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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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 -…

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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).

Excellent point.