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Well it doesn't look like GOOD news ...
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!
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It would be sad for them to be done and release no new products or updates. It will be AWFUL if their demise means the products I already own cease to function!!! Is that likely?
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It would be sad for them to be done and release no new products or updates. It will be AWFUL if their demise means the products I already own cease to function!!! Is that likely? I strongly suggest multiple backups. I have two backups here and one at my brother's house. FWIW - I believe any company that ceases to provide support for a software program then said software program should be available for free.
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NI<->DRM. Only drive clone, later used on same machine will solve this. To my understanding it uses system ID to tether authorization. I believe NI is too big to fail, with roughly 1,000,000+ paid users plus it is embedded too deeply in music making community. I am not authority on the subject, but I don't know of any music making software company of this magnitude that would just close doors. Sure, anything is possible, but I believe chances of total doom are very slim. Cakewalk (Sonar) in the final days of Gibson had roughly 100,000 - 150,000 users. In the middle of the hot mess, chief hinted that if for some reason they would have to shut servers, they would do permanent unlock of paid software. I can still activate my Gibson 2017 Sonar. Having said that, I usually do a full drive clone every year 
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I'm not a lawyer but I have slept at the Holiday Inn Express.
I remember when I first bought one of the NI products. It was one of the Komplete bundles (version 4) of 6 or 8 synths. I actually still have it on my newest DAW and it still works and gets used from time to time. At that point in time they had a couple dozen offerings. A recent look at their website shows a listing of almost 1000 products.
I'm thinking they've spread themselves a little bit too thin with so many offerings as opposed to focusing on the things that made them into one of the best synth makers in the music industry.
I'm a pilot, well, I was a long time ago, and one of the sayings that got drilled into my head was Don't drop the airplane to fly the mic. In other words, attend to the main task first. A lot of companies, when they get too big, lose focus on the main objective. That may very well be the case here with NI trying to be the solution to everything. When you have too many things going on, and you have upstart competition selling similar products for less than half what you have to charge, the future starts looking bleak. And I think that's exactly where NI finds itself now.
How, or if they can find a way out of this mess has yet to be determined.
They make some really top quality software and it would be ashamed to see them fold up.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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NI acquired iZotope a while back. I'm up to Ozone 9 Advanced and standing fast.
I wonder how much AI is impacting these businesses. If AI can produce and mix and master, why spend money on DAW's and plugins, etc?
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I wonder how much AI is impacting these businesses. If AI can produce and mix and master, why spend money on DAW's and plugins, etc? I'm absolutely sure it's been playing a big part. Why buy and learn how to use synths, and acquire the keyboard skills when you can write a prompt for "80's style synth"? Same thing goes for the mastering..... Ozone 10 or 11, cost vs just let AI master it, especially when you can easily compare the O-10 results with the AI results and can't tell which is which. As Dylan sang.... The times, they are a changin'.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Sheesh. Izotope is what our productions are centered around. Yeah as mentioned you can clone your drive (we Apple folks back up multiple times daily) but a new OS can kill many fx. For example current Izotope products are still not compatible with the current MacOS that was released in October.
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