Matt McKenzie-Smith wrote: > > This rant may well be getting out of hand. Art may have nothing to do > with this. This seems to be the case: since his original "no comment" on the Bitshift Forum Art posted the following -- ____________ > > Sorry, that 'no comment' has caused a lot of trouble off the forum. > > I shouldn't have used the 'wink' emoticon. The point is, I don't really know > what to say... I saw the Intakt presentation at NAMM... it was a very > well-done powerpoint presentation, but I couldn't find anyone at N.I. who had > actually seen it running, so I couldn't find out much. > > It looks really nice, albeit somewhat familiar (like pHATmatik PRO raped > Kontakt and this is the offspring). I'm surprised, because I expected them to > add this feature to Kontakt. As a happy Kontakt user, I certainly won't be > shelling out another $200 for the Intakt skin and shovelware loops from > ancient libraries. > > Anyway, the NI folks always turn out good stuff (I use Kontakt daily for > sound design chores, and I love it), and I'm sure Intakt will be no > exception. > > To clear things up, however: We had NOTHING whatsoever to do with Intakt > (well, I mean, obviously we seem to have influenced them quite a bit, and I'm > bumming about that NFR I sent to one of their developers (haha) but other > than that... a loop slicing VSTi is just a 'good idea' and I'm sure we'll see > more from other vendors... Mixman have just announced a mixman VSTi, too and > my friends over at www.devine-machine.com are deep in the process of porting > their amazing toy to VSTi) > > As for our own plans... 'no comment' icon_smile.gif > > Best, > Art