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littlejim84 · 21st January 2009

Do pros in studios actually consider the Native Instruments software packages as industry standards? Such as Kontakt, Battery, Massive, Absynth? ...they seem to be the only really complete and very high quality software packages that cover all the needs... An instrument sampler, a drum sampler, a chunky phat synth and a nice texture/atmosphere synth respectively.

There is all this software that comes out all of the time, and its easy to get wrapped up in all the bullshit, and not actually make music. But I'm trying to take things a little more seriously with my music and stuff... I'm learning Logic slowly and already use Ableton Live for my groove maker and live performer software. I want to choose a selection of third party software that I can get to know really really well... I was thinking that Native Instruments stuff would be it.

But I've been losing faith in their product range recently... Even their recent NAMM efforts have been pretty unexciting to me. They seem to be abandoning their old product range and concentrating on sound packs, Kore and new gadgets...

But these mentioned softwares are worth knowing right? That selection of stuff, as well as Logic and Live, really would be pretty much everything I could need? (but I'd like to have useful skills for later down the line too...)

I just wondered what the take of all this software is? Spending the next year getting to know all this stuff inside and out can only be a good thing for me right?

21st January 2009	#1
littlejim84 Gear maniac Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 221 Thread Starter	Are Native Instruments industry standards? Do pros in studios actually consider the Native Instruments software packages as industry standards? Such as Kontakt, Battery, Massive, Absynth? ...they seem to be the only really complete and very high quality software packages that cover all the needs... An instrument sampler, a drum sampler, a chunky phat synth and a nice texture/atmosphere synth respectively. There is all this software that comes out all of the time, and its easy to get wrapped up in all the bullshit, and not actually make music. But I'm trying to take things a little more seriously with my music and stuff... I'm learning Logic slowly and already use Ableton Live for my groove maker and live performer software. I want to choose a selection of third party software that I can get to know really really well... I was thinking that Native Instruments stuff would be it. But I've been losing faith in their product range recently... Even their recent NAMM efforts have been pretty unexciting to me. They seem to be abandoning their old product range and concentrating on sound packs, Kore and new gadgets... But these mentioned softwares are worth knowing right? That selection of stuff, as well as Logic and Live, really would be pretty much everything I could need? (but I'd like to have useful skills for later down the line too...) I just wondered what the take of all this software is? Spending the next year getting to know all this stuff inside and out can only be a good thing for me right?