NKS 2.0 - a running list of compatible content

Just noticed that CS-80 is listed on the 1st page of this thread so is that one official. It still has some of the problems that I mentioned with Arturia's other pre-QA implementations, i.e.

• Multiple controls for the same thing (e.g. separate controls for LFO rate depending on whether or not is it synced)
• Non-obvious control names
• Controls not using the new graphics (e.g. on/off)

There are also a couple of pages with just a single control (e.g. Wah).

If that's after QA then it doesn't really fill me with much confidence for Arturia sorting out the rest of them. Getting the impression that the quality is going to be down to developers' willingness to put the effort in (see Diva and Porphyria) rather than NI driving it…

I think companies such as e.g. Arturia just do not see it as a make or break feature that is important to the user base of their products. Being honest here too, of all the users who bought Porphyra so far, not one has commented that they bought it due to the NKS2 integration features, so I can see that when there is a budget in play and you have to balance returns on investments, this is maybe not a high priority for most companies.

I think you have three kinds of buyers: Firstly for the sound design, secondly, first movers on expanded hybrid instruments in Kontakt 8, and thirdly, NI/OceanSwift fans (some of which have MK3) - I also own Pathfinder for instance, so was glad to see you back in the game.

Having a lot of instruments with NKS2 implementation, I bought these for that implementation - and actually reason two and three on the list above. And your implmentation is brilliant - it makes workflow and editing so easy.

From where I stand, Komplete UI is in its infancy and it is not there yet as a platform, and it could take time to evolve to where it should be.

One example - there are no waveform or wavetable widgets, so Porphyra can simply not be created there. If it was possible, we would do it.

Thats amazing to hear that you and others in this thread appreciate this and grabbed Porphyra for these reasons, indeed for a smaller developer like us this makes a world of a difference - every crowd you can "hook" is important. All I am saying is maybe for a bigger company like Arturia, if they look at their userbase as a whole, maybe this is not considered by them a big priority. Obviously I am just speculating.

There is always a reason to support the back catalogue. Not very long ago Heavyocity released a new addon library for Novo, so the life cycle story is a bit more complicated. Problem is the core instrument is not really supported well, very pixelated GUI, no NKS2 it seems, yet they expect more money for some new strings sounds. Hard pass for me here. First upgrade the core instrument to extend life cycle, then I may purchase the new addon.

Spitfire just recently released SSO in a new version so there is precedent where we see refreshes. Some smaller updates could be pro bono, maybe a small upgrade/crossgrade fee to cover the dev hours for bigger updates - but just do something to keep the older libraries alive properly. IMO.