Status on m1/m2 update?

After working in this industry for over 30 years, supporting win, mac, *nix, networks and systems, I honestly wish Apple didnt exist today or was just an OS or software vendor.

The Personal Computer was always enough, and we never had to have a second and competing ecosystem that overlaps the more inclusive one and causes chaos like *the above* on so many vendor social spaces. The innovation that Apple brings, since the day Jobs and Gates fell out and decided to build Microsoft and Apple, isnt distinct enough or innovative enough to justify this entire wasteful second ecosystem, imo. This is bigger than 2 competing tech companies, and our earth's ecosystems reflect that.

This same argument plays out everywhere and leads to angry, dissatisfied people. Much of the dissatisfaction springs forth from expectations set by tech-lite marketing hype, pop culture product placement & bourgeoise lifestyles, rather than real tech specifications and human ability. Its a shame, but under an economic system like this one, energy is wasted as a matter of principle, not by accident.

And who needs bipedal body form? It's just crazy! Don't get me started on opposable thumbs!

This is where I don't follow. There are so many products so much older than Reaktor that are in a much less zombie state, even in similar categories. Reaktor is not that old. The fact that it's been left to slowly rotten with sporadic, tenuous outbursts of life doesn't seem at all inevitable to me. But more than anything it's strange: of all the things NI has made, this is among the big ones. And yet the company seems to drag it like a curse. People in these kind of forums tend to speak of companies as if they were driven by some kind of deep, inscrutable good sense, but looking at the last 5 or 6 years, I just can't see it. It's not like companies have never been destroyed by their own management...

I think we’ve drifted enough from main topic as it was, best not to make it political now ;)

Let’s just say that we have to agree to disagree regarding your previous post and this one…

"And I guess NI will try to make customers to "pay" for AS native support."

Considering that Kontakt went native in February, this seems rather unlikely? Sure, if Komplete 14 comes out in a few weeks and other plug-ins do get native support by then, ofc you'd have to pay. But it's not like that (i.e. holding off of releasing AS compatibility until K14) is NI's plan.

I did not say, AS transition would pay just Mac users. Of course, all users. But Mac users will have higher motivation to upgrade for full price and not wait for Sale.... Win users will update in time that suits their needs, not because of technological reasons.

Well, some maybe because of VST3.

If I understand it well, all users of Traktor will get new features. But those on subscription model will get it sooner. And who cares? I still use Traktor 2, even thought I have Traktor 3 licence for several years...

How is it that Adobe was able to release their most prominent apps on Apple Silicon within months after it was released, and now, with a vastly more complicated ecosystem than NI, they have released native versions of  Photoshop, Acrobat DC, Acrobat Pro, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Adobe XD, InDesign, Character Animator, Dreamweaver, Premiere Rush, and Adobe Audition, their audio editor? Apparently, one company appreciates the fact that Apple users represent a large segment of creatives who are loyal to the platform, and the other simply looks at the number of their Windows users and says, "yeah... Apple Silicon can wait." Well it's been over 2 years, and some of us are done waiting.

I think it's pretty old. Most other products that are still around and as old as Reaktor are true flagships that are significant to the income and potentially the survival of their developers. I don't think Reaktor really fits into that bracket.

I wish Reaktor was more actively enveloped, but I think it is something of a niche product owned by a company that is actively trying to dominate the mainstream of their market sector. There are lots of Reaktor 'users', but I would guess that many of them are really only Reaktor users as a consequence of being Komplete users, and are unlikely to have bought Reaktor as a stand alone product.

In that context, the languishing state of Reaktor makes complete sense, even though I don't like it. I'm happy that it still exists, and is still valued by NI.

I could be completely wrong about this. It's just my view as a result of the way development and maintenance has been over the years.