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

@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

On January 27, 2026 at 11:10 am fretman said
I’m still a heavy iZotope user, but their current upgrade pricing has caused me to stop buying. Not sure what I think about this…

I stopped buying Izotope after they discontinued my bundle and I had everything in another bundle — and more — and they refused to offer me upgrade pricing. I had adv…Read More