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Native Instruments’ suite of music production software and gear, including Traktor and Kontakt, will soon live under the inMusic umbrella alongside other music tech brands like Akai Professional and Moog Music. As MusicRadar reports, Native Instruments CEO Nick Williams said the company was looking for a buyer in March, following news it had entered bankruptcy proceedings in Germany.
In a blog post announcing the deal, Williams called the acquisition a “fresh start,” meaning that for the company’s brands, “Native Instruments, iZotope, Plugin Alliance, Brainworx — all of it continues.”
The two companies have collaborated in the past, as inMusic’s press release on the acquisition states:
The acquisition builds on a strong and established relationship between the two companies. In 2025, inMusic and Native Instruments announced a landmark collaboration bringing NKS integration to Akai Pro’s MPK controllers, M-Audio’s Oxygen controllers, and Native Instruments’ sounds to the MPC standalone platform for the first time — a partnership that demonstrated the complementary strengths and shared values of both organisations.