Native Instruments statement on continued support for customers and partners - their first official statement since insolvency revelations.

https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency-statement/

@shye yeah, I don't think that exists at the moment -- maybe someone could imagine some way to construct it with something like HISE. https://hise.dev/

@antiquedigital @fabio oh, absolutely -- debts that were taken on by investors that are really independent of the operational success of the company and its employees, etc.

@SpotlightKyd yes, though the flipside is that Kontakt is probably the asset here that has the *most* assured future...

@FreakyFwoof @the_spc I missed that! Please link me!

@FreakyFwoof @the_spc Here's the unusual situation: because *so much* is owed to creditors, the future of these products is really secured. You have to sell it to pay the debts, and the insolvency process makes that happen.

I'm happy to remind would-be future owners of how important accessibility is to that value proposition.

@bntn Unfortunately, all assets are out of your hands in the insolvency proceedings, so you would not be able to open-source anything, no.

@antiquedigital @fabio Right, but if you're trying to do *that*, this is specifically what you *don't* want to happen -- because then you lose control of breaking up the company.

I'm the last person to be a fan of private equity, but this is actually worse -- and the role of private equity is typically to avoid this case. So this has a lot of people really shocked.

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency.

Not remotely what you want to see. Will keep tabs on this one in a tough time. Details:

https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/

With subscriptions back in the conversation, now is a good time to revisit Ableton's rent-to-own option. Unlike a subscription, you own a lifetime license at the end of a fixed number of payments. I went into this in some detail when it launched:

https://cdm.link/ableton-live-suite-rent-to-own/