Re: [AH] warning about Kontakt 6

From Kenny Balys
Sent Fri, Sep 28th 2018, 18:24

For those with rooms full of ASR's and EPS's and Akai's and Emax samplers,
Chicken Sys is famous.

I think he also created the "Trans Wave" sound library for the ASR samplers.

Its genius stuff and if this man is concerned enough to post a warning
like this, then I am paying attention.

This winter I plan on spending a few weeks digging through my old master
tapes from the 80s using a restored Fostex X-15 and a little more digging
with my Akai sampler, Dr.T's sequencer and my Akai sound library
on my FPGA based Atari ST. This will be fun and its possible because everything is
compatible and works with everything else.

The locked in sound libraries of Kontakt will make a journey like this
impossible for people in 30 years. Their sound libraries are at the
mercy of NI... will they still support a tool to read them?
Are they under any obligation to? What if the company does not exist?

Its a classic "the customer wants what we tell them they want" move.

There is, no doubt, talk in the secret NI room about monthly billing
for software use. This is an obvious next step: turning customers
into dependent slaves, killing off all third party support, losing
all business from me.





On 28.09.18 12:54 , DJ Maytag wrote:
> Locked in? There’s a reason why I don’t use much of anything from NI. They’ve
> got their users hooked in to their upgrade cycles even MORE than Apple does.
>
> Also, I’ve never heard of Chicken Systems, but I find it funny they’re located
> in Willmar, MN, a very small farming community in southwest MN. It never struck
> me as a big place for music software development.
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:00 AM Kenny Balys <xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
> <mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>> wrote:
>
>
>     NI has my respect for creating Reaktor but
>     they are Apple'ing out with Kontakt.
>
>     This is the exact reason I place very low value
>     on plug-in synths.
>
>
>     On 28.09.18 04:45 , Lorne Hammond wrote:
>     > disturbing news that you should read if you use kontakt
>     >
>     >http://www.chickensys.com/news/20180927/lockedin.php
>     >
>     > lorne
>     >
>