My new year wishes for NI

With “neutral” I meant it is not a games developer company itself.

It is a store that doesn’t mind too much if they sell A or B: they earn money in any case.

More than that, the videogames industry is a different case: if today you buy FPS A, probably tomorrow you will buy FPS B anyway. And then C and D. You always need a new game to play.

While if you buy piano A maybe it will suffice you and you will continue playing it instead of buying B, C and D (I know…this is not always the case…but this has more to do with our consumerism than the need for a new piano to play…)

I only partially agree with that.

Surely the main decisions are taken above (specially regarding the strengths they can put into something)

But Matthew has been more than clear that the (unlucky) decisions taken on Komplete Kontrol were his own and he stood by those, even when users started to show some were not so welcome.

And also: I don’t know how much people here notice all these interactions happen mainly when it’s time to sell something…to then disappear (or at least decrease drastically)

Which is more than normal…but surely show more interest in selling you something than really knowing what users think/want…

And that is one of the things that puzzles me the most: if I was somebody producing something and willing to sell it, I would REALLY know what the people that eventually will buy my stuffs want. And, when possible, I would give them those, so I would sell more.

It’s the difference between BEFORE and AFTER: you are interested in users opinions? You ask BEFORE (and then make your moves accordingly). You want to sell what you already worked on? You try to convince of your moves AFTER.

That said, all of what I wrote is an exaggeration: I do appreciate people from NI being present a lot more than before and willing to take the risk to be criticized as I’m doing. But I still think that this could be improved, i.e. by moving BEFORE instead of AFTER. And by participating in discussions like this one so that next time you have to choose your moves you’ll know better what the users want (that I’m sure was the intention of Kymeia starting this thread). It would really be more useful than interacting in other discussions just to justify your choices or answer to critics about what is not working (which is, in any case, admirable)

Because of how AI's "inputs" (aka learning, aka iterating on prior work products) function, I expect that we will ALL eventually be accused of being AI. And AI won't always be able to tell the difference between you and me and another AI.

And some day after that, we might not be able to tell the difference between each other and AI. I'm hearing right now about the possibility of having a meeting with somebody who looks, acts, and speaks like a person, but who is actually an AI "agent". And I'm thinking to myself, "I already get sales solicitation calls from AI entities. In a way, I'm already having meetings with AI!"

But AI does have a ceiling that it currently can't surpass. Kind of like how Moore's Law has its limits below a certain molecular size for transistors and pathways. At least today.

The problem is i would give a guest key to every single NI user ☺️

It's 2025 they should be saying something i know Namm is around the corner but if they are waiting for namm to promote another device I'm sure sales will decline..

I wouldn't call it dumb.. it make sense you can use kontakt all other instruments it's faster than using komplete kontrol which extremely disappointing..

Do yourself a favor and put Sunborn on mute, like I have. It's an objectively better Community experience.