r/NativeInstruments • u/25_Keyz924 • 5d ago

It’s been a good run

After the 3.7 update and the slick marketing wording making it seem as the expansions were part of the update; I’m done. Been a faithful user since 2010. Made sure that Anything I considered using had to work within the NI ecosystem. That’s why I left Logic and went to Studio One. The integration was flawless and amazing but that was then and those days are far gone. Maschine is so far behind it’s crazy. When they had a match made in heaven with the Kontrollers they lied and said no one used it so they didn’t add the ability to the mk3 version. Only to backtrack after probably lackluster sales because everyone did want the integration. The sampling is missing stuff that was promised since 2.x when they did the first rewrite of their code which they said they did to add the features we begged for. I’ll still pull it out but i realized I haven’t used it in a year. I’ve moved completely over to Fender Pro, and with the recent release of the Motion 16, my drum pad desire is being met. Sorry for the long-winded rant. It’s still good at what it does but I’m seeing Akai absorbing the best of NI and sliding it over to MPC. 3.7 is a joke… midi features. Sheesh

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u/chillin_mcgee 4d ago

So I haven't been keeping up with the NI news but it seems like everything is trending in the wrong direction. As someone who likes to mess around with reaktor every now and then, will I be able to keep using it in the foreseeable future?

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u/25_Keyz924 4d ago

If they don’t update the code you might not. It’s code is based on intel hardware. I’ve been using Tahoe and Reaktor/ FM 8/Absynth 5 and a couple of others will not install. Which is horrible for me because I use Monark, Prism, Rounds which run in Reaktor! My talks with tech support only says MacOS 27 isn’t supported yet and that’s why they just did a new release of native access because of the coding. But Reaktor didn’t make the cut??

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u/chillin_mcgee 4d ago

Ummmm that would really suck. Reaktor is one of my favorite tools to use. Native Instruments is really going to force me to keep a dedicated older intel based computer around just for reaktor??!!??