Feedback - Komplete Kontrol 3.0

Matthew, as much as I don’t agree with NI’s direction and some of your decisions, I do appreciate your honesty and engagement here.

Thank you for that, I have great respect for you.

@Matthew_NI

I also would like to thank you for taking the time to respond and try to calm somewhat ruffled waters, and it's not my intention, believe it or not, to shoot the messenger. Unfortunately, there still aren't that many avenues for the more disgruntled of us to voice our concerns, and often little indication that our concerns are heeded in any way.

KK3 is only really of use to those that are going to find it useful, and as a majorly Maschine user that isn't going to be me. I still think that it should be tabbed so that users that just want a low resource wrapper that they are used to can be appeased and not feel overwhelmed by the Kontakt style options and so the two spaces aren't crowding each other out as appears to be the case at the moment.

Maschine has been left in a dreadful state where its readability, speed and ease of use have been severely compromised by what were probably well-intentioned but badly implemented changes to accommodate clips. The fact that it was just left like that when just allowing a legacy option on duplication would have at least gone some way to lessening the damage stings badly.

No-one atm is willing to talk about it and the complete lack of traction, and it's nuking from the Komplete Keyboards makes me feel it's dead and that something is to take its place but no-one has worked out what.

Understandably, that makes users nervous if not a little angry, and it's incredibly hard to have any confidence in any future developments recognising what Maschine is / was good at. If that really was the case, would they have nuked Jam????????????????

It's surprising just what a difference even seemingly simple things can make to user experience, and that really does in some cases seem like it's taking a back seat. Easy example.... prior to Maschine 3 switching between keyboard and chord was two stages...just switching that to one quick stage made a huge positive improvement. When you're working on ideas, anything that slows you down is a pain, and anything that facilitates speed is like a gift from the Big Chap.

The change in graphics / iconography is another case in point. Having the symbols and their colour coding made grabbing which app you wanted far quicker than what has replaced them. Even keeping the colour coding would have helped.

It's lack of recognition of things as simple as this that make me, and seemingly some others, worried about what some of the current focuses are.

Why break Komplete Kontrol s61 mk1 integration with maschine? Why update the maschine plus and not tell users the update breaks integration? I can’t even use it in midi mode with my own mappings. You’ve stolen from me as far as I see it. The keyboard no longer does what it did when I bought it. So buy it back or fix it. And the new ones fyi too big to be so basic in terms of onboard controls. Please get the suites out of the decision making they have no clue what they are doing. This is coming from a fan boy whose forum membership is much older than it states. I purchased nearly every product since 2010. This is coming to an end 100%. NI is sad and it makes me sad. lol

Reading your description of your experience really makes me feel awful for you and I don't have an answer as to why. On the other hand, I was honestly relating my own personal experience after swapping back and forth between the two versions more than once. As to why this was not the case for you, I am at a total loss.