Native Instruments Responds to Stanton's Final Scratch Statement
Feb 23, 2007 2:11 PM
Native Instruments (NI) has issued a public response statement to a general announcement Stanton Magnetics made on Wednesday regarding FinalScratch compatibility. The NI statements appears below in its entirety.
"Native Instruments would like to clarify several aspects of its involvement with the FinalScratch system and address potential misperceptions related to a recent statement from Stanton Magnetics.
"FinalScratch is a product of Stanton Magnetics, who bear the full responsibility for all aspects of the system's development, maintenance and support towards their customers.
"Stanton Magnetics never requested the development of a Mac Intel-compatible version of the FinalScratch software within a reasonable timeframe before the partnership of the two companies ended. Native Instruments has completely fulfilled all development and support responsibilities towards Stanton Magnetics.
"Native Instruments had originally planned to maintain FinalScratch compatibility in Trakto 3 for an indefinite amount of time. Stanton Magnetics has however issued, and never retracted, a legal statement that has forced Native Instruments to remove FinalScratch timecode compatibility from the Traktor platform. The announcement of the "FinalScratch Open" program in January 2007 has not relieved Native Instruments from this specific legal constraint.
"In the meantime, Native Instruments has made extensive changes to the Traktor platform as part of the Traktor Scratch product development, including new high-resolution vinyl control technology. Re-implementing FinalScratch support into the Traktor software at this point would mean reversing months of development work, and would therefore be a prohibitive effort.
"To provide a favorable alternative, Native Instruments will instead offer a special crossgrade that will allow FinalScratch owners to switch to the Traktor Scratch system at greatly reduced costs, while even allowing them to keep their FinalScratch system.
"Native Instruments is determined to accomodate FinalScratch users in the best possible way, and is confident that it is taking the most effective steps to further advance the cause of digital DJing."
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