@@SpyderBlackOfficialThats what's up brother. You are gonna love it for sure. Don't forget to support and hit the link when you do! Can't wait to hear what you create with it! Thanks so much for coming through and checking out the vid as usual and just showing love! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
We were on both of each other's vids looking at them, lol lol lol That's nothing but love for sure man! Appreciate you as always and great coverage on yours too. It was so much to go over I am gonna break mine up into segments so it gets it right and just dues. I did have a 20 something min vid but trimmed it lol Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Man brother.....You always making me feel like I did what I was supposed to do, lol Sometimes i always question but I know whatever I miss you guys will pick it up, lol Saw yours earlier too! DOPE!!!!!! Blessings!
@@PULSEMusicGroup You got it bro. It's all about your take on things. You have a way to express thoroughly. I dig your method. You sound like you know what your talking about because you do. I be just clicking buttons and hope for the best lol.
@beatkultr Dude you play too much lol! All methods are needed for the community and it's been some times I had to go back after I seen yours and a couple of others and was like dang I missed that smh lol I love it though. Keeps me on my toes for sure. It's all love brother all day from here! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯💯💯
Bruh Im glad I literally just copped the s49 mk3 this weekend (thanks to your suggestion a few months back). Bought the Collector's Edition upgrade this morning and cant wait to get off work to try it out.
Now that's what's up. With the new upgrades and the new sounds and workflow possibilities with Komplete 15 the sound design is endless. Congrats on getting the S49. Super dope investment for sure especially with NI stuff. Glad the channel can help. That's what it's all about. Bad or good......hope it continues to help and to be inspirational and motivated to be creative! Can't wait to see and hear your results! I know it's gonna be awesome! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Beau this was one of the reasons why I didn't focus on doing a beat with it yet be sue there was so much in this update to cover that I'm breaking them down this week. Either live or another vid but it was a lot to cover for sure, lol Appreciate you as always showing your bro some love man! Just finished your a while ago. Really dope! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
James, thanks so much for the love and for coming through like you always do! Kontakt 8 is a beats and I love the updates. Gonna be making some vids with it for sure! Appreciate you as always! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Family........I kinda of wish it would have been earlier with the features in Kontakt 8 because some DAWs have these but they done have it like how NI is presenting it and the new Leap function Inside of Kontakt 8 where you can use your own loops is golden. Appreciate you as always family! Good seeing you and you know what the smile means lol lol lol
@@thebl8nlyblatantnetwork In a sense. If you lol at it form that aspect yes but Leap has a lot more functionality and transformation than the Arcade GUI in my opinion with this one. You can do some much with it. And this is one of the reasons why you are gonna asee alot of individual videos from me focusing on these specific ones. I just had to do this for an overall but they coming! 💯💯💯
I've bought the update from Kontakt 7 to Kontakt 8 around an hour ago. I'm just waiting for them to update Native-Access, so it can run on the full Version of Mac's Sequoia.
Trust and believe me family you are gonna love the new update and how the workflow is going how with Kontakt 8. Really glad they added these updates and the workflow now is a game changer for me. Greatly appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Really hope the walkthrough helped in anyway to make you inspired or motivated to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
PH!!!! What's good family. Was waiting to see your as well!!! Appreciate love brother and just coming through and supporting! Right back at you! Pray all is well! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Appreciate that family and welcome to the community! Thanks so much coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it inspires and motivates in anyway! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Very cool. I didn’t think there would be anything with the new tools that I would want to use, but that looks like something that could spark an idea or two. Nicely done, great video.
