Kontakt 7.7 - please remove ads

oobe79

Unbelievable. And they don't even mention it in the Release notes!

frankE

The new advertising "feature" in both Kontakt and NA is distracting, disrespectful and annoying. I paid for NI software and don't appreciate being bombarded with ads while I'm trying to work. You do enough advertising already in other ways, and this new approach is beyond acceptable. Please remove the ads!

steevm

Someone needs to tell the VC investors that their misguided meddling is tanking the value of their investment and losing the goodwill of long term customers. Even they don't want that.

This is just a symptom of a much deeper malaise.

etudes

+1. Not the first time NI made cheap moves to milk as much money as humanly possible from their users. Like how for 5 years they refused to add one of the most requested, baby simple Komplete Kontrol keyboard features (an option to turn off the light guide), only adding it to their brand new MkIII keyboards, to give you another reason to spend another $900. Which I won't, because I'm tired of NI.

MaartenP

+1 You can't do that. Full Kontakt is not shareware or freeware.

AbbateEntertainment

Wow! Not just Kontakt, but also in Native Access. Ugh! Where has the original NI gone?!!

So many questionable decisions being made in 2023.

NI ... Please don't forget about all of us that got you to where you are today.

David NI

Please remove the new ads from Kontakt. That sort of stuff belongs in Native Access.

McClaneonfire

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/106377#Comment_106377

Yes, for Native Access - palease not in any instrument.

Jojo123

Agree with all the posts here. COME ON NI this is hideous. NO one likes ads shoved down their throats. As has been said numerous times already, a full version paid for product should not be an eye assault AND taking up precious real estate. . PLEASE REMOVE.

Bloozenator

One benefit of the ads is that I will save money because I will not purchase anything using Kontakt as long as the ads remain in the paid for full Kontakt. Everyone, bombard the top developers that you will not purchase their products as long as there are ads in full Kontakt, that might be the only way NI listens.

dwbertoni

Given the fact that I cannot even use my S61 mk3 because of a flawed hardware connection/recognition regime (seriously?!?!?), I have yet to feast my eyes on this abomination. Ads in paid software? Seriously?

Emmanuel Rousseau

Agreed ! Put all the ads you want in your free products, but not in Kontakt full, it is a paid software. Please reconsider this, NI.

outlieraud

Another vote to kill this feature. Put ads in free products and give the full versions the ability to disable them.

This is also a stupid longterm plan. Kontakt's only as good as the developers that make it a diverse platform. Sample developers have already begun the trend of moving away from NI, this is only going to speed that process up. (Which at this point might actually be the best thing that can happen).

catch-22

+1

Remove this asap. It makes NI looks like cheap kiddie toys. I paid for my software and don't want that intrusive ad stuff forced on me.

How about fixing bugs and modernizing older plugins instead? While we are at it, stop killing older products.

EBelvin

I'll add my voice to this. The ads caught me off guard after updating, and I don't want to be thinking about purchase decisions while I'm trying to get work done. It 100% interrupted my flow of thought. Huge fan of Kontakt and NI, and I trust they will reverse this one.