Reply To: Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency

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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:

Native Instruments – preliminary insolvency

What This Means For Ocean Swift

Hello ocean drifters,

By now most of you must have heard the news that Native Instruments has entered preliminary insolvency.  Our friends at APD have a good article on the topic.

We are assessing the situation, getting in touch with our sources at NI, discussing plans and figuring out possible next steps.  Business wise, what is for certain is that a big hit is coming our way in the short term. There is a beautiful flagship NKS instrument in the style of Absynth from us, waiting in the wings scheduled for a February 12 release. It is unclear to us if it is happening from NI’s side, or if we even want it to happen considering the situation from our side.

What this means for you as of now:

All the NI related content is for now as usual, Native Access works as usual and you can download and activate.
Our presets business goes on as usual, there are amazing things for some of our favorite synth coming soon.
Our commitment to NKS continues, upcoming preset packs will be NKS compatible.
If it comes to that, we will come up with a plan to at least move our instruments to Kontakt full, as a last resort.

Boutique companies like Ocean Swift whose business has a strong dependency to Native Instruments are extremely vulnerable right now, and this thing can have a profound domino effect.

We need your support now more than ever.

We have created a mailing list only coupon that will grant you 50% off everything on site excluding only on-sale items.

Simply use OSMAYA at checkout to apply the discount to your entire cart. Valid until February 16.

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