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In Resolve 14 last year they added Fairlight and throughout the year steadily released multiple new versions with minor features and improvements. These were basically rewrites of those products.
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Over the past two years they have been making impressively massive improvements in their major releases, incorporating their acquisitions of Fairlight and Fusion into Resolve.
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The time wasted on testing and fixing the regressions is a death blow.įor an example of how to do this right, I have to point out Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve. I've seen it enough times where lack of modularity causes monstrous regressions with all but the most trivial of changes. (Scalable in the sense of modularity, so you can have multiple parallel branches with different teams focusing on long term innovation and another team doing short term features and fixes and being able to merge the changes back in with minimal regressions.)
#Kontakt 5 updates code
Hard to say without an internal scoop, but in addition to everything else mentioned so far, another factor could be a rickety and unscalable code base. There's been a reasonable pace of development but it just seems to me like most of the focus has been outside of Kontakt, and of the advancements in Kontakt they've felt pretty minor. It's all just a personal guesstimate, but still I can definitely confirm that NI is aware of the issue and are working on the fix, at least - as I was assured by Kontakt's product designer, the idea is that Kontakt will ALWAYS be able to open ANY library made for any version of Kontakt Player, so what we're seeing here is some sort of regression, perhaps it might also be tied to NA. It is perhaps implied, but please don't take my personal assumptions as a confirmed fact, as you know I'm under NDA and cannot really share what will come in which version when, in public (in fact beta testers aren't privy at all to this info, we just know what is coming when we get a new beta, but nothing before that). Just an asterisk, I don't think I said that the fix is coming FOR SURE in 5.8.1, but that NI is aware of it and that we will PROBABLY have 5.8.1 in due time. Fix on the way in 5.8.1, so a good idea to hold fire for now. Over on KVR, Evil Dragon says there is an error with Kontakt 5.8.0 and some very old libraries not working. IMO something's been up with NI's management for the past few years. Really basic fails all of these, and little new innovation elsewhere too. You still can't point NA to an NI library to add it manually, nor use it offline. It's pretty much impossible to use effectively, after how many years now? The Kontakt library pane is still a library pain (ha ha), with crushingly slow times to re-order anything.
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KK still doesn't have any way of viewing what library or plugin a patch belongs to and doesn't have a resizable gui.
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We're in "what do they do all day?!!" territory. I'm still pretty staggered at how slow progress has been on NA, K5 and KK, given the size of NI.
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Given the various problems reported, I'm not rushing to 5.8.0, will wait at least for a bug fix release after this. The library search thing is new, but I don't think that's such a big thing really. And updates too - any bug fix / new feature / new content updates are also always latest version. Lawrence wrote: ↑ 1:27 amI guess new libraries will insist on it, is the thing?