EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

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 --
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>
> 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