Another slap-in-the-face to us M+ owners from our loveless NI parents.

Kuttor

Soooooo, years go by with us asking please please please allow us to buy M+ compatible variants of the Komplete Keyboard plugins… and what do you guys do to your freakishly loyal M+ (flagship Maschine) owners??

You allow your competitors… MPC/Akai compatibility but not us.

Devices that have much worse specs (besides the touch screen I suppose — which that is subjective) and aren't even freaking NATIVE devices… worst is that they are direct competitors?!?!?!

So you give them new instrument,plugins, and expansions.

Thanks NI… Thanks a lot.

Flexi

They haven't give them any plugins, the sampler in the MPC is way more advanced (no idea where you get the idea it has worse specs? it doesn't) and as such it has allowed the sound designers who created the Play series to port some of the Play series over to the built in sampler on the MPC, no plugin, just mapped samples with a UI/Macro script.

NI are heavily invested in sound design and sample packs and expansions, why would it possibly be a bad thing for them to support more platforms, they are not your friend, they are a business, and all they want to do is make money, that is their literal purpose.

PK The DJ

"all they want to do is make money"

…but they could have chosen to make that money from NI users first!

Plugin, mapped samples, call it what you will - MPC users have it before NI's own customers.

ozon

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/206493#Comment_206493

NI users would have insisted to get M+ optimized sound libraries, which they already have for desktop version of Kontakt, for free. And threatened to jump ship otherwise. 😉

PK The DJ

Well that is the way Akai do it. Simultaneous release for desktop and standalone for one price.

Even with the stems release, which was staggered (desktop first, standalone later) it was one price.

el-bo

What was wrong with posting this in any of the other threads on the subject?

ozon

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/206521#Comment_206521

I‘m puzzled. First you say NI should have made money by offering these soundpacks to Maschine+ users, before offering them to MPC users.

Then you suggest NI should have offered them for free.

What now?

LostInFoundation

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/206615#Comment_206615

Nothing wrong.

But nothing is wrong even in creating a new thread, maybe more focused on the feeling that decision left to the OP.

At least, on his own thread, no one will accuse him to go off topic or derailing a discussion