Hey Ken. Thanks for that. I wanted to open the viewer up to the possibility of not that it's just new but to the idea of creation and being in a creative mindset. That's one reason why I am super excited about this and I am actually doing the features in sections. Leap is next up tomorrow but I am always excited when I see you come through the page and be a blessing to it. If you do decide don't forget to support the channel and use the link! Pray all is well brother! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
I'm gonna be very honest that is one of the best things to do depending on your current purchases this year from NI or etc. But definitely a must get for Kontakt 8 upgrade. Appreciate you as always family for coming through and checking out the vid and just supporting! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@RealliedoeI'm trying to family. The channel had some haters on it recently from another creator but family like you and others makes those seem so small and petty! 💯💯💯
Greatly appreciate you coming through and supporting family. Thanks for checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it inspired and motivated you to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯
You gonna love it. The upgrade is never bad when you have a free version to play with right?!?? Let me know what you think of it once you really play with it! Would love to hear the feedback (as always) Always appreciate and love thr support you drop brother. It's priceless! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Does Kontakt 8 make sending notes to separate outputs easier? I loves me some DrumLab and Empire Breaks but I typically want to be able to spread kits across multiple tracks in my DAW to process hits separately. It's pretty easy in Battery but has always been a sticking point for me in Kontakt.
I have to be honest Adam and check back with you on that as I have to do some more experiments with that. I do know that you can output but I have seen some of them here on YT. But one way I know is the basic way of going into Kontakt selecting outputs and then routing them that way through to your DAW. But I will see if it's more than this based on your question. Kontakt 8 has a lot of updates on it lol Greatly appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup Thanks for the reply. Honestly I'll end up upgrading either way, but I find the output UI/UX to be a little clunky. Thanks for the overview; loving the Leap concept. Lots of room for creative knob tweaking without delving into something complicated like Reaktor!
@@AdamCooperWoodExactly! And I simply love Reaktor and wish it would have been focused on a little more but I get it's been over a decade now but that would have been a cool retro revamp. Definitely without question and if you have any other questions can get the info and share on the channel! Others are probably wondering the same! 💯💯💯
@@marc942Hey there! So an answer to this is the quest I have been getting recently. I just did a video on the channel that explains how to do a different way to route. And it adds and extends the sound for more than one note as well. Here so the vid and hope it helps in anyway: ruclips.net/video/MW1Yal-xuqw/видео.html
Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it helps in anyway and you are inspired and motivated to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Your videos are always dope bro. I know having content is a must nowadays, and I'm trying to get my shit together with that part. Do you edit your own videos? If so, what software do you use?
I always appreciate you and your input is always wanted and appreciated man! Keeps me focused!! So I do my own edits, yes. I record with OBS and a Sony a6600 camera. Then when I edit it's Adobe Premiere and some final touches through Cap Cut to just polish it off. When doing the content I go off now of just doing it and having fun. Sometimes you can get burnout from YT but others keep me inspired and comments like this motivated to keep pushing them out. So just do some content and push them. You have my support for sure! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Kontakt is definitely going after Arcade and Falcon users! Now, it is easier for musicians who do not know harmony with the New NI controller tools that help musicians who are not interested in learning music. (The New Trend) But, these are learning tools also 🎉🎉🎉🎉 that the artist has to put in work. Now, even trained Muscians can use these tools to help with advanced Chords. Now, these features are needed and expected by the modern-day computer tech and musicians. We are living in an era where incredibly innovative and emotional music can be created automatically. Technology is saying music is a language that is accessible to anyone regardless of your knowledge or Musicianship. We, the User, either suggest or complain about what we want. Genuinely, they go make it happen sooner or later!
