or Kontakt).
Neither of you have a blithering clue what "made" NI a successful business or what currently "sustains" their business, so stop talking out of your assess.
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- KVRAF
- 7872 posts since 21 Dec, 2002 from MD USA
mholloway wrote:deastman wrote:Yes, the synths were what made NI. But these days there are lots of good synths around. Samples are what continue to sustain the company, and have been for years now. It’s a little like continuing to complain about how MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore.VitaminD wrote:
I'm so tired of NI throwing in more soundware shovelware into the package. It was the synths that made the company what it is... I wish they'd respect that more. I keep skipping upgrade versions because it is more junk added to the bundle that I never wanted. All I want are soft synth upgrades (and not tied to Reaktor or Kontakt).
Neither of you have a blithering clue what "made" NI a successful business or what currently "sustains" their business, so stop talking out of your assess.
All they had at the start were synths, so how would that not make them?
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"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." Muhammad Ali
"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." Muhammad Ali
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- Pick Me Pick me!
- 10234 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from a state of confusion
You're the one posting such gems as this: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=509697&p=7144658#p7144658mholloway wrote:deastman wrote:Yes, the synths were what made NI. But these days there are lots of good synths around. Samples are what continue to sustain the company, and have been for years now. It’s a little like continuing to complain about how MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore.VitaminD wrote:
I'm so tired of NI throwing in more soundware shovelware into the package. It was the synths that made the company what it is... I wish they'd respect that more. I keep skipping upgrade versions because it is more junk added to the bundle that I never wanted. All I want are soft synth upgrades (and not tied to Reaktor or Kontakt).
Neither of you have a blithering clue what "made" NI a successful business or what currently "sustains" their business, so stop talking out of your assess.
Relax and try not to take the comments about a company to heart... they're not family.
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- KVRAF
- 8037 posts since 28 Dec, 2015 from Atlantis Island
Perhaps NI should think about freezing the current Kontakt in terms of backwards compatibility and release a Kontakt X rewritten from scratch with all new features which makes a market leader...EvilDragon wrote:Backwards compatibility is priority #1 for NI, so even if GUI changes, you'll still be able to load all your libraries from previous versions. And yes, they would look exactly the same.
I wouldn't say Kontakt is a victim of its own success, it's more likely that it's a victim of a number of things happening within NI internally throughout the years.
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- KVRAF
- 7872 posts since 21 Dec, 2002 from MD USA
anyone know if it's possible to install the libraries on 2 hard drives or do they all have to be on the same one?
my music: http://www.alexcooperusa.com
"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." Muhammad Ali
"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." Muhammad Ali
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- KVRAF
- 24403 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
Rewriting Kontakt from scratch won't happen I'm pretty sure.martinjuenke wrote:Perhaps NI should think about freezing the current Kontakt in terms of backwards compatibility and release a Kontakt X rewritten from scratch with all new features which makes a market leader...EvilDragon wrote:Backwards compatibility is priority #1 for NI, so even if GUI changes, you'll still be able to load all your libraries from previous versions. And yes, they would look exactly the same.
I wouldn't say Kontakt is a victim of its own success, it's more likely that it's a victim of a number of things happening within NI internally throughout the years.
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- KVRAF
- 1959 posts since 21 Sep, 2007 from The Infinite Void
Does anyone know if these expansions need to be installed in their entirety or if it's possible to just install the Battery kits and presets from each?
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- KVRAF
- 8037 posts since 28 Dec, 2015 from Atlantis Island
You can delete the not used parts / subfolders after installation. No problem.mutantdog wrote:Does anyone know if these expansions need to be installed in their entirety or if it's possible to just install the Battery kits and presets from each?
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- KVRAF
- 1701 posts since 25 Jul, 2009
I put some of the libraries on a second hard drive on my desktop.ATS wrote:anyone know if it's possible to install the libraries on 2 hard drives or do they all have to be on the same one?
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- KVRAF
- 37378 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Yes me too - they don't all fit on my 500GB SSD so some are on my Firewire drive, they all load via quickload so I don't need to browse around.felis wrote:I put some of the libraries on a second hard drive on my desktop.ATS wrote:anyone know if it's possible to install the libraries on 2 hard drives or do they all have to be on the same one?
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- KVRAF
- 9520 posts since 6 Oct, 2004
Feature-freezing Kontakt seems sensible, in light of the
difficulties mentioned.
A business decision to make ready a modern replacement can be
based on the simple math of sales, sales trends,
new hardware advancements, and the projected competition.
(I'd want to know what's brewing in the Camel office over
at Apple headquarters, for one...worry when it's too quiet
)
But the NI owner(s?) may also have personal and artistic concerns,
which dominate the financials. At the end of the work week,
you want to feel proud of the teams accomplishments,
on the way to the bank.
Cheers
difficulties mentioned.
A business decision to make ready a modern replacement can be
based on the simple math of sales, sales trends,
new hardware advancements, and the projected competition.
(I'd want to know what's brewing in the Camel office over
at Apple headquarters, for one...worry when it's too quiet
)But the NI owner(s?) may also have personal and artistic concerns,
which dominate the financials. At the end of the work week,
you want to feel proud of the teams accomplishments,
on the way to the bank.
Cheers
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- KVRAF
- 11994 posts since 12 May, 2008
It’s a bit annoying that they make a v6 of kontakt when it clearly isn’t needed, because is it a separate plugin? Meaning old producers with kontakt wouldn’t be automatically replaced when you install the new kontakt, so you end up needing both the old one and the new one. For what reason? Couldn’t they have added the small number of new features to the existing one? No need for a new vst name. And I think they know it because they hardly promoted the new kontakt since there is barely anything worth talking about. Only do a new version when you really need to.
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- KVRAF
- 24403 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
They've been adding small and not so small number of new features for 6 years into Kontakt 5, making it the single most long-lived version number of Kontakt ever. At some point you gotta make the cut. 
Also, this time around, there's no version number in the plugin name. It's just "Kontakt". Maybe that means we're going for more continuous/agile update cycles from this point onward, and no "Kontakt 7" or others ("this is the last version of Windows, ever"), I guess time will tell.
Also, this time around, there's no version number in the plugin name. It's just "Kontakt". Maybe that means we're going for more continuous/agile update cycles from this point onward, and no "Kontakt 7" or others ("this is the last version of Windows, ever"), I guess time will tell.