Digital Music Creation, Software, Rant
Native Instruments makes some of the absolute worst software on the planet. Komplete Kontrol is such unbelievable garbage it's incredible. Do they ever actually use this? Does anybody even test this stuff and will it ever get fixed? Things not showing up, things showing up but not loading, every single time I add something to Kontakt or Komplete something goes wrong. Every! Single! Time! It's always a struggle. Native Access is no better. Seriously I just dont' understand how it's even possible to create software that works as badly as this whole suite. It's almost like they design it like this. It's almost like they intentionally ruin this whole thing. Figure out how to make it as frustrating as possible. There wasn't a single time I set out to do something and it just worked. Sure, the plugins themselves are OK. They work. But anything to do with managing them? Installing, configuring, setting it up... I just cannot understand.
Digital Music Creation, Software, Rant
Oh and don't even get me started with their whole DRM crap. Create an account here. Create an account there. Download this downloader. Download that downloader. Install this license manager. Install that license manager. Use this license download manager downloader manager utility application downloader manager. This is such a mess. This whole thing. It's all so awful. iLok. Pulse. Native Access. All horrible. This is so incredibly broken it's not even funny anymore. It makes me want to cry and laugh and cry and laugh at the absurdity of it all. It's just truly impressive that people think this is OK. Oh it isn't. It's far from OK. I just do not have the words to express how not OK this is.
Digital Music Creation, Software, Rant
Anyway I spent $100 on some new stuff and spent most of today trying to get it to work. I still haven't. I'm probably about to just give up. Maybe for today, maybe I'll refund. I honestly don't even know anymore. I didn't level my patience stat high enough for this.