This is a great well thought out point family. And I agree with it wholeheartedly! I think it will all depend on the creative and how they can either revolutionize the producer and change the course or creating or just make it an easy way for people to just not be creative and bang something out in like 5 min. It's like a 50/50 depending on what side of the spectrum you look at it from. But I do know that either way it helps and grows the producer and for me that's a plus in my book. Always love the dialogue fam. Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid! Pray all is well! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 ,💯
That's super dope to know that! Now you have me super excited to continue to mess around and maybe create an old classic, lol. Greatly appreciate you coming through and stopping by to drop that 💎 on me! Really hope you like the channel and got inspiration and motivation to be creative! Blessings 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Man, it's nothing for real.......just a bunch of years of experience with NI, and a few NI toys, lol The workflow took a while to where I wanted to get it but I'm happy with it now. Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Really hope it inspires and motivates you to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯
I can see that. I will say though that this has a lot more features I think that is better for Kontakt 8 users and etc. But for sure this is gonna be a game changer for producers using NI stuff. Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Hope you were inspired and motivated by the channel! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Lol I don't know family but that would be awesome to see. They usually don't do the new ones the same year but I don't want to speak and they do something different, lol But we will see for Black Friday sale this year! 💯💯💯
Hey family. Sorry to hear that you have had issues with NI. Curious at to know what it was specifically that you had problems with? Were you using Windows or MAC? How was your computer speed, etc. It weied because I never experienced an issues per se just load times of some of the instruments maybe but definitely would love to know. Appreciate you coming through and sharing and for checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it inspired and motivated you to be creative in any way! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup I have used Komplete for 13 years and damn near had to become an admin to deal with all the bugs in the software. I used Macs and PCs. I believe NI stuff runs better on PC because it is resource hungry and Apple under specs all but its most expensive computers. Also, NI is horribly slow in updating software for MacOS upgrades. At the core of it, NI has a bundle of very old products that should have been consistently refreshed over the years. Roland is a good example of how to do this. Roland upgrades its platform every 5-10 years and then migrates all its hardware and software into that ecosystem. NI never updates its core products in a meaningful way and instead makes sporadic changes that create all kinds of weird bugs that they then waste time fixing. I have never had a six month period without one issue or another. Often the GUI in Kontakt or KK shows up blank or white for some reason. This is at least an 8 year old bug that has never been fully resolved by NI. Also, I purchased their Kontrol MK3 keyboard thinking it would at least have the same functionality as my MK2 only to find out it was missing many features and had an almost unusable character limit on mapped parameter labels (way worse than MK2). I cannot do basic parameter mapping in Kontakt despite NI selling the keyboard with Kontakt integration as a key feature. You can only access preset mappings, which means it’s pretty useless relative to KK where you can change whatever you like. I did not have midi template functionality until a recent update (1 year post purchase) and even now cannot change the midi channel for a particular template globally (has to be done one parameter at a time). I have just had enough of NI. Roland and Akai have built better ecosystems. Roland is noteworthy because the Roland Cloud really is what I always wanted Komplete to be - a very simple way to integrate hardware and software. I can buy any Roland device and know that I can work on device or on the computer without worrying about repeated and prolonged downtime. I can say the same about Akai, although the integration for them is not quite as robust as Roland. NI really seems to me to be for people who just want to scroll presets on sample libraries other artists have created and are maybe newer users that don’t have need for advanced use cases.
Man, that's a super strong word right there. But I totally understand. What is it special that you hate. I would love to hear the input. Thanks so much for coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup I hate that it's bloatware with features for kids that are simply there to justify endless versions. I also hate that 'New Instrument" is gone from the menu.
So PULSE Family! Let's be honest! What is your first initial take on Kontakt 8? Is it a great upgrade to your game or not?!??
Its's awesome ! Im upgrading for sure!
@@SpyderBlackOfficialThats what's up brother. You are gonna love it for sure. Don't forget to support and hit the link when you do! Can't wait to hear what you create with it! Thanks so much for coming through and checking out the vid as usual and just showing love! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
You know I'm here for it....bro this was the upgrade that NI needed!! Dope vid!!
We were on both of each other's vids looking at them, lol lol lol That's nothing but love for sure man! Appreciate you as always and great coverage on yours too. It was so much to go over I am gonna break mine up into segments so it gets it right and just dues. I did have a 20 something min vid but trimmed it lol Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
bro this video ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Man brother.....You always making me feel like I did what I was supposed to do, lol Sometimes i always question but I know whatever I miss you guys will pick it up, lol Saw yours earlier too! DOPE!!!!!! Blessings!
