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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

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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.

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