Native Instruments in Preliminary Insolvency

[BenIfin]

Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency

An administrator has been appointed for the brand behind the likes of Maschine, Traktor, Massive and Kontakt, according to reports

www.musicradar.com

Apologies if this has already been posted or in the wrong forum.

 

[AlbertA]

3rd time :)

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Tuesday at 6:20 PM

Crap. Does this mean Izotope is in the shitter too? Hope not. ozone is awesome.

• paisleywookiee

I'm sure the mods will merge all of these.

 

[FractalAudio]

All the talent left. There's nothing left for the PE firm to cannibalize. Usually these PE companies load a company up with debt and then pay themselves huge consulting fees. Eventually the company collapses and the creditors are left holding the proverbial bag while the PE guys smoke cigars on their new yachts.

This is just a formality to officially stick it to the creditors.

 

[dean701]

Awful news. Between plugin alliance, izotope and NI, there are some stand out plug ins.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Damn I forgot they bought Izotope and PA/Brainworx. I don’t think I’ve ever actually given NI money directly, but I use stuff from those other brands all the time.

 

[mikah912]

Awful news. Between plugin alliance, izotope and NI, there are some stand out plug ins.

Yeah, I'm kinda sweating the massive amount of orchestral and synth VSTs that I have integrated into Kontakt.....

 

[FuzzyAce]

I didn't realize they owned PA and Brainworx too.

 

[Frodebro]

I've been running NI plugs almost exclusively for years, this really sucks.

 

[Elf]

Bummer! I use Izotope Tonal Balance Control to check my mixes

 

[ian_dissonance]

Bummer! I use Izotope Tonal Balance Control to check my mixes

Neutron and its various modules are all over my stuff, along with the PA Purple 76 and a bunch of BX utility FX. Hopefully they can part it back out so those companies can continue.

 

[aivoryuk]

Will be interesting how this might impact all the companies that create instrument libraries for Kontakt.

 

[ax84ch]

is this where the rental software starts to die?

 

[MirrorProfiles]

IIRC, Izotope are/were based not far from Fractal (presumably in some part by MIT being local too). Shame if their talent has gone as they developed some very cool stuff in their time.

 

[ian_dissonance]

IIRC, Izotope are/were based not far from Fractal (presumably in some part by MIT being local too). Shame if their talent has gone as they developed some very cool stuff in their time.

The RX stuff is kind of industry standard for what it does at this point, it seems.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

The RX stuff is kind of industry standard for what it does at this point, it seems.

Yep, although Spectralayers (and others) have caught up a lot and there’s not a great deal in it these days tbh. I use RX advanced basically every day and it’s amazing. There’s some papers online of Izotopes IRC processing from ozone that are quite an interesting read.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Will be interesting how this might impact all the companies that create instrument libraries for Kontakt.

If they start making standalones I might buy some of them. A $30 plugin isn’t much of a deal if you need a $500 piece of software to use it.