Zero faith left in Native Instruments as a company

I have zero faith left in humanity. But I soldier on. Cats, they deserve to rule us all.

Seems like all forums need a "I don't like your sandwiches, I'm leaving you forever. Bye" thread.

All tech companies are having issues these days. Apple has had a lot of issues with iOS and macOS of late. MS Windows the same. All the disparate hardware, drivers and whatnot have gotten to a bit of a fluster cluck point, where 90% of folks have no issue, 10% have to go online and blame Santa for not getting a stocking this year.

Hang in there. At least you still have all your fingers and toes.

It is not obvious to whom you directed your post, @Maciej Repetowski. But I do feel that the OP wrote a lot of unnecessary drama in that post.

Not at chk071, I thought it was quite obvious 😉

Yes, everyday there is at least one post from another drama queen throwing a tantrum and one post from someone who can’t be bothered to use Google Translator 🤣

Gets slightly tedious…

This is a true and fair criticism, and especially on the point of negativity I agree.

That being said, NI has clearly worked to shift their product base to something markedly easier to use and less rich in possibilities. The new generation of producers is preset-oriented, which, while not wrong, is perhaps a bit disheartening from the perspective of a sound designer.

I think bemoaning the lack of development with MX specifically is a valid complaint; as it stands, the last update dropped almost a year ago, which is a far cry from the original marketing. Yes, of course, the pandemic screwed things up, and the M1 development was indeed difficult—no one ought be debating that. However, NI is putting a lot of effort into its more recent / collaborative products and I think MX owners feel somewhat scammed, seeing as the marketing was so different from what happened in a manner which feels to some like betrayal.

I understand that feeling, and I probably won't be buying any more NI products either—though that's mostly on account of my not being the target audience of the newer products (which there is nothing wrong with), and the older products being (for me) a tad cpu hungry. I was told to buy MX over Serum by a reasonably big producer I know out in Cali, and in some ways that was bad advice (I also used Vital at the time so it only mattered so much), but I do not regret that decision—MX has served me well, despite its flaws.

I am not anti NI, nor do I think that OP's level of negativity is beneficial, but some of the base complaints oughtn't be dismissed simply because they were levied in a disagreeable fashion. Yes, one could always go elsewhere and buy other products, but that money is now spent, and it would be nice if NI would make a stab at making the money more wisely spent.

To be clear chk071, I am not in any way attacking you. Your perspective and sentiment is absolutely valid, I am just saying in an unnecessarily verbose fashion (mea culpa) that there is some weight to what was said.

If I am an AI, then I'm a really really slow one. I only just now saw your post from back in May! 😁