Absynth is dead

Hi,

It's a shame, but understandable.

Customer care, I'd like to know the following:

• If I upgrade to Komplete 14, will I lose access to Absynth? (I would guess not as it's an upgrade)
• Will it be possible to activate Absynth for the foreseeable future, or will it eventually be impossible to do this?
• In the event of activation being disabled, would it be possible to provide a copy of Absynth that doesn't require activation?

While your frustration is understandable, you seemingly don't understand why things happened the way they did back then. (And why it's rather unlikely that something like that will happen again in the near future). Luckily, there's a FAQ below explaining everything clearly:

• https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006053397-Service-Center-and-Legacy-Products-End-of-Life

Software becomes old at some point - that is an inevitable thing. And NI's software is no exception to that. Don't expect companies to provide support for their software for centuries because, realistically, this simply isn't possible nor feasible for various reasons.

"thanks for your post, full of interesting and insipiring thoughts...Reaktor "form" is a good granular ereaktor ensemble too. But Absynth was more that a granular synth, a real hybrid with a palette of synthesis."

Actually, Form is no granular synth at all. It does "sample tracking", which is a different thing. There are no grains like in granular synthesis.

it is just disgusting how people even defend NI/companies.

VSTs might not be supported forever

• fact, yes, but if you buy it you should be able to still use it/authorize it even if a company discontinues it or gets out of business or whatever

You dont own digital goods

• just digitally yes, which means offline only, online only? or both?

Just imagine NI gets out of business, gets sold or whatever or they say byebye all and turn of Native Access! you dont own and cannot even use your ****** anymore :D.

NI did that already with Service Center only VSTs, you guys should think ahead and not being selfish and whatever. such BAD and just BAD VEY BAD customer care shouldnt be supported.

they just take your products away for which YOU PAID! LEGAL PAYWARE you cannot use anymore! who says NI will continue to let you activate Absynth 5 next year? or the year after etc.? Absynth 5 is unique, Camelaudio gave you offline installers and went to Apple etc. also other companies gave you offline installers, offline serials etc. but NI just rips you off, my old VSTs i cannot activate anymore. so they just dont let me use my OLD software! legally! so what now?

First of all this has little to do with Absynth itself getting phased out, but also... you're talking about the digital consumer market in general.

What's more disgusting: people taking advantage of companies "because" and usurping all of their development efforts for free because "warez", or companies which try to protect their income and livelihood? Not to mention that you sure do a lot of assuming: why assume that NI would just close down by giving us all the finger vs. ... unlocking all of their stuff before closing up shop?

I get the impression that you don't seem to understand that there are people working at companies like NI and they too have families to support and mouths to feed. What about them, hmm?

Also, you spout off a lot of nonsense. Service Center you say? Ripping off you say?

So how the heck did this happen if NI is only trying to "rip us off":

I paid for those Kore soundpacks, I was especially impressed with North India because I had never heard anything so authentic as that back then, also with all the strumming effects and all. This was... what? 8 - 10 years ago? As you can see I can still use 'm if I wanted to.

Or what about Komplete Elements 7? That was my first "real" entry into Komplete, (ab)used it back and forth and it was the main motivator for me to step into Komplete 12 & 13 UC.

Fun fact: I still have the box for KE 7 but as you can see I could also download it if I wanted to, talk about extra service! See, you mentioned service center but you neglected to mention that the rule back then was very clear: download the installer, keep said installer safe because we won't "just" hand out a new one.

Which is why I still have this:

Guess what? It takes a lot of tweaking and messing but I can still get that critter to work "sorta". Together with all the soundpacks I paid for I might add.

What was that about losing access to all our stuff "just like that"? I mean, you do realize that Kore really is no more, right?

And it is those personal experiences, which well lasted over 10 years for me, why I favor a company like NI. Because they're not all words and hype, they actually have a history to back up their words and actions.

It still exists, but I don't know what will happen in two years. I'm worried about the future.