You've probably heard about this by now. I thought about it, how does this affect me? Didn't realize Native Instruments recently acquired: iZtope, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx. https://musictech.com/news/industry/native-instruments-preliminary-insolvency/ Let's talk about it.

I read there is meant to be a "student resources" in the Classroom tab but I can't see it. As in: **Discounts are in the Classroom Tab, under "Student Resources" Does anyone know if there is still a Student Resources section, if so where am I not looking? Thanks :)

NI doesn't apparently allow you to directly download the installers for offline installation or backup. In the event that Native Access stops working as part of the insolvency situation, I wanted a way to be able to re-install the software I purchased in the future. After a bit of research and testing, I came up with a fairly simple way to create backups of all your NI installers. For me it's just NI and iZotope stuff. I assume anything that uses Native Access would work too. I was a software engineer for 40+ years so I am fairly confident these will work, but use at your own risk... These steps require using a command window to run the "icacls" command to modify the permissions on a folder. If you aren't comfortable using the command line, then perhaps you should try to find a Plan B. 0) You need to be logged into Windows using an account with Administrator privileges 1) Create a special folder to store your NI installers. The default is "C:\Users\Public\Downloads". I created an "NI" folder in my user's "Downloads" folder (C:\Users\garry\Downloads\NI) to ensure that I was the owner of the new folder without inherited permissions getting in the way. For the purposes of these instructions, I will refer to the folder as your "NI" folder. 2) Launch Native Access 3) Click on the Preferences link in the bottom left corner 4) Click on the File Management link 5) Change the Download Location folder to be your new "NI" folder At this point, Native Access will download the EXE/ZIP files to your new NI folder. The problem is that Native Access cleans up after itself and deletes the files it downloaded. Our next step is to prevent Native Access from cleaning up by removing the ability to delete files in that folder. 6) Click on the Windows Start menu icon and search for "cmd" 7) Click on the "Run As Administrator" link. A black command window will open. 8) Enter the following command to prevent anyone from deleting anything in that folder: icacls "C:\Users\YourName\Downloads\NI" /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(DE,DC)"

Hey everyone! Is this common that you have to renew and pay for plug ins you have purchased from different providers? I’ve attached a photo of the Paz Analyser that we bought as part of Prod 101.

Native Instruments Gmbh are have entered insolvency proceedings. Other companies possibly affected include the wider group - iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx. The European Commission has apparently cleared a planned acquisition of the NI group by Bridgepoint and Bain Capital Credit, though it’s unclear whether the transaction has completed. I use plugins from all of these sources, they're great. Let's hope they survive .. https://mixmag.net/read/music-tech-company-native-instruments-enters-preliminary-insolvency-tech