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That will probably change. Too many DAWs out there. Relying on a fanbase to come through will be a failure.

There is a trend I see on Image Line forums where people believe an audio interface is not necessary. They'll spend 2K on system components and try to use Awful4all or the variants of it my DAW developers. Believe or not there was a user who bought BBCSO and tried using Awful4All and getting glitches.

That most likely reflects the pro market but for that average Joe the top ones probably don't make the list.

I'd rather buy direct than deal with NI. NKS or whatever is not a life changer for me. Unfortunately Native Asshat is.

2nd best reason to avoid. 1st is dealing with Asshat

I have their version that comes with hardware. I deleted it. It reminds me of Cubase with the additional clicks just to start working.

Must be a new developer with another proprietary plugin. Licensing is not favorable either.

1st time I've heard of them and it's only their loops.

At what point does one realize Komplete is all about bloat. It comes and goes with me but their Native Asshat which always breaks starts to me me think of not buying anything new from NI.

Maybe they don't have to lead the league in the race down to zero if they changed their licensing.

It adds the Limiter and wants you to buy it but it has a great uninstall and you can remove that.

Didn't know what MTM stood for. For a minute I thought I was at ViControl

It seems like their Poor-t'all broke on it's own. Update not present but stays it's not installed. I'm tired of logging in using that (cr)app. It seems like the NI people tinkered with it.

I think going to Studio One would be an easier transition.

I bought this and I like the sound but when the word Jazz is involved in a synth player it should have jazz chords instead of the usual major or minor.

I'm a fan of bland or 8bit looking GUIs. I don't even do color schemes. I love Live's 8bit look. I have all of Melda and working with them seems to be a rocket science. Lack of available know how is their weakness. Reaper use to be that way.

They have a small staff. It's their revenue that is huge. I don't think they even employ over 30 people. They also have their own shop selling presets. They got out of the 3rd party plugin business for now. They also didn't follow the enshitification model even after buying UVI. They let those companies do their own thing. I do buy stuff from their shop which is Flexx presets. I don't do their loop cloud until they start selling midis.

Serum and Spire of you don't have them.

There's a lot of software that's no longer developed and it just works. I've come across those who still use Acid Pro when it was Sony. I guess 64 bit just doesn't impress them.

I don't know a single person who uses Audtion

I've never encountered that. I'm waiting for Image-Line to go out of business after the license I've had for over 15 years.

I tend to see it as a money pit. All of those libraries are genre related. It's their player that shines. Eventually they take up space. I upgraded EZ Keys recently and try to figure out an EZK to get. With Kontakt and the endless VST synths nothing really tempts me. Usually they will have a EZD3 upgrade for $79. It's random.

By Soundpaint standards most likely. In the age of bloated libraries that's almost like floppy disk.

That's why some use loops.

I have plenty of DAWs where no sub is needed. Subs go up in price. How many people have ditched their Prime or Photoshop/Lightroom sub that has doubled or tripled? Will Waves ever recover from their mistake? Intro prices on subs are usually attractive but 5 years later they are not because they are not near the same price. I guess one reason why the stuff shirts favor subs is people are not responsible enough to cancel them or make a person jump though hoops just to cancel. There will always be developers to market against subs. If it became a sub only there's too much damage that only the fanboys will subscribe. Once again we will be dealing with another distribution app that makes using software more of a chore.