If Apple rolls the Redmatica stuff into Logic, you'll benefit from seamless EXS integration.
That's probably of limited benefit to me. And it's definitely less useful than a tool that includes the ability to create cross platform content - I'm sure Apple sees it as a benefit as well as Logic users who only use EXS, but that's not many compared with those running Kontakt.
Um... is anybody still pressing CDs?
Just adding another example of software Apple dumped after buying a third party company. And yes, there are still plenty of people authoring CD's as part of how they make a living, just walk into a store that sells them or do a search on Amazon.
Let's be realistic. It won't happen.
Yeah, that's what I said. And that was posted before the announcement that Redmatica was shutting down, at least before there was some possibility the software could continue to exist.
...I suspect you'd do well to start shifting your focus to EXS24, your other sampler.
Not particularly interested in moving from Kontakt, a cross platform sampler (and one that at this point is far beyond what EXS is capable of) to one that's Logic only. Even for things created for personal use, it doesn't make much sense to be stuck with a format that will be useless on other DAWs. And for developers creating commercial libraries it makes even less sense.
For a while it was fairly easy for devs to support EXS since they could use Keymap and export both EXS and Kontakt versions without much extra work. At least until Kontakt added lots of new features and EXS stagnated, then most developers dumped it. If Keymap reappears as a Logic only solution, developers aren't going to be able to use it as a tool (unless it has the ability to import Kontakt libraries, doubtful in the case of newer ones with complex scripting, but who knows). Really, if Keymap goes Logic/exs only, there probably will be even less development of EXS libraries.
We'll see what happens with EXS but I'm not optimistic even with Andrea working for Apple. All we know at this point is that the sampling world is losing some great software. Maybe we'll see something amazing in/with Logic, but it's also possible that Apple shuts down Redmatica and just has him work on Logic but without the addition of something like Keymap. I hope that's not the case, but we'll see.
