Native Instruments Archives

Native Instruments standalone groovebox Maschine+ available for pre-order

09 Sep in Studio

The standalone Maschine dream has finally come true with the announcement of Maschine+: NI's first standalone groovebox. Quite a follow-up to Komplete 13!

Heavyocity Damage 2: A massive sequel delivers even more bonkers percussion!

03 Aug in Deals, Studio

The ultimate in mangled drum sounds, Damage 2 has arrived with nearly 60GB of oversized drums, ethnic percussion, found objects and elaborate effects!

Native Instruments helps out with new Community Drive sound pack

15 Jul in Studio

The new Community Drive sound pack from Native Instruments has contributions from 14 top artists and producers, and aims to raise funds for musicians affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

NI Komplete 12 Ultimate Collectors Edition

Save big on NI Komplete 12 updates and upgrades at Thomann

29 May in Deals, Studio

Until 30 June 2020, Thomann is selling updates and upgrades to Native Instruments Komplete 12 / Komplete 12 Ultimate suite at significant discounts. Grab 'em while they're hot.

NI Maschine to become “start to finish” production gear in next updates

05 Mar in Studio

A future Maschine 2.10 update will provide major workflow enhancements, NI says on its forum, making Maschine an end-to-end music creation solution. Not surprisingly, user reaction is positive...

macOS Catalina will break most of your music apps and equipment on its launch

11 Sep 2019 in Studio

When it's launched this October, macOS Catalina will break your music apps and equipment while doubling down on those annoying security prompts. Fun times ahead, then!

Eventide Blackhole extraterrestrial reverb now offers full NKS integration

18 Apr 2018 in Studio

Grab hold of your Komplete Kontrol keyboard with both hands and journey through the Blackhole of extraterrestrial reverberation with Eventides awesome plug-in now compatible with NKS 2.0

Cloudlab 200t Buchla based modular instrument for Reaktor reaches version 2

13 Mar 2018 in Synths

Trevor Gavilan releases a new version of Cloudlab 200t Buchla ensemble for Reaktor 6. It's still free, it's even more remarkable and a fabulous way to get your West Coast thing going.

NAMM 2018: Native Instruments open up NKS to effects plug-ins

26 Jan 2018 in Studio

NKS took one step closer to being a "standard" by supporting effects plug-ins for the first time. Native Instruments also hosted their first Native Summit to talk about the future of sound.

Native Instruments get a shed load of money and plan to take over the world

21 Oct 2017 in Other

Native Instruments receive a €50 Million investment and plan to empower, diversify and develop intuitive and powerful products. Or they could buy a small island somewhere and start an evil empire.

Apple MacOS 10.13 High Sierra - should I update?

MacOS High Sierra 10.13: Should you update?

26 Sep 2017 in Other

Apple has just published a new update to OSX - but should you update right away? We checked out a few apps and called the most important software developers. Find out here if your software is supported.

Blinksonic Processorz: free performance remix effects for Reaktor Blocks

28 Mar 2017 in Synths

If you own Reaktor Blocks then prepare to lose a couple of hours playing with Processorz, a free remix effects processor that's too much fun.

SLOW from Tim Exile is a reverb for sloths

05 Oct 2016 in Studio

I Picked up my guitar and now I'm drifting off into some kind of other worldly place of mesmeric paradise - SLOW is a really very long reverb by Tim Exile.