Same thing with Spark - it's like some convoluted science project with a manual written by someone who hates people and doesn't get out much. After a couple of readings I still didn't understand.
Nobody knows what in the hell is going on! I once sat down with the manual, determined that I'd learn how it works no matter how long it took me. I mean come on, does anyone really understand Prism? It's a great sounding synth (and actually has a handful of half decent sounding presets) but the fact that Groove3 (or anyone else) has never released a video course on it speaks volumes.
Which I wouldn't mind if these synths were intuitive, but they're not. The presets are just horrible, 99% of them have no musical use whatsoever and seem to be a demonstration of some synth nerd's technical skills more than anything.
Going through the presets on most NI synths I'm just irritated as hell, and this really became clear to me when I installed Komplete Ultimate 10 and took synths like Rounds and Kontour for a test spin. I know presets are partly there to show off what the synth is capable of, but come on, you have to have a solid core of usable sounds that have stood the test of time and are useful as foundations to tweak into your own variations. I have this beef with a lot of soft synth manufacturers but NI really seems to lead the pack in terms of unmusical, unusable presets that you're just never ever going to want to incorporate in a track, even if you're an EDM producer. In addition to this, their presets are goddamn awful, let's face it. The upshot is that unless you have a phd in physics you're very unlikely to understand what in the hell is going on, and you're never going to fully master them. But so much of their synths and effects are just plain goofy, by which I mean stupidly over-complicated and terribly documented. Their sample libraries are great, I have no trouble with them. The problem I have with them in is their synth and effects products. But recently certain niggling annoyances about their stuff as a whole have come to a head with me. When I first started out in music production and pretty much knew that it wasn't going to be a short lived hobby, I figured it was the most bang for my buck in terms of what you get, and to be honest, I still think it's great value. I've updated Komplete Ultimate religiously since Komplete 8, albeit always when it was on sale.
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