something new from NI

[SJ_Digriz]

I'm not complaining, but this update doesn't hit my interest button. I can see how certain people would be excited, especially if you use Battery.

I have rarely used Battery, and I don't think I've touched it in years. BFD and Studio Drummer do everything I need.

I won't use the new effects as I have UAD-2.

Monark seems more like a throw in because they knew how skimpy K9 was looking.

The piano stuff is not interesting to me as I have plenty of good sample piano sets.

I don't need more crappy string libraries.

So basically, nothing to see here for me. Which is unfortunate, but at least it saves me a few sheckles. I went from 5 to 8. I'll probably go from 8 to 10 or 11.

[cron]

What's so bad about YT's audio? Seems clear enough to me to hear what it sounds like.

It's good quality but it's also compressed to stream over the internet at a reduced file size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs

192kbps AAC is transparent to the original for most. Golden ears?

lol I was just joking around about the golden ears thing. As for the compression link, I only pointed that out because of the previous comments to mine.

[aMUSEd]

Is this all?



So much ado about a new Reaktor ensemble?

Looks like a nice skin job of Charlatan...

Those predicting Reaktor 6 now has egg permanently dripping from their face

I am a bit disappointed too. Not only about just being another Reaktor ensemble instead of a really new Standalone synth but also about it being another Minimoog clone. It's not that i don't like Minimoog emulations but i was expecting something really new or more flexible (or at least with ADSR envelopes...).


Ingo

Well yes but the advantage of it being a Reaktor ensemble is we get to take it apart and incorporate bits into other, more complex, ensembles

[EvilDragon]

I don't need more crappy string libraries.

Action Strings definitely isn't "crappy". In fact it is extremely usable.

[aMUSEd]

There is a certain irony here, I still have the original copy of Computer music that reviewed 2 of the very first commercial softsynths - Steinberg Model E and Native Instruments Pro 5 side by side. And now Model E (the first Minimoog emu) is freeware and NI release a Minimoog emu of their own. How the world turns!

[hakey]

Things not going too well for NI's clown crew.

Before:



After:

[pdxindy]

And you can even smell the perfume of hot circuits and plastics.

and after a few years you get an occasional crackle when turning a pot

[highkoo]

Gosh I couldnt care any less NI.

Looks lovely though!
Do we know who did the GUI or is just attributed to 'NI Scientist #917' or something?

[EvilDragon]

The GUI for Monark? Says so in the manual on the last page (Efflam Le Bivic).

[aMUSEd]

Is this all?



So much ado about a new Reaktor ensemble?

Looks like a nice skin job of Charlatan...

Well only to the extent that they are both inspired by the Minimoog interface (as are a gazillion other softsynths)

[Numanoid]

I just see a certain linkage between these ad boisterings

"one synth to rule them all" -> Monark

"John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch" -> Daikatana

When you make those kind of statements, there is a tendency to fall flat on your face, unless you are Joe Namath of course

[pdxindy]

"one synth to rule them all" -> Monark

NI must be dropping all their other synths...

An absurd statement to make at all... but especially for a monophonic synth that cannot apply velocity to cutoff... hehehe

[dune_rave]

This is all marketing bullshit...
Where's the next update to FM8?

[robogone]

This is all marketing bullshit...
Where's the next update to FM8?

Sorry, don't know - the marketing bullshit didn't mention product release details beyond the next one.

[SWAN808]

I cant believe they used the tagline 'one synth to rule them all' for a monophonic synth...a moog emulation that basic...