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Serum 2, Pigments 6, Phase Plant, Vital and Massive X: The ultimate soft synth showdown

As Serum 2 shakes up the competition, we pit five of the most powerful, flexible and full-featured synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on top in 2025

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Arturia embraces NKS - and offers hardware owners free access to Native Instruments' Komplete 15 Select

Superbooth 25: With KeyLab mk3, KeyLab Essential mk3, and MiniLab soon able to browse NKS libraries, is the sound-tagging format now too big to fail?

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“I’m looking forward to breaking it in on stage”: Mustard will be headlining at Coachella tonight with a very exclusive Native Instruments Maschine MK3, and there’s custom yellow Kontrol S49 MIDI keyboard, too

Only two of each have been made, and you could win the others

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Native Instruments’ Kontrol S MK3 MIDI keyboards just added several features that DAWless music producers have been asking for

You now have an arpeggiator in standalone mode and you can use the USB and 5-pin MIDI ports simultaneously

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Native Instruments updates Maschine software to 3.1 adding user chords, fullscreen mode, and clarifies compatibility

Maschine has been expanding in all directions recently with not all users feeling the benefit. Now 3.1 aims to clear the way

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Bored of the same old analogue emulations? Try these 5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently

Unconventional and creatively inspiring, these soft synths are pushing synthesis in bold new directions

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If you own any of these MIDI controllers from Akai, Korg, Novation, Nektar and M-Audio, you can have Native Instruments Komplete 15 Select for free

Native Instruments' NKS Hardware Partner Program launches today, bringing NKS compatibility to owners of a handful of its competitors' MIDI controllers

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Native Instruments heads east for Scene: Lotus, its latest cinematic instrument

Designed for producing, stunning, project-ready sounds fast, NI’s Scenes just got a Japanese-inspired new addition

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“The crown jewel of grand pianos”: Native Instruments’ Claire: Avant creates avant-garde soundscapes out of the world's largest grand piano currently in production

Channel your inner John Cage with a new Kontakt instrument that reimagines the sounds of the 10-foot Fazioli F308

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"We’ve heard your frustrations": Native Instruments responds to customer concerns, announcing Maschine 3, Kontakt 8 support and Play Series instruments for Maschine+

"We want to reinforce our strong commitment to Maschine", reads the company's post on its community forum

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Unexpected collabs, Behringer surprises and more: The biggest music tech stories of NAMM 2025

We round up NAMM 2025's best new synths, controllers, studio gear and more

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NAMM 2025: "This is the beginning of a really long journey": Native Instruments teams up with Akai, Korg, Novation and more to "empower millions of music creators"

Native Instruments is expanding NKS integration to its competitors' controllers and making its software and sounds available on the Akai MPC platform

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NAMM 2025 as it happened: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show

All the hottest new guitars, synths, drums and other gear from Anaheim 2025

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"The crown jewel of grand pianos": Native Instruments' Claire captures the sound of the world's largest grand piano in production

This new Kontakt instrument is based on meticulously recorded samples of a "world-class" 10-foot Fazioli concert grand

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“All subscription models are from Satan and there is a special place in hell for those people in charge that went for this business model”: Are music software subscriptions really as bad as some people say?

“I think the dislike of subscriptions is almost universal”

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“Musicians that have invested in the platform over the years deserve more than this”: Maschine 3.0 software review

NI’s beat-maker gets its first full upgrade in 11 years adding stem separation, a new sound library and… not much else

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Native Instruments discontinues Maschine MK1 and MK2, but new Maschine software is on the way - with stem separation and more

Could Maschine MK4 be around the corner?

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Native Instruments launches Komplete 15 and Kontakt 8 with its "biggest update ever": here's everything you need to know

NI updates its flagship mega-bundle of music software with a broad variety of new instruments, effects and sounds and an upgraded version of Kontakt

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Native Instruments announces Komplete 15 and Kontakt 8 - and we've got an exclusive glimpse of what's to come

Pre-order Komplete 15 now in advance of the launch on September 23 and get iZotope's Neutron 4 mixing suite for free

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An electric state of mind: Alicia Keys' Electric Keys take the virtual stage

Native Instruments releases follow-up to Keys' acoustic virtual instrument, based on 'meticulous' sampling of Grammy winners' CP70 Electric Grand

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Could Traktor Pro 4 put Native Instruments back at the top of the DJ software game?

Traktor just received a huge update, bringing stem separation, flexible beatgrids, Pattern Player and Ozone Maximizer to NI's flagship DJ platform

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"We’ve never had it so easy": 5 ways music gear has improved over the years... and 5 it hasn't

We take stock of the progress that's been made in modern music technology - and consider where there might be room for improvement

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Best MIDI keyboards to kickstart your home music production

MIDI keyboards to take control of your music-making

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How to make country-style EDM like Avicii

Time to buckle up and get on your horse as we look at some methods of making country-style EDM

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"One of the largest collections ofmusic production software in the world": Native Instruments unveils NI 360 subscription platform

NI scraps Komplete Now and launches three-tier subscription service for Komplete content and plugins from NI, iZotope, Brainworx

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