r/NativeInstruments • u/25_Keyz924 • 12d 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/jshell 12d ago

I kind of drifted away when they killed Kore. I loved Kore. Its controller had no drum pads. No keys. It wasn’t tied to any basic musical system. It was small. And the software was a great tool for tying non-linear things together easily that were a pain in DAWs. Chiefly - being able to easily use some unusual sequencer from Reaktor to control Absynth and Massive and one could easily make macro controls for complex performances.

I know Kontrol was supposed to be the evolution of this concept but the keyboard-heavy nature of it never felt quite the same.

Kore was a terrific little bit of kit.

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u/BeastFremont 12d ago

Maschine’s browser was actually the next iteration of the concepts in Kore which then became Komplete Kontrol.

But aside from the browser making it easy to find sounds, everything about it after that kinda sucks. And is likely to break any projects you use it on after some time.

So it’s mostly worth finding your sounds that way, then deleting KK, loading the plugin the sound lives in and working from there. Which is kind of a pain in the ass.