Native Instruments Gets €50 Million Outside Investment To ‘Unlock The Future Of Music Creation’

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  1. mmx

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    Berlin-based Native Instruments has announced a €50 million investment from private equity firm EMH Partners.

    NI says that the funds will be used to accelerate international growth, as well as the development of new digital services, and ‘to unlock the future of music creation for all music lovers’.

    NI released a statement with the news:

    Over the past 12 months the company has made key hires in Berlin and Los Angeles, including the former CEO of Beatport, Matthew Adell. These specialized teams have commenced development of new digital services, designed to redefine the landscape of music creation and the surrounding industry over the next year.

    Technology has democratized music making over the past two decades; what was once held exclusively by recording studios is now available at home. However, Native Instruments believes the market potential for music creation remains untapped; and there is a huge opportunity to improve the experience for the current market.

    The company plans to unlock the future of music creation for all music lovers.

    “Native Instruments has written a remarkable success story since its foundation over 20 years ago, and we are now ready for the next chapter,” said Daniel Haver, CEO of Native Instruments. “By developing intuitive and powerful products we’ve empowered music creators globally to further realize their potential. Today we’re seeing demand from increasingly diverse market segments, which opens enormous potential for growth. With EMH Partners we have a strong partner at our side to exploit this potential.

    Mate Galic, CTO and President added “We believe music creation products and services should be integrated in a more appealing, intuitive and cohesive way. We foresee an easily accessible music creation ecosystem that connects user centric design, with powerful technology and data, to further enable the music creators of today, and welcome the new creators of tomorrow.”

    To help realize this vision, Native Instruments is engaging in a global recruitment drive to hire the world’s leading technology talent in Berlin, Los Angeles and London, and expects to announce more detailed plans in early 2018.

    EMH Partners is a European private equity firm, with offices in Munich and London.

    26.10.2017

    Whats you mean about that ‘Unlock The Future Of Music Creation’?
     
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  3. LALALA

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    I hope with the money they'll finally make Kontakt 6 and Battery 5.
     
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    You think we need that though??
     
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  5. Thankful

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    I can foresee NI doing sites like Soundcloud meets Facebook that have all the tech on them to directly create your tracks and have it online in seconds, with ebay/Amazon style instant marketing for very cheap per track. But if many of us are already shunning the Adobe CC and Miscrosoft 'cloud' model...?
     
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  6. LALALA

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    U think we don't?
     
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  7. phloopy

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    Any chance you could provide a link to this?
     
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    Sounds to me like NI is entering the DAW market.
     
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    EUR 50m is a heck of a lot to try and make back in this game in my view!
     
  11. samotest

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    Of course we do. Kontakt is pretty much the only decent,yet somewhat simple to use, sampler outside of Ableton's Sampler and Simpler. It needs some updates tho. And Battery...well if they add a goddamn undo option, maybe it will finally be useful...
     
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    50€ m. ?

    hello, N.I., any giveaways to celebrate this ? :bleh:
     
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    We obviously need a new forum called "The no news news".
    You didn't say anything I could refer to. The only thing you said is "Be thy told, there will be something big soon" :guru:.

    Great, man, congrats. That's what I'm telling my girlfriend every night we go to bed. Luckily enough only in your case the answer is "Who cares?" (about this kind of "statement").
     
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  14. Caldera

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    I sincerely hope that they will build a complete new audio engine because the current engines sound overcompressed and too digital.
     
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    mmx created an account just to tell us this?
     
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    I dont know i was looking to hear from you why you think we need new versions? I'm guessing you just want new design changes?
     
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    Yes but mention to me what you want in a new kontakt, everyone wants new things when the old thing is already working like it needs to. Sometimes things get boring i get it, but you say it needs updates, give me one good thing kontakt really needs? Battery i never really use so not much care for me there..
     
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    Kontakt needs to lose Native Access.
    Battery needs a sequencer.
    And computer keyboard MIDI.

    Both these things but not really.
     
  19. LALALA

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    Disagree.
    Kontakt needs to be "Falcon like". To be more scpecific, it should be something like "K6=K5+Falcon"

    About Battery.
    1)To add a seq will be a big mistake. B4 is a great "Electronic" Drum/Percussion Sampler. No more, no less.
    2)I hope B5 will be much more lighter in GUI and loading cases. Who need those glittering and shining cell? I don't. It's the tool, it should loading/opening stuff as fast as possible.
    3)Also it would be great to have an ability to take samples from monolith kits.

    And there are dozens of other little things, which could/should be fixed/added.
     
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  20. Pinkman

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    So Kontakt need to be like Reaktor and Battery needs to stay the same..?
     
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    Nope. They should became to be a better versions of themselves
     
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