Native Instruments shipped Maschine 3.7, a free update adding a Euclidean Sequencer, a Random Note Generator and per-note probability, on September 23, 2026, its first major Maschine release since inMusic acquired the company.
inMusic has shut down Native Instruments' entire UK office and removed CEO Nick Williams and CTO Simon Cross, three weeks after cutting the company's whole support team.
inMusic, the corporate owner of [[label:moog-music|Moog Music]], has handed its entire internal Bob Moog archive, 4,489 schematics, prototypes, service files and personal letters, over to the nonprofit [[label:bob-moog-foundation|Bob Moog Foundation]], which will digitize and open the collection to the public.
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.
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.
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