Kontakt 8 speculations and questions thread

I paid my pre-order for $499 for 15 Collection, but like others, I'm not really see much "development" or at the very least changes that would benefit me? Is end user feedback reviewed at all by a product manager?

No mention of fixing the horrible firmware update process involved with my S88.

No mention of reworking the Konkart interface to make it easy to group sounds/instruments into a collections that I can name and quickly reference. My work around is still to create project templates in my DAW (Digital Performer) and add the various sounds/instruments to those template and then keep a bunch of templates in separate folders. This works, but it's definitely NOT the fastest way to review instruments and sounds and build a database of collections specific to my desires/needs. Why ignore such an important feature that not only could make the product better, but also MORE likely to get me to buy other NKS products.

Then we have the VERY WORKIE issue of MIDI assignments (yes many of use have many MIDI devices) that are NOT intuitive at all and tiny, tiny font, often buried away in a menu or tiny icon leaving us wonder why we have no sound and no keyboard response.

The audio assignment is very much like MIDI assignment problem, extremely workie … selection of ASIO then assignment of channels all in some bizarre column based grid. I get these aren't DAWs, but still, for sampling sounds/instruments Konkart is horrible!

We should have "templates" we can save for everything MIDI and Audio and make it easy to assign/select and not buried away is some icon/menu.

NI software development team seems to be missing a crucial member, someone who knows how to design a UI (user interface) for humans. ;)

$499 is a lot of cash for what amounts to little or NO benefit … feels more like a money grab slapped together.

I keep supporting the development team in "hope" something good and useful eventually comes out of this …

Rob.

You are not a moderator so stop trying to be one.

Customers on a product forum are allowed to provide feedback and speak their mind of the product they want improved.

The subject in this thread is speculations and questions before release. There are many users in the thread, not only me, with pretty strong feedback shaping the current tone about Kontakt 8, and we are fully allowed to do so.

Many users seem however tired of your behavior. Trying to change the narrative wont work.

Muted again.

I just love pre-order for digital software. Are they going to run out of copies or something? 🤣

Apparently some administrators like Kaiwan are very friends with Vocal Point, they ignore all people's complaints about of vocalpoint and Native Instruments but they support everything VocalPoint says, they are not very good at hiding, they already threatened me for saying that I suspect They work together, and they can block me, but they can't cover the sun with a finger, the truth is in the actions.

Never said anything like that.

And I wasn’t criticizing you, sorry if you thought so.

In any case Komplete bundle’s update prices are big value for what they offer. Anyone can be interested in having so many products with such a big discount.

The only part I don’t agree with is the one about supporting with the wallet. Usually I support someone deserving it, not someone working poorly/not fulfilling their duties just to avoid them to go out of business.

Someone’s success or failure is the fruit of strategies, good or bad work, how they listen/care/respect their users….not a matter of charity

Please list, perhaps under the Support page, all the first party Kontakt instruments that has been converted for GUI scaling and a roadmap for planned updates, similar to how you disclose the MacOS NI software compatibility list.

Suggest you also list all those which (for some reason) won't be updated. Transparency is important.

I missed that bit, fair point.