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Native Instruments: More trouble than value

Careless product management and lack of legacy support drives me away as a long-time customer

I have owned licenses for various Native Instruments products for many years e.g. Komplete 13 Ultimate, Traktor, Maschine, Kontakt etc. Of course, I also used them in my productions. After these many years, however, I had to learn (painfully) that Native Instruments has no interest in sustainable product maintenance, which has really fatal consequences. It doesn’t matter whether you invest in updates or simply continue to use products that you have purchased at some point.

Soundraw.ai – AI music creation tool or just a fake?

The topic of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) was discussed as part of a lecture. During the follow-up, I came across, among other things, the website “Soundraw.io“, which claims to generate pieces of music with the help of AI on the basis of a parameterization specified by the user. But is it really “Artificial Intelligence” or just an expensive fake?

Don’t buy from reFX – it’s money down the drain

Why you better avoid reFX for now and how you may be treated as a customer of reFX

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Put Facebook in its place

Here are a few tips to make it harder for Facebook to invade your privacy and sell your habits and activities to third parties

The company Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, makes the platform of the same name available to its users free of charge. On the platform, users can create a profile for themselves, their band, a company, etc. and share almost any information with third parties and network digitally. Technically, Facebook is very easy to use and can be used with practically any Internet-capable device. Equivalent alternatives – even though they have been announced time and again – do not exist to date. This is one of the main reasons why it is still very popular

Speech: Agile Contracting

As part of my professional activities, I gave a 45 minute presentation to a professional audience of more than 350 people as part of Behördenspiegel’s “Digitaler Staat Online” event series on the occasion of the “Praxistag Agilität und Skalierung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung”. The topic was the design of contracts for the implementation of agile projects in public administration.

New Release: Free

Back to the 90s, my darling! There are many clichés regarding Eurodance tracks and “Free” serves them. I hope you have as much fun listening to this track as I had mixing it down in the studio.