Native Instruments, beside abusing of K letters in their product name, knows a thing or two about virtual instruments, I'm sure we can agree on that. Now, NI announced they've been working not only on some hardware, but:

- A universal controller for all your plug-ins.
- A universal VST and AU host on your computer (unified interface of plug-ins on the computer), itself a stand-alone or a plug-in.
- A universal sound database within the host (find your sound by attribute, and don't care if it's in a virtual sampler or a virtual synth or whatever).
- A unified file format, KoreSound, to store layers, routing, configuration and categorization data.

Kore will be connected thru USB2 and will use high-resolution, touch-sensitive knobs and 'Organic LED' (OLED) display. it'll be an audio interface too! Kore comes equipped with categorization data for each of the over 11.000 preset sounds of all NI software instruments and sound libraries, making it a powerful framework for the NI KOMPLETE 3 bundle. Imagine this on use for sound designers?

Full technical specs, pricing and availability will be advertised in spring 2006

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