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Native Instruments Kore Product Line is Discontinued

It's official - the Kore product line is discontinued.

http://www.native-instruments.com/#...roducer/kore-2/

not surprised, guy i share my studio w/ has it but never liked it. i also feel the same about arturia's "analog factory", similar concept, very little you can do w/ the patches.

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 arturia's "analog factory", similar concept, very little you can do w/ the patches.

Sorta, but Kore doesn't/didn't end there. If you have the full versions of the NI synths that are represented by Kore's internal engines, you'd have full control over the sounds using the hardware. Kore also works as a sub-host, effect unit, preset chainer, librarian for NI and third party plugins, MIDI controller, sequencer, etc. It's a great concept, but I think a lot of people just didn't "get" it and NI didn't do a very good job of marketing its capabilities, as evidenced by all the "wtf is Kore?" threads scattered about the web.

I had version 1. Never again. Turned me off NI for a loooong time. ONly just starting to appreciate their offerings again now. All that functionality was really the job of the host, and NI didn't understand DAWs at all.

They really lost their way for a while there.

If they drop the price to get rid of stocks, then I'd still be tempted to buy one.

can't say I was ever interested, perhaps because most of the time I was a member of the 'wtf is Kore' camp. as someone waiting to buy Maschine, this comes as good news, with their focus shifting towards it

Funny how it still says 'The next-generation workstation' in the header.

this kinda pisses me off. especially since i was waiting for this thing to be multi-core compatible the way kontakt is now. i love the sound packs i picked up over the years. i love the organization... but it looks like these 'tards are never going to come thru w/the multi-core support.

i'm the 'what the hell is maschine' camp? i have an mpc, i don't think i need that thing, regardless of what it does.

Its expensive. I spoke to them about an EDU discount on the upgrade, as I own K 3 and 4 and Kore 1, but they were still asking for 450 bucks. That seems a lot to me for a plastic controller and an 8 track sequencer, which runs on your computer anyway... For another 700 I could just as easily get a new elektron octatrack, which does similar things but isn't tied to the computer at all.

The entire situation is bullshit. A lot of people are pissed, both on and off of the NI forums.

I also have nothing to buy with the $60 voucher from Komplete 7. I'm gonna hold off a few months on installing it (well, once I get my production computer) to see if they come out with some of the Kore soundpacks for Kontakt...or I'll get the Evolve Bundle....haven't decided yet.

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Originally posted by CalvP Btw the komplete 7 e-voucher states you have 3 months to use it at least, hope that helps

Oh, I know, but thank you for the reminder. It's just that I'd rather wait and see if stuff gets converted out before using the voucher.

I'm still heavily leaning towards getting the Evolve Bundle just because what I was gonna get with the voucher was Sonic Friction and Paranormal Spectrums Kore Soundpacks, and the Evolves may be the best "substitute" for those two soundpacks.

I used my voucher to buy a Traktor DJ bag! haha... The voucher said "The following e-voucher worth $60/50 � to spend on additional KOMPLETE Instruments & Effects." Oh well, too bad, I guess NI didn't realized you could apply it to anything on your shopping cart.

Yeah, the more I think about this the more I think its bullshit.

Its strange too, because their entire business model was becoming more centred on putting out sample packs/soundsets for their KORE product, to the point that they even had the guitar rig player thing doing something similar, which they just released more add ons for. Now they're going in the opposite direction with kore, but still bringing out more "player" type add-ons for their other products.

While I support them moving to bring out more original instruments and less sound sets, I really don't know where they think they're going by just dropping a product that they were pushing hard a few months ago at such short notice, especially when they're expecting people to pay another $450 to upgrade to their new solution. With no EDU discount, that's a real chunk of cash that I think would better be spent elsewhere for me right now.

Their direction is really confused IMO and I think I might NOT upgrade to Komplete 7 as I was planning to earlier, since I'm not really keen on the way that they're doing business.

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Originally posted by DjWoody I used my voucher to buy a Traktor DJ bag! haha... The voucher said "The following e-voucher worth $60/50 � to spend on additional KOMPLETE Instruments & Effects." Oh well, too bad, I guess NI didn't realized you could apply it to anything on your shopping cart.

read your review of it--wish you had spent it on something else NI related?

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Originally posted by CalvP *UPDATE* http://www.native-instruments.com/f...&postcount=1030 The official line from NI is that they have bettered the maschine crossgrade offer to $399 / �349 & it looks like the sound packs that were pulled, will be making a come back in some shape or form

Its still too expensive. A $50 cut makes no difference to me at the moment.

In case you missed the email, NI kept its promise of delivering 64-bit Kore by the end of they year - Kore 2.14 was released today. AFAIK the Kore Player has not been updated to 64-bit yet, but I would assume that it's not far off.

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