Get Kore (or Player) 2 before it's taken out!

[Nabeel Ansari]

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/native_instruments_discontinues_kore_product_range_16744

They are discontinuing. I am sad, because it was my first sampler/sample set that wasn't soundfonts.

[Kanthos]

I was wondering when NI would give up on Kore. I found it buggy for use as a standalone live performance host, and not worth the overhead for hosting plugins in your DAW just for the sake of finding presets easily.

Besides, all the good NI soundpacks are for Kontakt anyway.

[big giant circles]

I love my Kore 2, this surprised me a little. Whatever, I guess Maschine is their money-maker these days anyway, so I guess it makes sense that they're shifting to that.

[avaris]

Kinda sucks for the end-user in the present time. But it's good corporate business practice 101 to make this decision when you have a similar product that integrates much of the same functionality. Hopefully this will free up some of their developers to work making some new synths etc... and less sample pack nonsense.