That said, this dev made a really fine sample library and I'm very grateful for his generosity and hope he gets lots of business. Programs like BootCamp can be used to run Windows on a Mac, if the immediate goal is to run Cakewalk by BandLab on a Macbook, iMac, or Mac Pro. But as a user, I'm a huge fan of not having to use and maintain a ton of different plugins to play sample libraries and not having to worry that my investment will be worthless if a small developer stops supporting their plugin because they've moved on, died, whatever. In its current form, Cakewalk by BandLab will continue to operate solely on the Windows operating system. On the flipside, one can easily make the argument that it creates a near monopoly for NI. I don't agree with making their own plugins - I already have a ridiculous amount of various developer's proprietary sample players. But I empathize with devs who do this, which is often done out of empathy for customers who can't afford or don't want to buy KONTAKT. When an indie dev creates their own sample player it means one more plugin to learn, update and maintain that might have issues at some point, especially if the dev later gets out of the biz or abandons their old library. I would prefer if this were a KONTAKT library too. It is sad that there are not, say about 3, sample standards so that any player could use them and you would be free to choose 1 single player (yeah, I am dreaming of a positive future, but I know that it goes exactly the opposite way! That's progress in the 21st century! 😄). But I dare to say this is just another sample player! There are now so many out there! The problem is if I am in need of an instrument I only look up in my vsti catalog and in Kontakt! Most of the time I forget about the samples in other players! That's why I avoid adding more samples that are out of the most common players.

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