LinusW
Senior Member
Back in september I had a distributor give me a demonstration on Komplete 12. I asked for a Kontakt 6 showcase. He showed me the larger Kontakt window and some new general and boring instrument libraries. So I asked for new features, what does Kontakt 6 actually bring to users to call it v6? More knobs? Optimization?
-...well, the sound libraries are essentially it. There are so much more that can be made for third-party developers.
-Ok?
-We've got tools for developers making new possibilities.
-So version 6 is more about developers creating content than for the composer noodling around in the plugin?
-We don't have any third-party libraries for Kontakt 6 right now, but I'm sure a lot of folks are working on new libraries using new features. I think this spring will be amazing.
So more than 6 months later, Massive X is still not released, no articles on new features in Kontakt 6 and I've yet to see a single 3rd party library requiring Kontakt 6.
On the contrary, I see developers ready to abandon the Kontakt environment.
Spitfire Audio made their own sample player, Orchestral Tools has revealed theirs too, UJAM and Soundiron libraries have been recast into Rack Extensions so Reason users won't need Kontakt, even more developers I can't mention are working on sampler engines...
It seems like nobody wants to be the one forcing Kontakt users to upgrade because not even Native Instruments could motivate users on their own.
-...well, the sound libraries are essentially it. There are so much more that can be made for third-party developers.
-Ok?
-We've got tools for developers making new possibilities.
-So version 6 is more about developers creating content than for the composer noodling around in the plugin?
-We don't have any third-party libraries for Kontakt 6 right now, but I'm sure a lot of folks are working on new libraries using new features. I think this spring will be amazing.
So more than 6 months later, Massive X is still not released, no articles on new features in Kontakt 6 and I've yet to see a single 3rd party library requiring Kontakt 6.
On the contrary, I see developers ready to abandon the Kontakt environment.
Spitfire Audio made their own sample player, Orchestral Tools has revealed theirs too, UJAM and Soundiron libraries have been recast into Rack Extensions so Reason users won't need Kontakt, even more developers I can't mention are working on sampler engines...
It seems like nobody wants to be the one forcing Kontakt users to upgrade because not even Native Instruments could motivate users on their own.