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(1) Francisco Partners to invest significantly in Native Instruments, the Berlin-based global leader in digital music creation software and hardware, acquiring a majority shareholding from EMH Partners and the Founding Shareholders, with both remaining significant minority shareholders This investment is meant to continue Native Instruments' strong thought leadership in digital music creation and expand the company's product offering to create the end-to-end user centric platform for the music creation industry With the support and investment from Francisco Partners, EMH Partners and the Foun...

Native Instruments Maschine+ Is the Maschine+ the standalone music‑making box you’ve always dreamed of? The arms race of beat production workstations has come full circle. In 2009 the first Maschine took cues from Akai Pro’s MPCs, but by moving all the hard work to an attached computer NI opened up the scope of what was possible. Maschine had access to processing power and plug‑ins, and could slot into the DAWs that had become the primary workspace for many producers. Akai found themselves on the back foot, and the previous year’s Renaissance was to be the last of the classic standa...

Spitfire Audio Releases DRUMLINE Spitfire Audio tells us that they have worked with world champion drum corps The Blue Devils to create the essential cinematic ingredients of their latest ORIGINALS library, DRUMLINE. This is their press release in full... Spitfire Audio is proud to announce availability of DRUMLINE -- the eighth release in its ongoing ORIGINALS series of instant library tools with the same outstanding recording quality as the 'full-blown' blue-chip libraries with which it has built its reputation, simplified and presented in its free, easy-to-use plug-in, this time collabo...

Daryl Worthington , December 18th, 2020 09:21 Daryl Worthington brings the year in cassettes to a close, with 2020’s best tapes, and the year’s best tape label Mariam Rezaei What’s the point of releasing music on cassette in 2020? It’s a dated format and surely we could all be doing something better with our time in a year marked by tragedy. Clearly spouting off nonsense about better art being made in times of adversity isn’t the answer. It’s inaccurate, a gross disservice to those suffering, and a privileged misunderstanding of the reality that for many adversity didn’t come ...