Linux support for Native Access and Kontakt Player?

I'm a customer. I spend money quite liberally on my hobby on quality native Linux VSTs like PianoTeq 7 and Ugritones. I own Bitwig 4.0.1 and Reaper 6.34, both fantastic DAWs.

I won't be riding side-saddle with Wine or any other interstitial cross OS adaptive technologies. While Native Instruments Kontact and other programs are reputedly quite good I won't be purchasing them until there is a native Linux option. End of story.

 

NI on linux won't happen any time soon... https://www.native-instruments.com/...-native-instruments-think-linux.337213/page-4 time to move on !

 

Another suggestion: There are some NI products which are discontinued since many years: The dynamo synth, the B3 organ, the Pro-53 and the Spektral Delay effect for example. Since NI don't wants to make money anymore with these products, NI could publish the source codes of these ones and transform them into community projects and volunteers could try their luck in porting them to different platforms.

 

I would like.......... no ....... love it.......but, i guess, this will not happen any time soon. Please native make me a liar.


Uwe

 

I bought Komplete 2 in 2004, upgraded to Komplete 5 around 2010, and then to Komplete 11.

I am at the same place as PeanutButterCelery , I run bitwig 4.1, bought around 800 Eur worth of u-he plugins, as well some other things like tracktion stuff (biotek, retromod), all running natively on linux. Happy.

I won't spend a cent on NI stuff before they support linux.

But NI is a company which doesn't listen to customers. In all my upgrades I spent hundreds of EURs, and there's never a special offer for longtime users. To upgrade to K13 I'd pay the same as someone who only upgraded once ever.

And while they incorporated linux in their Maschine+ making big bucks out of free software, they won't support an ever larger community of linux pro audio users, who, as I have, for years are (nicely) asking for it.

Products are great, no doubt. I would buy Maschine+ tomorrow if there'd be linux native support for all the software needed with it (I know I can use it standalone but I don't see the point).

But not before.

 

There are so many programs that don't require any work to deploy them for linux. And that is also in case of some NI software which is noticeable based on the QT framework which allows you to deploy your software for Windows, Linux, macOS and others without any code changes.

But that is not only the case on a few NI applications. There are thousands of software companies which use QT to publish there software without needing a different codebase but publish it only for windows and macOS. And you can really persuade nobody to publish a linux binary.

Many software companies neither like Linux, nor their users. For them, they're odd persons and nothing else.

 

I've moved on from it. Rolled my own woodwinds and strings with expression capabilities and too focused on learning guitar right now anyways to get too deep into any symphonic arrangements. I'm in no hurry for NI to be available on Linux, and if never, that's fine.