For those of you who have NI plugins and or hardware it sounds like NI maybe going bankrupt
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Yikes! (Hopefully will just restructure without creating a problem for users.)
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I hope so too! I have Komplete 14 and actually was considering buying their 88 key MK3 but I ended up buying the Studiologic SLMk3 instead
From a relevant story about this:
“This includes not only Native Instruments but also the parent companies iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx.”
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What a mess. Hopefully the insolvency administrator can find a good solution.
Maybe they bite off more than they can chew 
Unexpected for me.
Someone on NI’s forum said Native Access stopped working. I’ll check it out in a while and see if that’s the case.
Don’t give me a fright like that. Just ran it - it updated itself, and now it’s busy updating 26 of my libraries
Phew!
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The developer said don’t do any updates if you have any gigs coming up. 
Who knows when he’d be able to update next time 
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I updated them on my developer machine — I have not updated my live performance machine in probably 2 years
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A few weeks ago, I was unable to buy Absynth 6 from the Native Instruments shop. Support couldn’t help me either. It was a frustrating experience. I’m currently replacing the Native Instruments VSTs in my gig file. I don’t have any gigs coming up.
Interesting. I bitched at them fo not retro-including Absynth 6 in Ultimate Komplete but they didn’t care. Ended up buying it as an upgrade but I had no problems getting it
I couldn’t even pay, neither with PayPal nor with a credit card.
I still use Kontakt and some of the Scarbee libraries live, but I have, by and large, switched over to Arturia, Omnisphere/Keyscape, and a few Cherry Audio libraries. I got caught up in NI’s huge mistakes with their KORE technology years ago, so I am not surprised by this at all. Hell, they sunsetted their BEST plug (B4, a B3 emulation) a long time ago. Reaktor was cool, but there are way cooler things out there now. I do LOVE Native Instruments hardware, though (ok, really, it’s the Fatar actions I love, but the integration capability with Gig Performer is just FABULOUS). I have a Komplete Kontrol S49 and S61 and S88 Mk2, and another S61, Mk3. I will gig with them until MacOS no longer supports them, which will hopefully be 10 years or more!
I have my 80ish % sounds on Kontakt so if they ever buckle up and don’t provide a legit permanent activation for all of their products, I’ll instantly go Jack Sparrow. I have Komplete 15 Ultimate so that’s a lot of software, but for live use it’s only Kontakt (and a lot of 3rd party libraries) and FM8.
However, I think that Kontakt is a really valuable product and it will be maintained alive by whomever will buy it, if ever.