InMusic has allegedly shut down Native Instruments UKAfter acquiring Native Instruments in May 2026, InMusic has allegedly closed the brand’s UK office, putting its UK team members at risk of termination.
According to company filings in July, Native Instruments’ CEO, Nick Williams, has been removed, along with Simon Cross, the chief product and technology officer. InMusic Europe’s CEO, Richard Seymour, has seemingly replaced them.
The closure of the Native Instruments UK office may see the termination of positions including product manager, product designer, engineering manager, chief financial officer, VP global marketing, senior product designer, and senior product engineer. Many of these positions cover work on Maschine, Kontakt, and Komplete. The alleged cuts may also see the removal of Tim Adnitt, who is president of the MIDI Association and VP of product and sound design at Native Instruments.
The news first surfaced in a Reddit thread last week, which read: “The layoffs continue: InMusic just fired the whole native instruments UK office…What everyone already thought about InMusic turns out to be correct once again.”
In a statement issued to MusicTech, InMusic does not directly address claims on missed payments, but does acknowledge affected employees:
“As part of the ongoing integration of Native Instruments into the inMusic family of brands, we are simplifying our organisational and legal structure, including Native Instruments UK. This includes removing layers that were established to support a private equity ownership model, as well as streamlining other areas of the business to create a faster, more efficient organisation focused on innovation, customers, and long-term growth.
“We recognise the impact these changes have on affected employees and are committed to supporting them throughout the transition.
“Native Instruments remains a strategically important part of inMusic, and our commitment to the brand is unchanged. Product development continues at a strong pace, with major new hardware and software initiatives already underway for 2027 and beyond.”
Meanwhile, a number of new roles have appeared on InMusic’s career page, mostly based in Rhode Island, USA, and Cambridge, UK. These positions include content development engineer, lead product manager, lead product designer, and more product-focused responsibilities.
This mass layoff follows news from July that InMusic fired 100 employees across all departments at Native Instruments.
Upon acquiring Native Instruments, InMusic published a sit-down interview with its global CEO and founder, Jack O’Donnell. Within the first few seconds of the interview, Jack O’Donnell says: “The future for NI, I can assure you, is very exciting, very bright, and very secure.”

The news echoes InMusic’s decisions following its acquisition of Moog Music in June 2023. The brand’s original statement, which is no longer accessible via Moog’s website, claimed that, in acquiring Moog, it would “offer solutions to support the areas that have been ongoing challenges for our company as a small manufacturing business”. By late September 2023, InMusic had laid off 30 team members at Moog’s historic HQ in Asheville, North Carolina, and moved parts of its manufacturing pipeline to Taiwan. Moog has released two major synthesizers since then: Muse and Messenger,
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