@@PULSEMusicGroup You got it bro. It's all about your take on things. You have a way to express thoroughly. I dig your method. You sound like you know what your talking about because you do. I be just clicking buttons and hope for the best lol.
@beatkultr Dude you play too much lol! All methods are needed for the community and it's been some times I had to go back after I seen yours and a couple of others and was like dang I missed that smh lol I love it though. Keeps me on my toes for sure. It's all love brother all day from here! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯💯💯
Bruh Im glad I literally just copped the s49 mk3 this weekend (thanks to your suggestion a few months back). Bought the Collector's Edition upgrade this morning and cant wait to get off work to try it out.
Now that's what's up. With the new upgrades and the new sounds and workflow possibilities with Komplete 15 the sound design is endless. Congrats on getting the S49. Super dope investment for sure especially with NI stuff. Glad the channel can help. That's what it's all about. Bad or good......hope it continues to help and to be inspirational and motivated to be creative! Can't wait to see and hear your results! I know it's gonna be awesome! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Ah! I forgot to feature the Combined option in my video. I’ll just put a link to your vid for that part. 😂
Dope as always, my dude.
Beau this was one of the reasons why I didn't focus on doing a beat with it yet be sue there was so much in this update to cover that I'm breaking them down this week. Either live or another vid but it was a lot to cover for sure, lol Appreciate you as always showing your bro some love man! Just finished your a while ago. Really dope! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Love it,, real dope
James, thanks so much for the love and for coming through like you always do! Kontakt 8 is a beats and I love the updates. Gonna be making some vids with it for sure! Appreciate you as always! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Pluse with that smile 😂😂😂 Kontakt 8 definitely has to be good lol 🫡
Family........I kinda of wish it would have been earlier with the features in Kontakt 8 because some DAWs have these but they done have it like how NI is presenting it and the new Leap function Inside of Kontakt 8 where you can use your own loops is golden. Appreciate you as always family! Good seeing you and you know what the smile means lol lol lol
@@PULSEMusicGroup no problem one question leap kind of like arcade kit maker ?
@@thebl8nlyblatantnetwork In a sense. If you lol at it form that aspect yes but Leap has a lot more functionality and transformation than the Arcade GUI in my opinion with this one. You can do some much with it. And this is one of the reasons why you are gonna asee alot of individual videos from me focusing on these specific ones. I just had to do this for an overall but they coming! 💯💯💯
I've bought the update from Kontakt 7 to Kontakt 8 around an hour ago. I'm just waiting for them to update Native-Access, so it can run on the full Version of Mac's Sequoia.
Trust and believe me family you are gonna love the new update and how the workflow is going how with Kontakt 8. Really glad they added these updates and the workflow now is a game changer for me. Greatly appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Really hope the walkthrough helped in anyway to make you inspired or motivated to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Great review as always 🙌🏽
PH!!!! What's good family. Was waiting to see your as well!!! Appreciate love brother and just coming through and supporting! Right back at you! Pray all is well! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
I subbed.
Appreciate that family and welcome to the community! Thanks so much coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it inspires and motivates in anyway! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Very cool. I didn’t think there would be anything with the new tools that I would want to use, but that looks like something that could spark an idea or two. Nicely done, great video.
Hey Ken. Thanks for that. I wanted to open the viewer up to the possibility of not that it's just new but to the idea of creation and being in a creative mindset. That's one reason why I am super excited about this and I am actually doing the features in sections. Leap is next up tomorrow but I am always excited when I see you come through the page and be a blessing to it. If you do decide don't forget to support the channel and use the link! Pray all is well brother! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
I’m not even gonna upgrade my Komplete yet, I’m just gonna upgrade to Kontakt 8
I'm gonna be very honest that is one of the best things to do depending on your current purchases this year from NI or etc. But definitely a must get for Kontakt 8 upgrade. Appreciate you as always family for coming through and checking out the vid and just supporting! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup Always Pulse! Keep up the good work bro
@@RealliedoeI'm trying to family. The channel had some haters on it recently from another creator but family like you and others makes those seem so small and petty! 💯💯💯
I was wondering if I purchase the full version of kontakt 8 does that include the guitar vsts?
