With Komplete Kontrol 3.1.0, users can finally resize the app. For nearly a decade this has only been possible via a registry hack, required because it's often been possible to only see 2 results with the tags displayed.
However, this belated gain is more than offset by the fact that the side browser has been removed completely. The only way to browse now is the full screen one, where you can only view one field's tags at a time. Pick one, guess what the others are. Also it frequently ignores subfolders in results, meaning many libraries have an endless list of identically named patches, and no way to differentiate between them.
In other words, Komplete Kontrol's one function - a browser - is near-impossible to browse. All the odder as its predecessor Kore (and Massive, Absynth and FM7) had a near-perfect ux tag browser almost 20 years ago.
The notion of anything improving from NI therefore seems rather fanciful. Over the years a few developers have tried to make a universal patch browser, with only limited success. Is now the time it could actually work, using NKS? The Reaktor synths in particular are in sore need of a browser, as their tags cannot be read in Reaktor itself (and likely never will as NI have announced that 6.5 will be last feature update).
Two main issues / questions:
1 - are 3rd party devs legally able to use and market an NKS browser?
2 - while you'd think the browser-side of it would be quite straightforward, would hosting the various synths and samplers be prohibitively complex?
However, this belated gain is more than offset by the fact that the side browser has been removed completely. The only way to browse now is the full screen one, where you can only view one field's tags at a time. Pick one, guess what the others are. Also it frequently ignores subfolders in results, meaning many libraries have an endless list of identically named patches, and no way to differentiate between them.
In other words, Komplete Kontrol's one function - a browser - is near-impossible to browse. All the odder as its predecessor Kore (and Massive, Absynth and FM7) had a near-perfect ux tag browser almost 20 years ago.
The notion of anything improving from NI therefore seems rather fanciful. Over the years a few developers have tried to make a universal patch browser, with only limited success. Is now the time it could actually work, using NKS? The Reaktor synths in particular are in sore need of a browser, as their tags cannot be read in Reaktor itself (and likely never will as NI have announced that 6.5 will be last feature update).
Two main issues / questions:
1 - are 3rd party devs legally able to use and market an NKS browser?
2 - while you'd think the browser-side of it would be quite straightforward, would hosting the various synths and samplers be prohibitively complex?
Statistics: Posted by noiseboyuk — Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:20 am — Replies 0 — Views 53