https://musictech.com/news/industry/native-instruments-preliminary-insolvency/One of the biggest music software and hardware developers is imploding as we speak. They develop an engine that countless virtual instrument and sample developers use as the bedrock for their products.
>>107992761They suck, good riddance.In other news, the Surge XT devs have been busy updating the Shortcircuit source code and it's already taking shape nicely.
>>107992789They're incredibly important to anyone who seriously makes music. I don't know a single professional that doesn't use something from Native Instruments in their workflow. The amount of things Kontakt interconnects to is massive.
they kinda deserve it but what will happen to my fm8 and massive loicenses?
>>107992824Exactly. I can't wait for sample library producers to start releasing their instruments in sforzando format rather than be locked in the Kontakt ecosystem.
>Since 2021, Native Instruments has been majority-owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners. >Since then, the company has also acquired music brands including iZotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance. damn it's worse than I thought
>>107992761I guess I should have upgraded to Komplete Ultimate during the winter sale.
>>107992827>what will happen to my loicenses?
i've used kontakt before, and liked the sounds i got from it. But it's such a pain to load up instruments. it's so slow and clunky. If i'm in the studio and i'm using the same instruments a lot and i have them set up and ready to go or whatever fine. but i'm not, i'm just some guy who likes to make shit beats. i aint got time for that bullshit.
>>107992958What are you loading, and what kind of hard drive are you on? Unless it's some fatass legato string samples, any ssd should be able to load a modern Kontakt instrument incredibly easily.
>>107992894>private equityThat's the reason why.Someone will buy off NI in the end and the cycle will repeat again.
These virtual instruments cost too much, it's ridicolous
>>107992991You should look up the price of a Fairlight back in the day.
i think best case scenario, splice steps in and buys the parts they wantfunniest thing would be if suno bought kontakt lol
>>107992998people paid for music, back in the day
>>107993025wtf
>>107992824>They're incredibly important haven't been that important in over a decade>The amount of things Kontakt interconnects to is massive.what year is this? 2015?>>107992998>comparing software vsts to a rare computer created at the ass end of the 1970s that only rich studio owners and rich producers could ever affordyeah you're fucking stupid son.>>107993025>people paid for music back in the day>when everyone was bootlegging tapes in the millionslowest iq imageboard on the internet
>>107993102>what year is this? 2015?Alright, what's your bullshit? What are you gonna argue is comparable to Kontakt in terms of this industry? Yeah, a couple companies have tried to branch out and make their own stand-alone player, but literally nothing has the breadth and reach of Kontakt. Especially if you're not a major player like Eastwest, or Orchestral Tools.
>>107993102>when everyone was bootlegging tapes in the millionsyes, there was DEFINITELY more bootleg cassette tapes made of albums featuring the Fairlight CMI such as Queen, Kate Bush and Jean Michelle Jarre, than the MeRe HaNdFuLl of unauthorized mp3 copies you would get today. And thats why albums sell so many MORE COPIES now than back then, and make SO MUCH MORE MONEY now than they did then. Oh no wait, you're just full of fucking shite, actually.The Fairlight CMI cost $50,000 and maybe sold a few hundred, bought by cunts like Eno and the above-mentioned. Its an incredibly niche product, sold at a time when producing albums was much more profitable. Its a stupid comparison and all the halfwits in the world arguing otherwise would not change one iota of that fact.
>>107993161>>107993124>chatgpt slop vomited up by a loser that can't even read englishthis board is embarrassing.
>>107993182Nigger explain to me a more ubiquitous sampler than Kontakt. You can't, because there isn't one. Kontakt going away would be a big fucking deal.
>>107993182response as expected, argument? none.away play in the traffic.
just buy a JBL bluetooth speaker? lol
>>107993102>sat alone at lunch in highschool post physiognomy/me farts on the cringeanon
