I used Izotope products for a while without buying them, then I realized it was time to buy them. I also tried to get on their team, but it didn't work out for completely different reasons. It's very difficult to buy anything sold overseas in our country right now... I hope things change, because their products often save my job, and I don't like being in debt.

 

Team R2R fills exactly this gap created by import restrictions!

In Cuba, there is a person who smuggles in a USB stick from abroad containing films and documentaries and broadcasts them (pirate radio station)!

 

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This is the key portion of this info, but the key thing most users care about is this one: existing licenses and servers may or may not continue working/servers remaining online depending on what gets sold or shut down. We all like to think of the insolvency related actions they may take, like which make the most sense for a music business. Kill off old unused products, keep the ones with the most potential but maybe not with the most sales yet. But its main function is for maximizing returns to creditors, and so some of these decisions will not make obvious sense to those of us without access to internal data, but will be jumping off the pages at the administrator. They will likely try keeping the crown jewels of their IP. Their core products' engines and their DRM. Izotope will likely be fine but maybe sold to another owner like :cough: LANDR.
Who can even guess about Plugin Alliance? (besides the guy who dumped it).

 

When you think of what happened to Native People, the fate of Native Instruments looks even more bleak.

 

This guys knows what he's talking about, and he's not worried, which is also my stance; and I basically bought (almost) and own all the latest hardware they made, from KK S88 mk3 to Maschine mk3 (and it's amazing companion Jam), all the way to DJ Traktor S4, and of course most the soft eko-system side of NI...Really sank lots of money in that company, and most importantly time -our most precious asset- to get to know them inside out. At this point, I'm completely dependant on them. And I am not worried. My 2 cents anyway...No way they're going away, just won't happen. In fact, as everybody xis in panic mode and runs, I'll right the other way. Just like in stock exchange, it's time to buy at super bargain prices when everybody sells

Edit: sorry if this vid has been posted before, not possible to read through 10 pages of posts

 

It's better than the stock exchange, as long as the hardware we already have has working firmware and software that future computer operating systems don't wipe out. Only then, is there is a problem if keeping a cheap older computer around the OS can be downgraded on is not an option. The real risk is only the possibility of no new updates, or old projects where we only have the saved state of the plugin instances inside the DAW session files.

If you are trading shares *which you already have bought and paid for, the risk is they potentially go to essentially 0 and become worthless. If that happens, you can't fire up a torrent client and re-download a different version of your money.

 

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I've no idea about German insolvency laws or procedures so I won't comment on that.

However, I do have some insider experience with "restructuring" in the context of an audio/video software company.

Simply put, it's likely that people (entire teams) will be made redundant or laid off. This means that some products, currently in dev, will be hard hit, or killed. By killed I mean deprecated, with no further development or support. People who own it may still be able to download and authenticate the latest stable/released version - unless the physical servers are erased or destroyed.

I saw multitudes of developers being let go, and entire product lines even being shuttered - it was heartbreaking, not least for the user base. Imagine updating your DAW, and in v20, products that existed from v5-19 are gone. Vanished.

I've owned Komplete since version 5 or 6 (I kept the boxes), and kept on upgrading every other release until the pandemic. Komplete is bloated with genre specific libraries I've never used, and never plan on using.

It's not unlike those Korg, Roland, and Yamaha workstations that are filled to the brim with presets and samples that 80% of us will never use. But "the German market" this, the "UK market" that, the Italians, Latin, and US markets... all want their meat and potatoes.

My point is, Native Instruments could benefit from going lean a couple of years or more - there's plenty to feast on (for us). Question is, what will they feast on during those years?