NI Insolvency

[Felix W]

With the development of AI music, simple needs will no longer require music producers, leading to a significant number of music producers leaving the field. This indirectly reduces demand in the audio development sector, making it even more difficult for the already low-demand audio hardware and software industry to survive.

[dannytaurus]

I bet NI's servers are blowing up right now, with everybody downloading installers for every product they've ever bought.

[Lindon]

@dannytaurus said in NI Insolvency:

I bet NI's servers are blowing up right now, with everybody downloading installers for every product they've ever bought.

The problem with this approach is Native Access - which validates and installs their products - requires access to the NI Servers, so people may get the apps they require but they cant (re)install them if NI just "goes away" - which frankly is very very unlikely...

[dannytaurus]

@Lindon Agreed that NI is very unlikely to just suddenly disappear. There's too much valuable IP for that to happen. But there will probably be a mass exodus of staff.

But those servers are getting hammered right now, that's for sure!

[dannytaurus]

@Lindon I know this is a big ask, but if anyone here is deeply familiar with Kontakt or Reaktor it would be really cool if they could cobble together a "HISE for Kontakt/Reaktor developers" guide.

Just terminology and concept translations really.

That would surely help a lot of the new folks to acclimatise to HISE.

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus said in NI Insolvency:

"HISE for Kontakt/Reaktor developers" guide.

People keep asking me for this. I'm just not sure how it would work, the two are so different.

I'll have a think and see if I can come up with a structure that makes sense.

[Lindon]

@dannytaurus yeah Dave your man for this - if it can be done at all he would be the one to be able to do it, that he would even want to is a different question....

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey said in NI Insolvency:

I'm just not sure how it would work, the two are so different

That's kinda the point!

I'd help if I could, but I only built a couple of basic things in a very old version of Reaktor, and I never got on with Kontakt at all.

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus I've received another two requests for this so I'm working on it now :) Might get a video out today or tomorrow...

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey I don't think you need to rush it. Plus, maybe an accompanying document would be good because it can be updated without republishing the video?

[David Healey]

Really interesting live stream from Christian Henson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3fNs90lv8c

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey Fascinating stuff! Big takeaway for me is keep your business model simple.

[dannytaurus]

Panic over? (sarcasm)

https://blog.native-instruments.com/statement-from-nick-williams-ceo-of-native-instruments/

Can't help thinking a message from the CEO would have been better before all the kerfuffle?

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus Nothing new in that statement, just CEO waffle. Probably limited on what he's able to say.

[hisefilo]

This is the end of an era. AI will be the standard. NI didn’t realize that. Hope HISE does. ( by adding deep integration with AI frameworks. Dataset processing etc)

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey Yeah, it was meant to be sarcastic. Too dry I suppose. Edited

[David Healey]

@hisefilo said in NI Insolvency:

AI will be the standard

Standard of what?

[resonant]

@hisefilo said in NI Insolvency:

This is the end of an era. AI will be the standard. NI didn’t realize that. Hope HISE does. ( by adding deep integration with AI frameworks. Dataset processing etc)

No doubt with that. Although we have friends with opposing views, I agree with you on the same point.

I hope HISE will be an AI workbench.

[David Healey]

@resonant said in NI Insolvency:

AI workbench.

What does that mean?

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey I think folks are hoping that AI will be integrated into HISE such that you can describe what you want and the AI will guide the build, of just build it.

If that's the case, it might be basically the same as letting AI loose with the underlying JUCE framework. Christoph mentioned this a week or so ago.