Hi, it would be great if I could browse .nkis and such in MediaBay
Yeah, that would be really good. But as long as NI doesnāt even support VST3, that wonāt happen.
It is a shame that the large software companies are not interested in any common standards.
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My guess, they will/are in the process simply due to all the 4k resolution problems people are having.
But what does the fr have to do with VST3? Mediabay could just allow for custom file type entries by the user? ie, show anything that ends with ā.nkiā
I am also convinced that it should be technically possible to include any data formats in the media bay. But this is about company policy. Steinberg users should preferably buy HALion libraries and not Kontakt libraries.
This is true and I considered it - but - Cubase is what Steinberg is mainly selling, and Steinberg is aware of their position in the sampler market, ie, Steinberg is AMD cpu with 15% of the market, and NI/Konakt is Intel with %80 of the market. AMD isnāt going to make it impossible for their GPU products to work on Intel based motherboard.
ie, having .nki part of MediaBay is a feature that may sell more copies of Cubase, than they would sell of Halion.
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Yes, that would be kind of logical. But in practice it looks different.
Another example: For a long time now, it has been possible to save the presets created in Cubase no longer in fxp or fxb format, but only as vstpresets. This format can only be used by Steinberg users.
Steinberg invented ASIO, VST and other ingenious things and still thinks today that all other companies still only have to follow Steinbergās ideas.
The Mediabay is a great thing, and it would be nice if 3rd party products could be integrated there. It is the same with many other features that were previously only supported by Steinberg products themselves. Just think of the automatic transfer of expression maps to MIDI and instrument tracks. This works wonderfully with HALion- and GA-based products, unfortunately not with contact libraries.
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There are Intel processors available with integrated AMD GPU. Intel is using the AMD 64bit extensions in all CPUās.
Not a really good exampleā¦
hmmm yes and noā¦ since it is a database this can slow things down (more than it already does)
this would be very good, indeed
they try to introduce some innovation, nothing bad on thisā¦
Iām trying to sayā¦ itās not just black and whiteā¦ everybody can use VST and ASIO but they can introduce their own technologies to the market as wellā¦
despite my analogy - this thread is clearly not about CPUs. Secondly, my example is fine, your interjection makes no difference and doesnāt negate anything I said, in fact, you further proved my pointā¦ which was that companies donāt always benefit from excluding each others technologies. Iām not sure what youāre getting at when you just reinforced my example yet, saying itās not a good example.
MediaBay is extremely snappy and quick for me, nothing slow about itā¦ and my Intel system is fairly old. Iām not sure about the connection youāre making between MediaBay being a database and allowing other file types = slow? I donāt really get what youāre saying? Adding more files to the database will slow it down?
yesā¦ thatās what I tried to say
My Media Bay shows 290.000 entries when I click on āAll Mediaā with no filtersā¦ and it takes time to find things
yes of coarse, but it would be up to the user if they want to add .nki files, the suggestion that the user could customize their own listā¦ if thereās something slowing it down, they could take it off the list
Iām trying to say that Media Bay needs some improvement, but adding .nki will not do ātheā trick
Media Bay stores informations inside a database and to add the possibility to search for .nki will not change that much.
You still have to organize your nki files outside the Steinberg worldā¦
I always organize my files outside the Steinberg world, makes life easier
I thought the max entries is 100,000 items?
maximum items in results list are 100,000?
it shows only 20.000 results but it finds way more entries
you can increase it to 100,000
but this is all irrelevant to my fr