A Kontakt / Giga combination, for any developer, works on all platforms and in most every program. It's not my company, but if I was asked about Mach 5, I would vehemently oppose it because MOTU has the absolute worst customer service and is snotty to boot. They're arrogant and uncooperative. You can never get through. And have you every noticed that no one knows who the company president is? He/She never attends NAMM with an identifier. I think it would be a just reward if the president of MOTU unmasked himself and sat down with his user base to hear what they had to say. Maybe a tour of duty in his own tech support department would be worthwhile.
Additionally, MOTU QC on PC products is rotten. Not abysmal, rotten. I have hundreds of dollars of MTP AV's sitting here unused because they can't get their XP Parallel drivers functioning as promised.
When MOTU gets cooperative and clearly has a product that's the equal of Kontakt in its ability to function excellently on both Mac and PC platforms, I say there would be something to talk about.
Additionally, professionals in LA are tending to move away from DP towards either Cubase SX 2 or Logic.
If MOTU was cooperative and responsive, that would be different. But they aren't. And I don't see them as worth the investment money. An investment in Kontakt covers both platforms and nearly all the products, and as such, produces a realistic ROI and with Giga, covers the entire global marketplace.
Peter Alexander
peter@truespec.com
Additionally, MOTU QC on PC products is rotten. Not abysmal, rotten. I have hundreds of dollars of MTP AV's sitting here unused because they can't get their XP Parallel drivers functioning as promised.
When MOTU gets cooperative and clearly has a product that's the equal of Kontakt in its ability to function excellently on both Mac and PC platforms, I say there would be something to talk about.
Additionally, professionals in LA are tending to move away from DP towards either Cubase SX 2 or Logic.
If MOTU was cooperative and responsive, that would be different. But they aren't. And I don't see them as worth the investment money. An investment in Kontakt covers both platforms and nearly all the products, and as such, produces a realistic ROI and with Giga, covers the entire global marketplace.
Peter Alexander
peter@truespec.com