Native Instruments

Browse Native Instruments vintage synthesizer equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Models

Drum Machines

Battery — Native Instruments Battery software drum sampler, reviewed by EQ in 2002 and 2005; little documented beyond period press.
Battery 2 — Native Instruments Battery 2 (2005) — $229 drum sampler with a customizable 9-to-72-cell grid, 256-voice polyphony, and per-cell filters.

Samplers

Kontakt — Native Instruments Kontakt software sampler — documented through period reviews of Kontakt 2, 3, and 5, spanning 2005 to 2013.
Kontakt 2 — Native Instruments Kontakt 2, the 2005 software sampler update — surround support, convolution reverb, and improved workflow, per period reviews.

Synthesizers

FM7 — Native Instruments FM7 — an early-2000s software FM synthesizer with DX-series compatibility, documented in Sound on Sound and Mix through 2005.