Like the picked guitar, strummed guitar etc?
Thank you!
Greatly appreciate you coming through and supporting family. Thanks for checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it inspired and motivated you to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯
Top-tier review as always. I'll have to review it once I have the funds. Lol! I will try out the free version to get a taste of what it do.
You gonna love it. The upgrade is never bad when you have a free version to play with right?!?? Let me know what you think of it once you really play with it! Would love to hear the feedback (as always) Always appreciate and love thr support you drop brother. It's priceless! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup no doubt! I will let you know
Does Kontakt 8 make sending notes to separate outputs easier? I loves me some DrumLab and Empire Breaks but I typically want to be able to spread kits across multiple tracks in my DAW to process hits separately. It's pretty easy in Battery but has always been a sticking point for me in Kontakt.
I have to be honest Adam and check back with you on that as I have to do some more experiments with that. I do know that you can output but I have seen some of them here on YT. But one way I know is the basic way of going into Kontakt selecting outputs and then routing them that way through to your DAW. But I will see if it's more than this based on your question. Kontakt 8 has a lot of updates on it lol Greatly appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup Thanks for the reply. Honestly I'll end up upgrading either way, but I find the output UI/UX to be a little clunky. Thanks for the overview; loving the Leap concept. Lots of room for creative knob tweaking without delving into something complicated like Reaktor!
@@AdamCooperWoodExactly! And I simply love Reaktor and wish it would have been focused on a little more but I get it's been over a decade now but that would have been a cool retro revamp. Definitely without question and if you have any other questions can get the info and share on the channel! Others are probably wondering the same! 💯💯💯
Same here, I can't figure out how to route the individual sounds in Leap to the output section in Kontact
@@marc942Hey there! So an answer to this is the quest I have been getting recently. I just did a video on the channel that explains how to do a different way to route. And it adds and extends the sound for more than one note as well. Here so the vid and hope it helps in anyway: ruclips.net/video/MW1Yal-xuqw/видео.html
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Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it helps in anyway and you are inspired and motivated to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Your videos are always dope bro. I know having content is a must nowadays, and I'm trying to get my shit together with that part. Do you edit your own videos? If so, what software do you use?
I always appreciate you and your input is always wanted and appreciated man! Keeps me focused!! So I do my own edits, yes. I record with OBS and a Sony a6600 camera. Then when I edit it's Adobe Premiere and some final touches through Cap Cut to just polish it off. When doing the content I go off now of just doing it and having fun. Sometimes you can get burnout from YT but others keep me inspired and comments like this motivated to keep pushing them out. So just do some content and push them. You have my support for sure! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
If you need me to do a tutorial on it one day I could also do one for you to help out. 💯💯💯
Kontakt is definitely going after Arcade and Falcon users! Now, it is easier for musicians who do not know harmony with the New NI controller tools that help musicians who are not interested in learning music. (The New Trend) But, these are learning tools also 🎉🎉🎉🎉 that the artist has to put in work. Now, even trained Muscians can use these tools to help with advanced Chords. Now, these features are needed and expected by the modern-day computer tech and musicians. We are living in an era where incredibly innovative and emotional music can be created automatically. Technology is saying music is a language that is accessible to anyone regardless of your knowledge or Musicianship. We, the User, either suggest or complain about what we want. Genuinely, they go make it happen sooner or later!
