On January 27, 2026 at 11:33 pm lamia6 said
Image Line would be another candidate, maybe? Their CEO is the former CEO of NI (Constantin Koehncke).

Excellent point.

On January 27, 2026 at 11:32 pm lang said
With the recent news of Native Instruments (NI) entering preliminary insolvency in Germany, I’ve become increasingly cautious about developers with high fixed assets. Personally, I think we should be careful about investing heavily in EastWest and VSL right now.

My reasoning is based on what looks like a…

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Image Line would be another candidate, maybe? Their CEO is the former CEO of NI (Constantin Koehncke).

With the recent news of Native Instruments (NI) entering preliminary insolvency in Germany, I’ve become increasingly cautious about developers with high fixed assets. Personally, I think we should be careful about investing heavily in EastWest and VSL right now.

My reasoning is based on what looks like a desperate push for cash flow to offset t…Read More

It is possible that Dr. Martini could sell off the crown jewel of NI. It would raise money. Now, just imagining that and potential buyers in the industry — and not an investment group — what are other players you would be interested in it going to? This is my hot take on potential places Kontakt could land if Martini decides to sell it off. (NI…Read More

@fretman I’ve known from developers and pro musicians have told me about various issues with libraries. I can’t say which ones told me about various libraries, but the problems are not that rare. Although I will share one because of the developer’s ethically problematic practices of using his contractors to attack his competitors and make shill…Read More

Joke: Now its time to someone help them with some coupon like the ones they gives us that are almost useless because of the strict rules.

😛

I like a lot of their products but don’t buy often since they charge the same prices even when the products have aged. This is also a good example of why many of us are apprehensive about subscriptions.

On January 27, 2026 at 11:28 am mira said
NI forum thread

 

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/49857/rumour-native-instruments-gmbh-is-in-preliminary-insolvency/p2

Coined a hilarious interview with Dirk Ulrich from there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4C2v9ZyhBw&t=4965s

It’s also worth noting that by US standards, Native Instruments is considered a small business. On forums, people talk about NI as if they’re a really huge corporation; they’re not.

NI has 400 to 500 employees and are estimated to have annual revenue of $78.5M to $113.7M. That’s pretty far from Microsoft and Apple or even a mid-size company (by…Read More

This is a slight update on Skybox Audio. I recently used J Celeste from their Chimes product in a sparse baby lullaby instrumental. During the solo there’s nothing else going on, so it’s quite exposed. I kept hearing a whirring/motorized noise in the background that was bothersome enough to cause me to dig into it. I loaded the waveform into RX11…Read More

@fretman I think those are really helpful insights. They also could be useful in a section I’m contemplating adding that lets us review developers, but for now, it makes sense to have it here (plus, the tool we use to break off comments from threads is presently not working).

I personally don’t have much experience with EastWest libraries. I only…Read More