NAMM 2025: Introducing the NKS Hardware Partner Program

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  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,394 mod

    @Matthew_NI

    Appear to me as if I were right on the money .

    Does this mean that we could possibly see keyboards made by other brands that will offer full "Direct Connection" and "NKS compatibility" to a degree where they will offer more or less the same experience as the S-Series MK3 keyboards does with respect to e.g. the use of Komplete Kontrol and kontakt 7/8 ? To me it appears as if N.I. are going to license all the technology to give other manufactures the ability to make sort of 'clones' of the S-Series keyboards ?

  • Matthew_NI
    Matthew_NI Product Team Posts: 1,623 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/205695#Comment_205695

    It is unlikely that anything will offer quite the same experience as Kontrol S MK3.

    However, think of it like this…

    NKS is a range of capabilities split between version numbers.

    NKS as a whole is now open to 3rd party hardware manufacturers.

    How many of those capabilities they implement will depend on what each hardware is capable of supporting, and how much work they're willing to invest.

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,394 mod
    edited January 22
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/205697#Comment_205697

    It is unlikely that anything will offer quite the same experience as Kontrol S MK3.

    How many of those capabilities they implement will depend on what each hardware is capable of supporting, and how much work they're willing to invest.

    Thanks Matthew_NI 😀

    I guess that the answer could also be that we could see something that will offer more or less the same experience as Kontrol S MK3 , provided that they're willing to invest enough in making the hardware and acquiring the licenses 😁

    (of course at the moment then more or less no hardware have the hardware capability)

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,394 mod
    edited January 22
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/205699#Comment_205699

    Could you please stop tagging a guy who isn’t posting from months? It’s getting ridiculous… (does he even exist?)

    As I have told you in previous discussion then I do not share things from private meeting (or semi-private Discord) in public due to the privacy of it all. However I do not think that I am doing anything wrong by sharing from joint conversation that Chris_NI recently told that he has been swamped with work but that he thinks that he will be slowly returning to participating more among other in the forum !

  • donmaddonald
    donmaddonald Member Posts: 238 Advisor

    this is good.

  • Mark Oxley
    Mark Oxley Member Posts: 359 Pro

    It would seem to me that NI are starting to pull out of hardware development, instead leaving that to other manufactures and going in the direction of supporting those parties with their software. It would make sense given that there doesn't seem to be any movement in releasing a new Maschine 4 / Plus to replace the aging current models.

    The latest Maschine software update was at best a half hearted attempt to keep it alive

    Given this announcement I can't see why anyone would invest in an aging and inferior product now this company is showing more and more signs of teaming up with other manufactures that quite simply offer better products.

    Personally I think it should be welcomed. If I can use NI sounds on a more reliable and better developed platform, NKS and KK with third party keyboard controllers that better suit my workflow then i'm all for it.

  • Cretin Dilettante
    Cretin Dilettante Member Posts: 220 Pro
    edited January 22

    @Matthew_NI You may not be trying to kill your own company, but whoever is responsible for the "big picture" is doing just that. You guys need more employees and overall better leadership…I really do not believe, based on reddit/NI forums/youtube reviews, that your surveys are giving you an accurate picture of what your users want or what you should be doing with your own products. I also don't think you -should- really put out surveys for anything major…like why should it have been up to us whether or not you added Tempo Changes to Maschine? That's a fundamental aspect of writing music. Rhythm is literally the foundation of music, period. You shouldn't have had to ask me whether I wanted crucial but omitted feature or luxurious but ultimately pointless feature. The team should have just done the work and put out marketing videos when the product was finished. The problem is really the way you corporate tech people think, on a fundamental level. It's like there are funhouse mirrors in y'alls brain, and also a little gremlin operating a machine that makes storm clouds…you all seem burnt out and low-key demoralized by the unrest and negative feedback from your users, but also resentful that we're asking you to do what needs to be done…in addition, you have a warped idea of what does need to be done that is partially motivated by the resentment you may have toward your own userbase. Sorry if I'm looking too deeply into it, that's just the vibe I've gotten over the last few years.

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 1,040 Guru

    Thank you @Matthew_NI , for letting us know about the NAMM doings.

    I'm sure Chris will come along as soon as he gets his arms around his workload.

  • Timp410
    Timp410 Member Posts: 2 Member

    I use both platforms so I am delighted to see this collaboration taking place. I just wish there was a least a discount for the users that have already purchased these products

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