Native Instruments in sekret pakt with Linn Audio?

The evidenke is there for all to see...

I have been using kontakt 2 for a konsiderable time now, and I must say how impressed I am with it. The konstant use of k’s everywhere kan be annoying, however. All kredit kan be attributed to those krafty konstruktors of software synths known as Native Instruments. The insert effekts are exkellent, and easy to akkess; the konvolution masterful, the klarinet, kello, akkordian, and klavinet simply pure klass and konsiderably better than most soft synths playing midi on the market this kentury. The obsession with k’s rivals that of Linn Audio, and makes me suspekt a subversive, illikit partnership!

You be the judge…

The Sondek LP12, Ekos SE, Akito, Akiva, Klyde, and Adikt , are some of the Linn turntables/akkessories available, for example. Their disk players inklude the Majik and Classik. Their Pre-amps… Klimax Kontrol, Exotik, Majik Kontrol, Kisto and Kinos. The list goes on.

Their website: http://www.linn.co.uk/linn_products


Native Instruments...

Kore 1, Reaktor, Kontakt, Vokator, Elektrik Piano, NI-Spektral Delay, Traktor, and so on.

Their website: http://www.native-instruments.com


Very suspekt!

Word misuse disease spreads through media...

Yes, the terrible lose/loose confusion has now made the front page of the Limerick Independant, as we are informed that some poor teenager "looses life". This inaccurate use of the word loose is spreading like wildfire through Irish society. It has yet to appear on a large scale elsewhere, and seems to be mostly confined to Ireland. Specifically, the issue is with the replacement of lose with loose; the opposite never seems to occur.

Some examples of this error:

Student looses jacket in Main Building.

Team loose to rampant visiting side.


Loose, to me, refers to the state of not being tightened properly, to be about to fall off or fail; lose refers to the state of no longer being in possession of something, of misplacing it. Interestingly, if a bolt was loose on your bike, you could easily lose it...

You can, of course, loose an arrow, but this is from the likes of Robin Hood novels and involves letting an arrow fly from your bow deliberately.

Merriam Webster has the following to say on the matter:

Main Entry: loose
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): loosed; loos·ing
transitive verb
1 a : to let loose : RELEASE b : to free from restraint
2 : to make loose : UNTIE
3 : to cast loose : DETACH
4 : to let fly : DISCHARGE
5 : to make less rigid, tight, or strict : RELAX
intransitive verb : to let fly a missile (as an arrow) : FIRE


Main Entry: lose
Pronunciation: 'lüz
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): lost /'lost/; los·ing /'lü-zi[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English losian to perish, lose, from los destruction; akin to Old English lEosan to lose; akin to Old Norse losa to loosen, Latin luere to atone for, Greek lyein to loosen, dissolve, destroy
transitive verb
1 a : to bring to destruction -- used chiefly in passive construction b : DAMN
2 : to miss from one's possession or from a customary or supposed place
3 : to suffer deprivation of : part with especially in an unforeseen or accidental manner
4 a : to suffer loss through the death or removal of or final separation from (a person) b : to fail to keep control of or allegiance of
5 a : to fail to use : let slip by : WASTE b (1) : to fail to win, gain, or obtain (2) : to undergo defeat in c : to fail to catch with the senses or the mind
6 : to cause the loss of
7 : to fail to keep, sustain, or maintain
8 a : to cause to miss one's way or bearings b : to make (oneself) withdrawn from immediate reality
9 a : to wander or go astray from b : to draw away from : OUTSTRIP
10 : to fail to keep in sight or in mind
11 : to free oneself from : get rid of