This is a great well thought out point family. And I agree with it wholeheartedly! I think it will all depend on the creative and how they can either revolutionize the producer and change the course or creating or just make it an easy way for people to just not be creative and bang something out in like 5 min. It's like a 50/50 depending on what side of the spectrum you look at it from. But I do know that either way it helps and grows the producer and for me that's a plus in my book. Always love the dialogue fam. Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid! Pray all is well! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 ,💯
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Marcus back in the building! What's good family!? Appreciate you as always man! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup appreciate you brother. Always. 💜
You played a Police song in the 7ths .."I'll be wrapped around your finger "
That's super dope to know that! Now you have me super excited to continue to mess around and maybe create an old classic, lol. Greatly appreciate you coming through and stopping by to drop that 💎 on me! Really hope you like the channel and got inspiration and motivation to be creative! Blessings 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup whatever it takes to get inspired ! ✨️ enjoy!
I need the creador Workflow
Man, it's nothing for real.......just a bunch of years of experience with NI, and a few NI toys, lol The workflow took a while to where I wanted to get it but I'm happy with it now. Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Really hope it inspires and motivates you to be creative! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯
Leap is about the same as Arcade
I can see that. I will say though that this has a lot more features I think that is better for Kontakt 8 users and etc. But for sure this is gonna be a game changer for producers using NI stuff. Appreciate you coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Hope you were inspired and motivated by the channel! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
Wait until the Christmas sale and get the update for $49
Lol I don't know family but that would be awesome to see. They usually don't do the new ones the same year but I don't want to speak and they do something different, lol But we will see for Black Friday sale this year! 💯💯💯
Kontakt and Komplete are just so all over the place I lost the plot a long time ago. Have migrated to simpler software from Roland with way less bugs.
Hey family. Sorry to hear that you have had issues with NI. Curious at to know what it was specifically that you had problems with? Were you using Windows or MAC? How was your computer speed, etc. It weied because I never experienced an issues per se just load times of some of the instruments maybe but definitely would love to know. Appreciate you coming through and sharing and for checking out the vid and the channel! Hope it inspired and motivated you to be creative in any way! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup I have used Komplete for 13 years and damn near had to become an admin to deal with all the bugs in the software. I used Macs and PCs. I believe NI stuff runs better on PC because it is resource hungry and Apple under specs all but its most expensive computers. Also, NI is horribly slow in updating software for MacOS upgrades.
At the core of it, NI has a bundle of very old products that should have been consistently refreshed over the years. Roland is a good example of how to do this. Roland upgrades its platform every 5-10 years and then migrates all its hardware and software into that ecosystem. NI never updates its core products in a meaningful way and instead makes sporadic changes that create all kinds of weird bugs that they then waste time fixing. I have never had a six month period without one issue or another. Often the GUI in Kontakt or KK shows up blank or white for some reason. This is at least an 8 year old bug that has never been fully resolved by NI.
Also, I purchased their Kontrol MK3 keyboard thinking it would at least have the same functionality as my MK2 only to find out it was missing many features and had an almost unusable character limit on mapped parameter labels (way worse than MK2). I cannot do basic parameter mapping in Kontakt despite NI selling the keyboard with Kontakt integration as a key feature. You can only access preset mappings, which means it’s pretty useless relative to KK where you can change whatever you like. I did not have midi template functionality until a recent update (1 year post purchase) and even now cannot change the midi channel for a particular template globally (has to be done one parameter at a time).
I have just had enough of NI. Roland and Akai have built better ecosystems. Roland is noteworthy because the Roland Cloud really is what I always wanted Komplete to be - a very simple way to integrate hardware and software. I can buy any Roland device and know that I can work on device or on the computer without worrying about repeated and prolonged downtime. I can say the same about Akai, although the integration for them is not quite as robust as Roland.
NI really seems to me to be for people who just want to scroll presets on sample libraries other artists have created and are maybe newer users that don’t have need for advanced use cases.
I HATE Kontakt 8 with a passion that burns hot.
Man, that's a super strong word right there. But I totally understand. What is it special that you hate. I would love to hear the input. Thanks so much for coming through and checking out the vid and the channel! Blessings! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯
@@PULSEMusicGroup I hate that it's bloatware with features for kids that are simply there to justify endless versions. I also hate that 'New Instrument" is gone from the menu.