Following NI, legal, forum, and social media posts, it really blows me away — but I suppose it doesn’t surprise me — how many people profess to understand this situation when that couldn’t be further from the truth. If anyone is writing that this is no big deal, that NI will be fine, they don’t know what they’re talking about. NI is no longer in…Read More

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I posted in the Plugin Alliance Audiophiles group that head of Plugin Alliance (Mo Valens) and various top execs at NI are in to address Mo Valens “business as usual” statement that I wrote about earlier. Here is my post in its entirety:

Mo Volans My heart goes out to all NI employees. But…Read More

In case you don’t want to watch some guy in a mask:

I was hoping for an early “Sounds of Summer” so I could upgrade Complete one last time 🙂

With all that’s going on with NI’s insolvency, I’m certain that many music producers will be researching alternatives like Soundbox, UVI/Falcon, HALion, SoundPaint, Musio, etc. It’s a very good time for these companies to step up their presence.

“For shure”… 🙁

On January 29, 2026 at 10:28 am jude77 said
I guess it depends.  If someone like OTS had a big sale I would be all over that.  Likewise if it was an obscure instrument I had always been looking for I’d be in (“Oh wow! Look here’s a model of a 1966 Farfisa organ with a dead middle C note just like John Lennon once kicked over”).  Otherwise…

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Native Instruments’ CEO statement is pretty standard stuff for a company in this situation. Of course, his job right now — and his position is very limited, as the preliminary insolvency administrator is now in charge of things — is day-to-day operations under the supervision of the preliminary insolvency administrator is going to want him to…Read More