KVR Audio

kropotkin303 · Post by **kropotkin303** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 6:28 pm

Quite a few reaktor synths and effects on the user library by Bolle are what i guess i would call reskins. They are larger crisp and more modern looking. Sorry don't know how to post pictures.

Sound Author · Post by **Sound Author** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:36 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 6:58 am Redoing literally the whole UI of Reaktor would be years. Allowing just the ensemble front panels to connect to a different UI toolkit that allows HiDPI graphics etc (which is exactly what was done in Kontakt already) would be an easier undertaking. So, the actual building part of Reaktor would stay the same, but the user facing edit part would be spruced up.

Sounds good to me!

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri Jan 16, 2026 9:46 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 6:58 am Redoing literally the whole UI of Reaktor would be years. Allowing just the ensemble front panels to connect to a different UI toolkit that allows HiDPI graphics etc (which is exactly what was done in Kontakt already) would be an easier undertaking. So, the actual building part of Reaktor would stay the same, but the user facing edit part would be spruced up.

I always figured this is what people meant when they want reaktor to have a "modern GUI". I'm fine with old GUIs myself. For editing and panels. I'd rather not have to take into account my GPU when making music.

jrwaltb · Post by **jrwaltb** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 1:59 am

oobesan wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2025 5:31 am According to Benn Jordan, NI isn't owned by Francisco Partners any more. He says they defaulted on the loan, and the bank who loaned them the money packaged it up along with a bunch of other trash and sold it off for pennies on the dollar to yet another private equity group not named. So, if he is right, NI is a bit adrift at the moment...

Wow, the only thing in any NI thread I have read recently that actually makes sense. Hopefully one day they teach the NI saga in colleges around the world, unreal loss of IP.

Sound Author · Post by **Sound Author** » Wed Jan 28, 2026 10:52 pm

oobesan wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2025 5:31 am According to Benn Jordan, NI isn't owned by Francisco Partners any more. He says they defaulted on the loan, and the bank who loaned them the money packaged it up along with a bunch of other trash and sold it off for pennies on the dollar to yet another private equity group not named. So, if he is right, NI is a bit adrift at the moment...

That sounds like the Bridgepoint/Bain deal that was in place last December but was apparently never completed for reasons no one really knows. I'm not an expert in these things, but yeah, Native Instruments apparently had negotiated an acquisition with UK-based private equity firm Bridgepoint Group Holdings Limited and US creditor Bain Capital...and either one or more parties pulled out or something else happened, but regardless, it was never finalized.

Who knows, maybe the deal is still in place and the insolvency proceedings just temporarily postponed the acquisition, but I've heard people who at least claim to be legal experts characterize the Bridgepoint/Bain deal as having "fallen through".

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:46 am

I think we know the future of Reaktor now, as in it doesn't have one.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:50 am

Well, not necessarily.

enCiphered · Post by **enCiphered** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:53 am

wagtunes wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:46 am I think we know the future of Reaktor now, as in it doesn't have one.

I’m pretty sure Reaktor will get a worthy successor at some point. Even if NI lets it stagnate, the underlying idea of a modular DSP sandbox is too important to disappear.

0degree · Post by **0degree** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:36 am

enCiphered wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:53 am
wagtunes wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:46 am I think we know the future of Reaktor now, as in it doesn't have one.
I’m pretty sure Reaktor will get a worthy successor at some point. Even if NI lets it stagnate, the underlying idea of a modular DSP sandbox is too important to disappear.

But all this amazing work of NI Reaktor library will be gone

Is there any way to bulk download it ?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:37 am

None that I know of.

0degree · Post by **0degree** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 12:05 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:37 am None that I know of.

Damn, thanks ED

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 3:43 pm

Actually... in discussion with a friend we found a way to scrape the Reaktor user library for all 6000+ download links and pasted them into txt files by category/subcategory. Using DownThemAll! extension for your browser, it's possible to import each individual .txt file and just let it rip through the list!

oobesan · Post by **oobesan** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 4:19 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:37 am None that I know of.

Of course there is. If someone can bulk download all of Spotify, someone could bulk download Reaktor User Library.

Edit: scratch that. Didn't see your follow up post

enCiphered · Post by **enCiphered** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 4:33 pm

oobesan wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 4:19 pm Of course there is. If someone can bulk download all of Spotify

You mean ALL 100 million+ tracks?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jan 29, 2026 4:37 pm

I can provide all the scraped download links, the thing is huge. I'm halfways through and it's already about 40 GB of content.

The future of Reaktor