My new year wishes for NI

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  • LostInFoundation
    LostInFoundation Member Posts: 4,551 Expert
    edited January 7

    With “neutral” I meant it is not a games developer company itself.

    It is a store that doesn’t mind too much if they sell A or B: they earn money in any case.

    More than that, the videogames industry is a different case: if today you buy FPS A, probably tomorrow you will buy FPS B anyway. And then C and D. You always need a new game to play.

    While if you buy piano A maybe it will suffice you and you will continue playing it instead of buying B, C and D (I know…this is not always the case…but this has more to do with our consumerism than the need for a new piano to play…)

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 1,021 Guru

    I agree with the main point somebody made about having the NI users be the evangelists for NKS, etcetera etcetera.

    I also agree that NI probably over-relied on metrics as the "all seeing" oracle that told the devs what was most important to the end-users. You still need to TALK WITH the users!

    As I've said many times before, any vendor, whether it's a software house, a restaurant, or a car repair place, you HAVE TO HAVE A WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE. And an ability to do so regularly and actively.

    Matthew does great, as do the others who regularly appear here. So I have to think that the decision (and maybe the problems) happens above them.

  • LostInFoundation
    LostInFoundation Member Posts: 4,551 Expert
    edited January 7

    I only partially agree with that.

    Surely the main decisions are taken above (specially regarding the strengths they can put into something)

    But Matthew has been more than clear that the (unlucky) decisions taken on Komplete Kontrol were his own and he stood by those, even when users started to show some were not so welcome.

    And also: I don’t know how much people here notice all these interactions happen mainly when it’s time to sell something…to then disappear (or at least decrease drastically)

    Which is more than normal…but surely show more interest in selling you something than really knowing what users think/want…

    And that is one of the things that puzzles me the most: if I was somebody producing something and willing to sell it, I would REALLY know what the people that eventually will buy my stuffs want. And, when possible, I would give them those, so I would sell more.

    It’s the difference between BEFORE and AFTER: you are interested in users opinions? You ask BEFORE (and then make your moves accordingly). You want to sell what you already worked on? You try to convince of your moves AFTER.


    That said, all of what I wrote is an exaggeration: I do appreciate people from NI being present a lot more than before and willing to take the risk to be criticized as I’m doing. But I still think that this could be improved, i.e. by moving BEFORE instead of AFTER. And by participating in discussions like this one so that next time you have to choose your moves you’ll know better what the users want (that I’m sure was the intention of Kymeia starting this thread). It would really be more useful than interacting in other discussions just to justify your choices or answer to critics about what is not working (which is, in any case, admirable)

  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,142 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/202350#Comment_202350

    For sure it was not the length.

    Maybe the style was considered as "too close to A.I." (false alarm)?

    But most probably because of a word (or some words). There are such kind of auto-alarms in the system, although it is impossible for me to know which one it was (which word triggered it).

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 1,021 Guru
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/202461#Comment_202461

    Because of how AI's "inputs" (aka learning, aka iterating on prior work products) function, I expect that we will ALL eventually be accused of being AI. And AI won't always be able to tell the difference between you and me and another AI.

    And some day after that, we might not be able to tell the difference between each other and AI. I'm hearing right now about the possibility of having a meeting with somebody who looks, acts, and speaks like a person, but who is actually an AI "agent". And I'm thinking to myself, "I already get sales solicitation calls from AI entities. In a way, I'm already having meetings with AI!"

    But AI does have a ceiling that it currently can't surpass. Kind of like how Moore's Law has its limits below a certain molecular size for transistors and pathways. At least today.

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 1,021 Guru
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/202397#Comment_202397

    "…Matthew has been more than clear that the (unlucky) decisions taken on Komplete Kontrol were his own and he stood by those, even when users started to show some were not so welcome."

    I remember a couple times where he has done that.

    So then we need to be better at convincing him to include us more in the pre-decision decisions. l don't know if we'll be able to get a guest key to the executive washroom, but one can hope.

  • LostInFoundation
    LostInFoundation Member Posts: 4,551 Expert

    The problem is i would give a guest key to every single NI user ☺️

  • LostInFoundation
    LostInFoundation Member Posts: 4,551 Expert
    edited January 7

    Because of how AI's "inputs" (aka learning, aka iterating on prior work products) function, I expect that we will ALL eventually be accused of being AI. And AI won't always be able to tell the difference between you and me and another AI.


    The solution is easy: fill your text with errors, so no one will think it’s AI generated.

    That’s exactly why I put so many grammar mistakes (or…mistacs) 😂

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