Brand

Native Instruments

Native Instruments is a music technology brand known for software instruments, effects, and hardware designed for modern music production and performance. The company is especially recognised for its virtual instruments, sample libraries, and creative tools used across electronic, hip-hop, film scoring, and contemporary music.

Native Instruments products are widely used in studios and live setups, offering deep sound design capabilities alongside flexible control and integration. The brand appeals to producers and musicians who want powerful creative tools, intuitive workflows, and a strong connection between software and hardware environments.

Category

Drum Machines

Discover hardware drum machines and rhythm instruments for programming beats, shaping electronic percussion and performing live. Models may use analogue circuits, digital samples, synthesis or a combination of methods. Compare pattern length, sequencing controls, individual outputs, effects, sampling and MIDI or clock synchronisation to choose the right centrepiece for a studio or live setup.

Tags

Analog

Products using analogue sound-generation or signal-processing circuitry, also commonly written as analog. Analogue instruments shape continuously varying electrical signals and are often chosen for direct controls, natural variation and a character that responds organically to performance and modulation.

Digital

Products using digital sound generation, processing or control. Digital instruments can offer precise recall, extensive polyphony, sampling and complex synthesis methods, often combining a wide tonal range with compact hardware and flexible modulation.

Drum Machine

Hardware designed for creating and sequencing electronic drum and percussion patterns. Tagged products may generate sounds through analogue circuitry, digital synthesis, samples or a hybrid design, with different approaches to programming and performance.

Groovebox

Self-contained electronic instruments designed for building patterns, beats and complete musical ideas. Grooveboxes usually combine a sequencer with drums, synthesis or sampling so that music can be created and performed with little or no reliance on a computer.

Sampler

Products that record, load, manipulate or perform with sampled audio. This includes compact sample players and more advanced production instruments with editing, sequencing, effects and storage for creating kits, loops, textures and complete arrangements.