In fact, the millennial generation has done a couple things I absolutely love. Are recording studios the mecca of all music now, or are we home working successfully in the box? The next wave of composers aren't going to know the journey nor see the need. Expensive and complex will start to fade. There's a lot of great stuff out there now. When the experienced composers were going through the development of all of this from floppies to GigaSampler to Kontakt, it's all you knew and there wasn't a mass distribution of that experience on our Motorola flip phones. But wait, Kontakt lets you build sample libraries, right? With all that has emerged in the last 8 years as far as choices out there, how much of a consumer base will there be for making your own stuff? I may be way off but I believe the trend is heading over to the completed library side, and the uncountable amount of music pieces being shown and played on social media is being consumed by the up and coming who are hearing about these newer companies, so that's all they know. Tthat's what's going to capture the attention of the incoming and upcoming crew and the need for Kontakt will dwindle due to market-share. But the upcoming new generation is seeing Spitfire and even OT be really involved in offering GREAT libraries plus a plethora of low cost and freebies, plus the enormous social presence with walkthroughs and tutorials galore, straight from the owners. The Kontakt UI is not great, it's a mass of a bazillion amazing choices that requires mouse clicks galore, along with archaic navigation like Play (that's subjective, you may love it). I develop software, I know these apps will improve and I'm fine with that. I'm thrilled that I now can use Synchron and SINE and the Spitfire Player. There are a plethora of new young guns arising who have zero emotional attachment to the long fruitful journey that many of the seasoned pros and longtime members have on this forum with Kontakt. Before you blast me, hear me out: I'm old, but I'm new to MIDI Orchestration. It will not be around forever because the ecosystem is changing. Kontakt is software, very good, very complex and that means nothing unless you have an audience. Just consider a couple things before we all laugh at the wolf blowing on the brick house.
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