Roughly 100 Native Instruments employees, including its whole customer support staff, have reportedly been laid off about ten weeks after inMusic completed its acquisition of the company, according to insider accounts first reported by Synth Anatomy.
Dirk Ulrich, the founder of Plugin Alliance and Brainworx, has reacquired both companies from inMusic effective July 15, 2026, folding them into his new RCKFRC Audio Group alongside Manley Labs and Apogee, per Sound on Sound.
inMusic laid off roughly 100 Native Instruments staff this week, including its entire support team, and days later Plugin Alliance and Brainworx founder Dirk Ulrich reacquired both companies outright through his new holding company RCKFRC.
Native Instruments has released Super*Saw, a 99 euro plugin built over two years with PC Music founder A.G. Cook that reworks the classic supersaw with dual 16-oscillator banks and an X/Y morph between four patch states.
After a debt-driven insolvency, Native Instruments has been sold to inMusic and iZotope carved out to Boris FX, splitting apart the plugins house and techno producers rely on.
Francisco Partners has exited Muse Group, the owner of Audacity and MuseScore, and instead of a new investor stepping in, the founder bought his way back to control with bank debt.
Elektron's free OS 1.55 brings a Euclidean sequencer, a Control All mode and loopable pattern pages to the Analog Four and Analog Keys, the first substantial update since Bonnier Capital bought the Gothenburg synth maker in April.
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