There is so much misunderstanding and misinformation on this situation right now. Some folks think this means Native Instruments is shutting down; it doesn’t. Others are calling this a rebranding. That’s fantastically wrong. This has nothing to do with rebranding or marketing. This is fiscal and an incredibly serious situation. Native Instruments…Read More

I anticipate that Native Instruments will be issuing a public statement within the next 48 hours to calm customers, vendors, developers, and channel partners. That statement will help us to understand what NI will be doing to ensure continuity. That is, that the business will continue operation, that the activation servers will continue to…Read More

Mo Volans, General Manager – Plugin Alliance & Brainworx at Plugin Alliance, stated in the Plugin Alliance Audiophiles group on Facebook on January 28, 2026:

“I will tell you what we have told our partners…

The key points:
As of today, Plugin Alliance entities are not part of the insolvency filing. Our operations in Langenfeld and the US r…Read More

I created a thread dedicated to Native Instruments insolvency and related updates in the Gear Discussion forum that I’m going to keep pinned across all of the forums throughout this process. I think NI is such a significant player to music producers that it’s important to keep everyone updated. So let’s centralize information and maintain it in…Read More

I popped in the web-site and the compressor looks very interesting, especially for a freebie.  I always hope people like this will be able to continue what they’re doing because it gives little guys a chance to get into music production without breaking the bank.

On January 28, 2026 at 4:35 am lamia6 said
Unlikely but interesting: IK Multimedia could buy Kontakt to replace SampleTank. (purely a thought only)

IK is a possibility. I didn’t mention them purely because of their company size being on the smaller side. But from customer and strategic perspectives, I think that IK could be a good place for…Read More

On January 28, 2026 at 10:10 am jude77 said
Peter, your insight into issues like these are invaluable to the rest of us. I had assumed that most of the major players (NI, VSL, OTS etc) were fairly large stable businesses.  More and more I’m starting to see that many are small and maybe only one person, or a small group of people.

As to the wh…

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Peter, your insight into issues like these are invaluable to the rest of us. I had assumed that most of the major players (NI, VSL, OTS etc) were fairly large stable businesses.  More and more I’m starting to see that many are small and maybe only one person, or a small group of people.

As to the whole Kontakt news, I wish NI would put out a…Read More

The other one nobody has mentioned that I want to stay as far away from NI is Music Tribe, for the obvious reason that it is run by Uli Behringer.

Unlikely but interesting: IK Multimedia could buy Kontakt to replace SampleTank. (purely a thought only)

Kontakt sample developer Ocean Swift has made a statement about the NI situation.

The transition to a sales promotion is a bit odd, but I would cut small, indie developers like them some slack. These are often one to a few people operations where the same person writing website copy is also creating sample libraries:

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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).

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Wouldn’t they go into competition with themselves if they bought NI, or even just Kontakt + NKS? They already own UVI.

Maybe they will split off their DJ Bra…Read More