With this in mind, the team opted for a deliberately broad and inclusive approach that would showcase Native’s evolution as a company. But BATTERY inspired me to think different, and helped me get out of that box.” You might have the biggest synth nerd ever behind some of the hardest hip hop drums, and that’s because of NI making these sounds accessible to the masses.” Adams draws a parallel here with a change in his own workflow: “I used to strictly sample vinyl and keyboards, and would have been stuck in a box back in the day. “But in today’s world, everything is a hodgepodge. For Adams, a key component of the process was relinquishing the concept of genre loyalty in favor of inspiration and innovation: “20 years ago, hip hop was ‘you can’t use that synth because that’s some house shit’ and EDM was ‘you can’t use those drums,’” Adams says. When it came time to create sounds for the instrument, we tapped US Sound Design lead, Justin Adams, and his Berlin counterpart, Antonio de Spirt, for a transatlantic collaboration that sought to fuse LA’s predilection for hip hop and pop with Berlin’s electronic roots. And thus, the concept for TWENTY FIVE was born.
Looking back on two and-a-half decades of subsequent innovation, we had a strong desire to pay homage to some of our sonic milestones while also celebrating the future-forward philosophy that inspired them. Though relatively simple by today’s standards, it ultimately paved the way for the revolutionary REAKTOR, and – a quarter century of seminal sounds later – dynamic, next-generation synthesizers like MASSIVE X.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE WHITE SOFTWARE
25 years ago, we unveiled GENERATOR, a groundbreaking software modular synth in a graphical interface that empowered sound designers to build entirely new instruments of their own. To truly understand this unique instrument, we have to go back to the beginning. But the really interesting bit is that it allows you to pair up two of these sound sources at a time, and sculpt them into something entirely new with powerful FX and sequencing – it’s near-limitless retro-future fun.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE WHITE GENERATOR
Packed with iconic sounds from 1996-2021, the instrument features exhilarating hand-picked presets that span the entire NI portfolio from GENERATOR to MASSIVE X. In celebration of our 25th anniversary, we’re giving you TWENTY FIVE – a free, limited-edition Play Series instrument that lets future generations revisit and reimagine our sonic legacy.
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