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KONTAKT Interface sucks and needs an upgrade

Discussion in 'Feature Suggestions' started by SADARAHU, Dec 9, 2019.

  1. SADARAHU

    SADARAHU Forum Member

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    I'm a developer (different niche), but I'm quite familiar with the IDE design and programing. At the same time I'm a musician and composer.
    It makes me very upset every time I need to deal with KONTAKT and struggle with reading the interface or even more frustrating reading the library screen. Some library developers make labels and buttons big enough but many do not.
    Most people who use glasses do have problem with KONTAKT inferace. When somebody use 4K monitor (like me) it makes things even worse because Kontakt is simply not scalable.
    MY glasses are 1.25 (not really strong). My OS (Win10) is scalled up to 150%. I have no problem reading any fonts in other programs because they scale along with the OS.

    If you would like to see an example of god interface and design look at SERYM VST from XFER RECORDS. It is clean, scalable and noone would ever have issues with reading anything on the screen.
    Another example: Ableton Live just changed the whole interface and fonts so not it is scalable and causes no problems to read anything on the screen.

    IT IS TIME FOR NI for finally do the same thing. I believe this debate goes on for several years already and it makes me really upset how unresponsive NI is in that matter.

    I want KONTAKT behave the same way.
    1. Fonts must be vector (not raster as it is now)
    2. Window must be scalable (at least up to some size up/down)
    3. Library developers must get tools to create nice and readable interfaces as well
    4. Library list needs better organization
    5. Altough there are exceptions, most people use some kind of DAW where they manipulate sounds and they do not care about Kontakt features for that part. Every sample can be tweaked in DAW so I don't think NI should spend much time on that.

    6. Komplete Kontrol is simply a container for Kontakt and it is super poorely designed. It eats up extra memory (as it loads KONTAKT + KK) and has the same problem with scalability

    I hope NI will take this into consideration because using KONTKAT is like going back to DOS era. It is so akward and plain and counterintuitive that it should be replaced with some competitive product long time ago. Yes it is convenient and popular but I hope one day it will face some competition. Meanwhile I wish NI developers start thinking about serious upgrade because so far nothing productive has changed in Kontakt for years.

    In last few weeks I purchased 12+ librearies ranging from $30 to $400.
    3 of them - I'm not able to use because the interface is unreadable
    5 of them are barely readable
    2 of them I can only open through FILE menu (despite devs paid license to NI for lib listing in main browser)

    every once a while database gets corrupted and I need to rebuild it
    ,... so there is a lot to fix and improve
     
    Last edited: Dec 9, 2019
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  2. EvilDragon

    EvilDragon Well-Known Member

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    This didn't need a new thread really because the topic on this already exists.

    Also if you think that Kontakt devs aren't aware of this, you are wrong. But it is not going to happen overnight on a 20 years old codebase.
     
  3. ShelLuser

    ShelLuser NI Product Owner

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    For the record; I don't believe a real developer would sent in a feature suggestion like this.

    Trash talk about a product isn't exactly the kind of thing a developer would be looking forward to receiving and makes a rather poor feature suggestion if you ask me. Seriously... if this would happen on some of the products I'm involved with I wouldn't even bother to open the thread solely based on the title. Maybe something worth considering with future suggestions. Not to mention that some of your shared assumptions are plain out wrong. Komplete Kontrol for example can be used for much more than just Kontakt.

    Sure, you may not like the interface, fair enough. But that doesn't automagically make it a bad interface by definition. I know plenty of users who hardly have any issues with it, myself included.