Native Instruments and Abbey Road announce partnership

Here’s a rather unique partnership for ya! Native Instruments has announced a close partnership with Abbey Road with the intention to create software instruments scheduled for release in early 2010. Sounds intriguing if you ask me. Expect Kontakt and Kontakt Powered instruments recorded through the great Abbey Road gear of yesteryear.

Posted on 10 December by stiff
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  1. mmmhh sounds like a Beatles Guitar Sampling Library for Kontakt Player and a NI G-Rig Version of Eleven Rack.

    Anyway I´d be REALLY suprised if they don´t inlcude Drums and Guitars.

    By dyscode ~ December 11, 2009 kl 2:52 am

  2. interesting… lots of competition already in the samples department, though. reason + abbey road refill (which is officially licensed!), then there’s eastwest’s fab four which is ‘unlicensed’ but recorded by Ken Scott so the pedigree is there anyway. i dumped reason quite some time ago though so getting some of those instruments in a kontakt form might be welcome, but it depends how different it is from fab four (which is really, really excellent if you need those sorts of sounds.)

    By terminal3 ~ December 11, 2009 kl 8:09 am

  3. The two companies may want to leverage each others’ strengths in the mixing/mastering area by NI bringing the AR skills, assets and gems to the market in higher volumes, at lower prices and with the effective packaging from and synergy with NI’s Kore2 and Komplete products. NI can get a nice mastering addition to their offering, and NI’s distribution channel will bring more value to AR than it would to the likes of IK Multimedia or izotope who are already well established in this space. See my blog for more detail: http://bit.ly/76nvGz

    By Kim Jasper ~ December 11, 2009 kl 7:07 pm

  4. Abbey Road and the Beatles are different things. People seem to confuse the two.

    By Chad ~ December 13, 2009 kl 3:28 am

  5. @Chad – the Beatles angle is probably 80% of the Abbey Road mystique, so unfortunately for some, they will forever be entwined. How often have you seen Abbey Road hardware (or ‘licensed software’ :) ) NOT say ‘as used on Beatles’ recordings!’ ?

    By terminal3 ~ December 15, 2009 kl 8:06 am

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