Native Instruments going bankrupt!

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lscottk

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I’ve always thought they do well considering the prices they ask for their products ?

I’d love to get their kontakt 15 ultimate at a discount… definitely would be inspiring if I get my hands on it as a musical playground / deep nose dive into songwriting

Anyone tried their music production bundles along with their keyboards? What’s your experience with them?
 
ApocalypticKatana said:
I’ve always thought they do well considering the prices they ask for their products ?
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Reminds me of an old joke about a farmer market where everybody was selling pigs for one dollar, just one farmer selling for 50.

"Why so expensive", someone asks

"Need money badly", answers the farmer

On a more serious note, they went for the acquisition spree, those rarely go well, especially given little synergy with what they do.
 
Wow. They've "acquired music brands including iZotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance". That's a sizable crater they're leaving if they just fold. Personally i own a fair ton of PA stuff, some BWX, and a little IZ too.

Makes me only want to want hardware, but even that needs support sometimes.

Kind of a bummer.
 
Dave Merrill said:
Wow. They've "acquired music brands including iZotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance". That's a sizable crater they're leaving if they just fold. Personally i own a fair ton of PA stuff, some BWX, and a little IZ too.
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I don't care much for those but would hate to see NKS go, those are like the only usable midi keyboards/controllers for someone like me who needs to do that stuff only occasionally.
 
Yeah, I have NI Komplete, Izotope Everything bundle, and most of the Plugin-Alliance plugins. I stopped buying Izotope and PA because of their (IMHO) misleading "sales" and shitty upgrade paths. I'll be sad if NI's bankruptcy results in loss of support for their products. But their business practices were pretty awful (once again IMHO). Anyone who struggled with using Native Access knows how poorly of a job their developers did. In the last few months things finally became usable, but for a long time, their product management tools sucked big time.
 
I have software from all of the above, and I hope we're able to continue using it. I also have software from other vendors that use NA interfaces. For hardware, I have Maschine Mikro. I purchased a Kontrol S88 Mk3 keyboard controller, which played great, but would not do the initial firmware update. I tried all the suggestions in the help documents on Native Instruments' website and contacted their customer support for assistance, and they were very helpful; but nothing we tried worked. I sent it back to Sweetwater and got a Studiologic SL88 Grand, which I really like.
 
Yeah, they botched the release of the MkIII series keyboard controllers. Lots of issues from the start. I have a MkII S61, which works great for my needs. Due to widely reported problems I was never inclined to upgrade to a Mk III.
 
MkII has had its own share of issues

In general their hardware isn’t supported all that well

But I’ve been willing to give them a pass for a lot of things because of NKS. Mapping stuff manually to plugin controls is a huge pain in the butt for me - I’ve only used keyboards occasionally, to create some backing tracks, with quite a wide variety of sounds, and don’t really know any of the plugins I’ve used all that well.
 
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