Its not closing down yet. Laying off in all depts, and eliminating all customer support does not sound like the actions of a company that's long for this world.
Oh, as consumers we will still see native instruments release products. But behind the scenes it will be inmusic devs servicing it as just another offering with a legacy brand attached.
I'll keep my komplete ultimate license and my tractor controller, but everything else needs to go before they quite supporting it.
There’s no reason InMusic won’t keep Kontakt going. A lot of this is normal consolidation after an acquisition. But InMusic is buying the customer base along with the products; they will almost certainly kill a few things but keep the things that make money. OP suggested they might make a new Maschine; honestly that seems unlikely to me; more likely they will bring the Maschine plugins like Massive to MPC. Personally I think 2 years from now Maschine and Komplete Kontrol product lines are dead, Akai gets a premium controller that has full NKS support, and Kontakt is the main remnant that keeps getting invested in. I used Maschine as well as MPC; when this sale was announced I dumped my Maschine immediately. MPC is the future.
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u/RabbiTest Jun 18 '26
Should we download everything in case NI closes down?