The new mk3 models and nks 2.0 are available since almost a year… Wouldn't it be wise to focus development completely on very soon releasing an open source version of the NKS 2.0 implementation of Kontakt 7?
Then NI would sooner benefit from the efforts of other developers… What is the status of this project? I also wonder if a daw actually would be a better place to implement that, not each single plugin.
It would be very nice, if one day we could get rid of the NI Kontrol VST wrapper, and have the whole thing integrated into the daws. But this will only happen, if you completely open source it.
The whole concept is indeed very inspiring to use, and makes working with vsts a lot more enjoyable. But I would like to outline some disadvantages of the current concept:
- Requiring separate nks presets. In an ideal concept, the system would reuse the plugins presets, or at least auto convert those.
- The whole VST wrapper idea. Has a lot of disadvantages, leads to additional problems, restrictions and debbuging work
- No clap support, due to VST3 support. So no very modern features like per-voice-modulation via clap.
So as I see it (also being a dev), the best way would be:
- Open source NKS 2.1 standard (i.e. Kontakt7 implementation)
- Make it integratable for DAW vendors
- Make it attractive for DAW vendors
- Getting rid of the VST3 wrapper
- Getting rid of NKS presets (if not required anymore), adding auto sync to NKS 2.1
What do you think about it? Are you working on such an open source implementation? Thanks for any kind of status or insight. 😀