Reply To: Native Instruments Insolvency and Updates

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On anxiousmofo said

The upcoming Koda Sampler looks like it could be a major competitor to Kontakt with fantastically awful timing for NI and any assumed ongoing market dominance by Kontakt and related financial maneuvering.  I was quite impressed by the Koda NAMM presentation videos, at least.

@anxiousmofo, feel free to create a thread about it. In fact, I’d personally very much enjoy that. I’m interested.

As you can easily see, I’m a huge fan of Kontakt, but I would LOVE to see a great competitor that can do everything Kontakt can do and more. I mean, everyone here is aware that I’ve advised 8Dio regarding their SoundPaint division. I’ve had many conversations with sample and plugin instrument developers over the years (decades at this point), and the reasons for Kontakt’s dominance, beyond its user base size, are greatly due to it being an excellent and highly developed sampler that allows for complex scripting in what I’m told (because I’m not a developer, of course, I’m subject to taking the advice of experts) in a more efficient manner than competitors like UVI (as UVI has often been the big alternative and I’ve discussed this with developers who’ve switched to UVI, like AcousticSamples).

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