And don’t forget Ben Folds.

Too many people whose songs I don’t know and a lot of people I disagree with.  But whether you agree or disagree with the songwriting choices, sometimes their choices of representative songs didn’t make the case.

They listed OutKast as a songwriter but their 5 best don’t include “Roses” or “Hey Ya”?

Mariah Carey – They listed “Fantasy”, which…Read More

Ohhh.  I am not so pleased.  In Music has orphaned a LOT of hardware over the years. and I own a NI S61 Mk3.  Wait and see I guess.  On the plus side, I really like my Akai MPC and Headrush hardware that is excellent mainly because of integrated software support, but I have also owned M-Audio and Alesis hardware that they promised future sof…Read More

I’d put the probability of a Summer of Sound sale at at least 75%.

I’d put the probability of Komplete being included at 0%.

The last time Komplete had a release outside of September/October was in 2013 and I recall that Komplete was not part of that sale.

There’s no way they are going to announce a half off sale one or two months after…Read More

Congrats on the hub.

And I’m glad the episode is over… for now? I might actually buy a Kontakt instrument again!

On May 8, 2026 at 11:07 am GoncaloL said
Hope you’re right 😉

Me too! 🙂

Hope you’re right 😉

On May 8, 2026 at 3:04 am Xandre said
I wonder if we’ll be seeing the 50% off on Komplete anymore, now that they’re clearly on a yearly schedule now as per the new naming convention.

Xandre
Chaos Scatterbrain with a plethora of 4 bar loop projects, and barely any songs

I just made a comment about that in another thread. My instincts tell me…Read More

On May 8, 2026 at 10:04 am GoncaloL said
I don’t know how they would pull that off timeline-wise with a yearly revision, and they are clearly changing things (hence the $100 reduction in upgrade pricing at launch)

Because they realize that the changes and uncertainty slow consumers from buying. It’s much harder to get people to buy during the i…Read More

I don’t know how they would pull that off timeline-wise with a yearly revision, and they are clearly changing things (hence the $100 reduction in upgrade pricing at launch)

Related thought, developers who decided to create an alternative sampler banking on Kontakt going under surely chose unwisely. The reason it was as close to a sure thing as it could be that Kontakt would survive was (1) the product is the crown jewel of NI, (2) NI’s debt wasn’t a problem of the product lines, it was due to the wild acquisitions…Read More

On May 8, 2026 at 8:40 am GoncaloL said
I would say that the Summer of Sound sale is gone for good, based on the fact that changing the name to Komplete 26 implies that it will now be updated annually (leaving no time for 50% deep discounts), and that they lowered the upgrade price by $100.

Maybe there will still be some kind of discount on…

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Well, now that inMusic has acquired all of NI, it’s now incredibly safer to buy Komplete, which, as I stated before, is a product I use and love.

As I’ve shared my background, which includes serving as a Fortune 500 business strategist, I thought this is the perfect story for me to add some value to the community and wrote a blog post that breaks…Read More