There are moments in electronic music history that force us to confront uncomfortable realities about the infrastructure we’ve built our creative lives upon. The news that Native Instruments has entered pre-insolvency proceedings in Germany is one of those moments, a seismic tremor felt across studios, bedrooms and performance spaces worldwide.
For anyone who’s spent the last quarter-century making electronic music, Native Instruments isn’t just a brand. It’s the architecture of modern production. Massive, Kontakt, Reaktor, Maschine, Traktor, the entire Komplete ecosystem: these aren’t simply tools, they’re the…




