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On 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 Kontakt to land. While IK doesn’t have a product with the kind of ecosystem Kontakt has (thousands of developers who create sample libraries for the platform), they have been in the space for a long time (I think I bought SampleTank before I purchased Kontakt back in the early 00s) and they have proven themselves as a serious player in the space. They’ve also proven themselves to be a good company from a customer support standpoint (yes, they’ve had their hiccups, but they’ve been committed to good customer support).

If Kontakt ended up with IK, I would be fine with that.With IK’s Pianoverse, the company proved that they could create a state of the art, detailed sample-based platform on par with Kontakt from a quality perspective, and their MODO instrument lines using physical modeling are also very impressive.

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