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Re: Please make all UIs scalable
Both Open Key and Musical Key
It would be nice to se both Both Open Key and Musical Key at the same time....
Here is a picture example...
The NI Staff Playlist - Summer 22 🌴💦
Get to hear what's playing in the NI office!
We invited our staff to contribute with their favorite 'heatwave-appropriate' bangers for our 2022 Summer playlist.
All time classics, new gems, dusty oldschool tunes, weird breaks and dreamy ambients... Expect to find an eclectic selection to set your mood on the proper vibration 🌞
Crank up the volume and listen to it here:
Share YOUR Summer mood soundtrack in the comments or tell us your fav pick from the playlist 👇
Nico_NI
A positive review of Maschine Plus
Although I had a folder-question and nobody replied yet, I continued without help, trying to find out what works best for using my own 'sounds'. Although my thumb-drive wasn't showing any folders (it simply showed all sounds in alphabetical order), my SD-card was a better way to organise my sounds (User Content).
Connecting the Maschine+ in storage mode allowed me to make a folder structure. Some folders didn't show up. The content (AIF) in these folders I dropped in Adobe Media Encoder, exporting all sounds as new AIF's. I deleted the old files, and voila, after a 'rescan' in Maschine all my sounds (and invisible folders) are now available in Maschine+.
I read so many negative comments about Maschine+, that I felt the need to write something positive . I've been working with Maschine+ now for 7 days, allowing me to dive deep into all possibilities. I think it's amazing! All my own sounds pre-listen without hick-ups, Maschine is running smooth. I also connected my Novation Bass Station 2, receiving midi from Maschine and sending it's audio back into Maschine. It all works flawless, I'm really impressed!
It's amazing to have all these options available to you without the use of a computer. I'm considering buying a powerbank, simply because I would like to take this device everywhere! The idea of making music without a computer screen is something I always wanted. I changed my setup so many times, buying and selling gear, simply to find out that it's too complicated for me, spending more time on technical problems than creating music. When I wanted to continue a project I worked on the previous day, I first needed to 'activate' all other gear and select all setting on each device. This is so annoying if you're used to produce 'in the box'.
Maschine+ has made it possible for me to leave the computer screen behind and be unlimited creative wherever I want. When I load a project/song it's exactly how I left it, no need to pick presets on other devices or route audio signals through a mixer in order to hear everything.
So, yes, I'm very happy with Maschine+ !
Gerhard
Re: Status on m1/m2 update?
Yes, NI has unique and amazing products, that’s why we are all using them.
But NI also has huge technological debt and ancient codebase and frameworks. So who should we blame for years of lack of HiDPI and VST3 for PC, also Apple?
The sad truth is that NI can’t deal with ANY technological change on ANY platform in a timely fashion.
I get that you are anti-Apple, many PC users are. But a bit of objectivity wouldn’t really hurt…
Re: Please make all UIs scalable
Why would an admin ask this, effectively invalidating the user pain? Your job is to listen to users and then acknowledge that their experience is felt.
It's now 2022. Windows added DPI scaling support with Windows XP in 2001, and MacBooks added Retina support in 2012. You've had 21 years to make it work on Windows, and 10 years on MacOS. Any normal human being today would assume that any software they buy will work fine on a 2k, 4k, and 5k display, will be of a readable text pitch, and will adapt to their preferred scaling if they have accessibility needs. The only concern a reasonable consumer would have, would be if they had a 1k display -- maybe it won't fit? But I think the last laptop with a 1366x768 display sold out from Walmart before the pandemic began, so if any resolution is optional, that one seems like it should be it.
Here's a crazy idea: NI is a European company, right? And Europe has accessibility standards for software, right? I wonder if we could all just file accessibility complaints in the European courts until they finally spend the time needed to make it good? What other option do we have?
It's not like we're not paying for support -- every couple of years, there's another Komplete upgrade fee, which should give us some ability to move with the times, no?
Re: Please make all UIs scalable
I actually SCREAM in pain when I have to scroll through hundreds of presets in the 3-line display of Komplete Kontrol. This app has the wrong name, it should be "Totally Inkomplete Kontrol" because of its lack of visibility in this user interface. All I want is to see the available presets but I cannot because the scrolling within hundreds of entries is not even possible within 3 lines. They shoot up and down and it requires micro movements with the mouse in order to find what I'm looking for - movements that aren't even possible!
Coucho
Track Linking
I wish each track had its own playlist. I imagine a button that links two playing tracks - and then each track is added to the other's playlist. These playlists would form a mix matrix of tried and true mixes that you've personally done and don't ever want to forget.
Aquarobotics
Request font size? 17-23 Please.
As another user ask the question (Who is using 8 or 46?). and requested size for 17 - 23
Just doing as instructed to get upvote for more font size in this range.
Thank you.
Demus
Re: Hardware and software need to be ported into iPadOS
As soon as NI has Maschine running on M1 natively they could bring it to iPad as an alternative for people with big laptops or underpowered Maschine Plusses.
