Introducing Kontakt 8 | Native Instruments

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  1. Pranchi

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    Good news.!!

    With lots of new updates.

     
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    Pranchi, Sep 23, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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    Those two videos dont actually tell any why they should update from Kontakt7 to Kontakt8.
     
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    Unfortunately I agree. But like, 100%. WTF are they trying to sell in that video?

    Most new features are literally already existing scripts with a GUI, others are similar but like stolen from a MIDI effect like Scaler. All MIDI to MIDI utils.

    And the rest are new-browser search improvements.

    You can see in the comments people are not exactly happy.
     
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    That's because people want a massive update. Rather than a couple of incremental add ons.
     
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    So true. A piece of software that's as old as Kontakt can't really receive massive updates unless they redo the whole shebang. And recreating an entire platform would be suicidal.

    A couple of optimizations (workflow and otherwise) will do me fine, so I'm not complaining. If this thing works out well, I might even upgrade Komplete now instead of waiting for the next release.
     
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    Lua as an option for scripting instruments - total game changer. There's HISE, but HISE doesn't have the hundreds of effects that Kontakt has.

    Hobbyist/entry level programmers, game developers, artists working on assets, so many more potential developers for Kontakt with Lua...

    KSP is truly one of the shittest, most crippled DSLs out there. Not even the Sublime extension that adds a "standard library" to KSP makes it any more bearable.
     
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    I wonder why didn't they use Lua in the first place instead of KSP. That being said I think KSP was introduced as early as Kontakt 2.
     
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    Is the tiny antz editor reworked finally? last time i tried to create a piano library in Kontakt7, i was facing super tiny buttons and super small everything.

    (The editor isnt to important for selling all those libraries, which NI only focus on.)
     
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    I'm not too sure, even though it's a fairly old language I don't think it escaped the academia when Kontakt came out with scripting. I've got the standard basic moan about Lua, of course (yes, you all know what it is), kinda like why people hate Python because of that one thing.

    But Lua with proper control bindings and I would be over the moon, I'd use it over anything for mangling live MIDI data. It would absolutely beat the pants off Max and Reaktor for that kind of thing.

    I wonder how Halion is these days...
     
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