i’ve been saying that for about NI awhile now.
They do some rather annoying things and it’s right up there as the best way to screw their users. Like Komplete bundle pricing vs their other products individually and bulking it up with a hard drive full of questionable/junk samples to justify what a ripoff the whole thing is.
Really all I use from them anymore is Battery 4. It’s pretty rare I can’t get around using Reaktor using something less time consuming.
fear not, one time payment of several hundreds dollars/euros worth of software is the elitist past, now everyone can access the building blocks for their musical journey for a mere monthly subscription of a few dozens dollars/euros, rent seeking is the future
fwd>>>>
neofeudalism but without the cool shit like knights and dragons 
NI been suck
kontakt can fuck the shit off
lolll going through all that trouble making that complete piece of shit “song” at the end ffs
oh i didnt listen just looked
Yeah thought the same, as soon as any software I already own becomes subscription only, I’m out
I like Kontakt, it’s just overkill for what most of us are doing. Meaning, the actual size of the libraries being massive to supply more realistic sounding instrument samples. Vs. the amount of sample mangling/manipulations which can be done in quite a few of the more lightweight (and often free) samplers.
What I do really like about Battery is just how you can so easily and graphically shift the sample start and end points of each cell’s sample. It’s a pretty nice feature.
but I’d much rather put any money into hardware instruments anyway.
kontakt is the closest piece of technology we have to time machines, you open the edit mode, and boom its 1995 all over again
Kontakt is still my go to sampler, I’ve probably been using it since the 90s tho so I know my way around.
But yeah, it is clunky
i would like to get in kontakt with its manager
tbh kontakt is not anymore aimed at the avg music nerd looking for a quick way to tinker with samples, the target audience is the hollywood type guy who buys the latest orchestral libraries an churns out big drum hits/orchestral yadda yadda paint-by-the-numbers soundtrack kinda stuff for movies and ads, and indirectly the 3rd parties devs who use kontakt to build said libraries
i dont like any samplers tbf
exactly. For me, if I use a software sampler I just want something lightweight on resources and quick to work with. I like TAL quite a bit. Maybe Halion would be sort of the happy medium. I do use the Logic Quick Sampler a lot since 10.5 update changes, and often enough I just load samples directly to audio channels.
If I do intend to spend more time on something than that it gets stuck into an Emu.
Didn’t realise they made a sampler. Just downloaded it. I’ve been using Reaper’s stock sampler which is V basic. I’ve got a couple of TAL plugins already so looking forward to giving their sampler a go.
I know this is very predictable coming from me but Ableton sampler is, as they say, peng
samplers are like eating a live eel with one chopstick
its only made up asian proverbs from me from now on
