NI -- really? -- come on...

Sammy, you should have posted it at NI forum for better visibility:
http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/forumdisplay.ph...

Anyway, I do understand your irritation, but look at all the word modifications made by brothas who make urban soundz from the streetz n' shit!

Spectrums?

I agree with Sammy.

In protest against NI, we will no longer be known as "The Knights who say NI."

Henceforth, we will be "The Knights who say Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing Zow Zing."

Artemiy:

Hey man -- thanks for the info. I could have posted this at a myriad of other sites for "better" visibility, but I'm trying to AVOID that!



I am not looking to pick a fight with anybody. I would rate my comment as being tantamount to a satire piece on music software than anything. This is why I was saying that I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and that I wasn't really upset.

I wasn't. I was just poking fun at them is all. And in fact, I really do appreciate that NI exists and that they have succeeded in competing head-on with Spectrasonics. I'll tell you this much -- the cool thing about NI products is that they have much better hardware control capabilities over their software than Spectrasonics does. This is what happens when a software-only company tries to release only software -- they forget that real humans need to use their stuff.

I have a huge gripe with Omnisphere, because it is really a mouse-only product for editiing. Sure, you can definitely assign controllers for performance, but if I tried to do that to edit every single control in their software, I would need a larger apartment.

Anyway, good discussion here. I'm not going to push it anymore though. I said what I wanted to say.

Later.

- Sammy

P.S. And I won't really boycott NI. That was a bit of a joke... whether I ever end up purchasing Paranormal SpecTRUMs is anyone's guess... but I'm actually trying to avoid using samples when possible anyway. So I'm saying that it won't have anything to do with the name or their marketing angle. It will most likely have to do with what I'm trying to do musically, and this is something that I believe is defensible and --'

Oh, screw it. I'm ruining a pefectly funny thread, aren't I?

Grammar has an occasional drinking problem! . . . It's kinda sad, really. It's just not something that is talked about. . . .

sRa

One more nail in the Grammar Wombat's coffin...

https://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/jordanrudesskeyboa...

Jordan Rudess video tutorial called **Keyboard Wizdom**

LOL !! Wow, Grammar Wombat, that’s brilliant! LOL!! And the artwork is excellent as well.

Good ol’Monty Python…I’m surprised this thread doesn’t have more lols in it.

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I can't really disagree with SammJames when it comes to imitating names and the such.
But, aside all that, NI has really become the industey standard, at least when it comes to samplers/sample players. Most resepcted sample libraries almost always come in Kontakt/KontaktPlayer versions, making it possible to run them all through one environment. I run all of my big sample libraries, like EWQL symphonic Orchestra, LASS, Symphobia etc, through Kontakt 4. And this is really convenient to work with.