From the perspective of a 'freebie instrument maker', I'm very curious to see what approach IK takes to 3rd party developers. I really think that it is the plethora of 3rd party instruments that drives Kontakt. Even in the freebie world K5 is basically the musical instrument equivalent of Windows 7. You have to release for it or you would loose a vast portion of your audience. You would think that since Kontakt costs some good coin and is more pro that you wouldn't get as many folks interested in freebies, but when I've released multi formats, Kontakt 5 always comes out on top significantly.  Free Maize VSTi is next, but likely would be higher if I bought the full version and released better VSTis. Then SFZ which has a solid following and finally Sampletank 2.5 Of course, ST 2.5 is long at the tooth and some folks are gratified to find something new for it, but it just feels like IK never got their foot in the door with 3rd party guys.

bigcat
From the perspective of a 'freebie instrument maker', I'm very curious to see what approach IK takes to 3rd party developers. I really think that it is the plethora of 3rd party instruments that drives Kontakt. Even in the freebie world K5 is basically the musical instrument equivalent of Windows 7. You have to release for it or you would loose a vast portion of your audience. You would think that since Kontakt costs some good coin and is more pro that you wouldn't get as many folks interested in freebies, but when I've released multi formats, Kontakt 5 always comes out on top significantly.  Free Maize VSTi is next, but likely would be higher if I bought the full version and released better VSTis. Then SFZ which has a solid following and finally Sampletank 2.5 Of course, ST 2.5 is long at the tooth and some folks are gratified to find something new for it, but it just feels like IK never got their foot in the door with 3rd party guys.

If you contact us directly at http://www.ikmultimedia.com/contact-us/ContactIKForm.php you will be routed to whoever can help you with any 3rd party requests, info, etc.  Thanks.

Oh thanks was not really expecting a response.
I sent off a little message, look forward to hearing from your company.

bigcat
Oh thanks was not really expecting a response.
I sent off a little message, look forward to hearing from your company.

I was asked about it so it has been received and the Project Manager is aware.  Thanks for your interest.

I got a nice message back. Thanks again. Look forward to seeing what ST 3's capabilities are. Enjoyed the piano demos I heard from the mobile things you guys have been doing recently and i understand they are from sampling sessions for ST 3.
 
If you want to see any of my alleged work.  http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/

IK are tweeting they are going to have a "really big" newsletter coming soon. There is even a pixelated picture of the said news letter.
 
Mind you soon seems to have a different meaning at IK and we have seen plenty of pictures.

Someone say pictures???.........and yes we do have choices!!
 
 

 
 
 
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