Here's the deal though, that right there is speculation. We know they aren't currently developing Reaktor, we do not know the reasons. I'm firmly on the side of "Reaktor and Kontakt are being used to develop more PLAY instruments. So nothing amazing will happen with them for quite some time" camp. Not in the "Reaktor is dead so Kontakt will now become NI's development environment" camp.I think you've missed the point of this. As I see it, NI are totally unfussed about Falcon and Halion being competitors. However they wanted a new platform for their synths since Reaktor was taking up too much time and resources to keep ticking over.
To get into the nitty gritty, there's nothing that special about subtractive synthesis, Wavetable synths are popular for a reason, and there are plenty of Kontkakt Wavetable style synths.There's not hundreds of true VI synths in Kontakt right now. There's synths based on samples, but pretty much that's it - I don't know of any credible synths in the way Reaktor had credible synths. And giving some kind of real synthesis to their shiny new sampler will be the cost-effective way to produce new synths ongoing now that Reaktor is gone.
Yep, but in the end I'm betting PLAY instruments based on Kontakt or Reaktor under the hood are what we see going forward.IMO even Massive X was a stepping stone. It showed they still want to make synths, but MX showed was too expensive to build from the ground up every time.
I don't think NI are rolling Reaktor tech into Kontakt, just don't see it, most of the issues with older plugins involve the GUI, and if they attach a modern PLAY series GUI scheme to either engine, then they solve that without having to rebuild the Reaktor GUI environment. I'm more cynical about it, there will be no real changes to Reaktor, and Kontakt will get cosmetic ones.
Statistics: Posted by machinesworking — Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:13 pm