Within the last month products from this manufacturer have had over 700.000 hits on the Thomann Online Store. Native Instruments products belong to the most hits on our website. An all time favourite is the following item Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2, of which we have sold more than 3.000 pieces up to now. Our number one Native-Instruments product is the following item Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol M32. To inform our customers as best we can about NativeInstruments products, you will find a total of 4662 media, reviews and test reports on NativeInstruments products on our website - among them the following 610 product images, 20 detailed 360 views, 3931 user reviews and 101 test reports from magazines (in different languages).Ī total of 37 Native-Instruments products are top sellers at Thomann at the moment, amongst others in the following categories Virtual Instruments and Samplers, Master Keyboards (up to 49 Keys), DJ Controllers, Groove Boxes, Updates and Upgrades, Master Keyboards (up to 61 Keys) and Misc. Native Instruments products are very popular with musicians! Every 80th Thomann customer has bought at least one Native Instruments product at Thomann. Native Instruments products have been a part of our range for 24 year(s). We currently list 66 NI products 50 of them are available for immediate dispatch and 7 offers are in our current Hot Deals. The head office of the company Native Instruments GmbH is in Berlin (D). The cost of ZDT plus having another one around is easily worth the cost if it's actually how you make your money.įranky, if I were a working/touring DJ who used software as the core of my rig, I'd much rather keep my iLok on my keys or attached to my passport wallet and have the option of just buying a new laptop a few hours before a show, restoring my music and configs from an online backup, and not worrying about whether or not NI's customer support is awake and in the mood to be helpful.The company Native Instruments GmbH was founded in the year 1996 by Stephan Schmitt and Volker Hinz. Based on my experience with Avid customer service, I wouldn't expect it to take more than the 14 days iLok gives you to get a new license key. And if it's actually your bread & butter (like…not a hobby), they offer zero down time (ZDT), which gives you temporarly licenses at the drop of a hat. Transferring a license to a new iLok does take buying a new iLok, but it's also pretty painless compared to transferring NI licenses. I bought it separate because it was the same price and I hate boxes.Īlso, iLok's customer service is just plain faster.
I also hate the idea that I need a $50 USB accessory for anything, let alone using Pro Tools ($700) on an rMBP ($4k).The iLok comes with Pro Tools if you buy it in a box. How is using an iLok better? A lost or stolen or broken iLok is a huge, huge pain in the ass.
Not only is downloading a pain, but updating to traktor 2.6 took me 7 days and 3 emails with Native Instruments! I, a PAYING customer, did not have the update availible in service center, had to delete all of my Native Instruments software off of my computer (Including Maschine) and re download ALL of the files from the slow slow site (as you mentioned) in order to get it to work out. The next time it happens, I won't be coming back.Īnd unfortunately for you, your website is so damn slow, I've got plenty of time to think about alternatives before I actually waste the disk space.
But don't punish legitimate users because you think your shit's worth it.Įvery time I start up Service Center or have to install your software, I think about ditching the lot and moving to something else. How often to people really use Maschine or Traktor or any of your other crap without any NI hardware plugged in? Just start building dongles into your hardware.
I just did it, with an installer they give away for free in an easy to find part of their website, plugged in my iLok, and it works. Installing Pro Tools, on the other hand, was simple. Thank you for making me, a paying customer, seriously question the point of bothering to install a legal copy of Maschine because I decided to format my drive when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. And the way you distribute installers is a joke.
There is not a damn thing you make that isn't cracked on, and their installers are way less of a pain in the ass.
When I was on Traktor, I liked it just fine.īut, seriously, Service Center is the worst Piece of Shit anit-piracy software I've ever seen, and it doesn't even work.