When will Reaktor7 come?

back when it was called Generator, before the sampling features were added and the name changed to Reaktor, it wasn't just a flagship product, it was their first and only product! ;)

Ohh i only jumped on board at Reaktor 3…"only" yah i when i was actually young in my twenties hehe.

Yeah and no. If they had positive plans for it I would be all good to still use it.

Since it's future in a questionable state, then that raises the risk flag. Risky products in general don't fit in with the workflow.

Remember, NI is under new management. They also own iZotope and Plugin Alliance now.

Like many mergers they would have gone through the personal cut by now, they would have had a long, hard assessment of all the projects, they've already given a couple the axe and put a couple in the "uncertain future" category, Reaktor being one.

Its only a matter of time before they circle around to the uncertain projects and based on how successful everything has been up until then they will either give it the go ahead or deem it End Of Life.

It's true that their Traktor stuff relies alot on Reaktor tech, but that's the thing. 10 years on and not alot of that has changed. Traktor has better functionality a few more features, but it still relies on the old synths, such as Massive for example. Sooner or later, people are going to want something more modern and progressive and that will play a major part as a the catalyst on the future of Reaktor and Reaktor based products.

In the immediate future it will be stable, since they just released new version of Traktor. In a few years time this will all be called into question by the powers that be who will want to minimise overheads and maximise profits.

VCV or even just a regular software synth, depending how you use it. There are so many great things out there that are doing what you can't do in Reaktor unless maybe you build it from scratch.

It's not an A|B choice between scratch build, or pure user though…

The best thing in Reaktor is that you can use a bunch of Factory or User Library content, and modify it to your needs, or add a little extra missing feature as a separate instrument.

You can choose your level on a continuum between just using content, modding, intermediate scratch build, right through to build everything yourself at a DSP level without even using factory components. Can't do that with VCV, or a regular synth…

…and besides, there are so many great things in Reaktor that you can't do with other things out there…

I couldn't tell you how many times I've made a recording and went into the user's library looking for something suitable. Most definitely a perk.

Wrong , there was a huge rewrite in 2010 for reaktor 5.5 + advanced modules like sinebank and modal bank
That beng said , plugdata is absolutely awesome .
I use it on a daily basis and for midi sequencing alone it's vastly superior to reaktor , and let's not even begin with the amazing gui not dependent on bloody bitmaps .
Here's some stuff I made in pure data .

At least this question animates the forum a little!