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Old 08-25-2011, 03:24 AM   #26
Evan
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Originally Posted by Jim Roseberry View Post
IMO, Kontakt (for better or worse) is so far ahead of the competition... there literally is no competition. HALion 4 and Indy Pro have some nice features... but they're not even close (especially considering Kontakt's custom script capabilities). Some serious competition would be good (for us and in the long run for Native Instruments)... but from who/where is it going to come? Who can afford the massive ~10 year developement that it'll take to equal/surpass Kontakt? About as bad a strangle-hold as Microsoft has on the OS market.
I remember a time when the reference sampler was gigasampler/gigastudio, and the OS was Windows 98. Gigasampler popularized the concept of disk streaming, hence the huge libraries we have until today. But it was close to a nightmare to get it to work, stable. And often you had to dedicate a separate PC just to run gigasampler.

I think we have it pretty good nowdays!
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