NI layoffs & restructuring

[musicman691]

I know we have a lot of NI users here from Kontakt to Massive to Maschine and thought this pair of links would be of interest to people.
From Create Digital Music:
https://cdm.link/2019/09/native-instruments-cuts/

and from Music Radar:
https://www.musicradar.com/news/nati...ified-platform

I know there was a posting over on GS about a 50% layoff and that that's what was holding up Unfiltered Audio's Lion synth from being released due to not getting the NKS bits signed off on. Reading these articles suggest things are much deeper than that.

A new platform? Scary. And there are still bugs in Kontakt 6 that aren't getting fixed even though NI has acknowledged they exist. Couple this with the botched rollout of Massive X and one can see things aren't that rosy. Really - what other sampler engine has as deep offerings from third party developers as those that run on Kontakt? UVI doesn't begin to come close that I can see. And neither does the EW Play engine.