This page brings together a selection of instrument releases I worked on at Native Instruments, focusing on product design across both interface and marketing. The projects span different categories — from cinematic sound design tools to electric instruments for contemporary production — but share a common approach to visual clarity, usability, and identity.
My role connected the internal product experience with the external presentation. I designed graphical user interfaces within Kontakt, defined visual systems, and developed campaign assets across digital touchpoints. The work reflects the balance between functional interaction design and the broader visual language that frames each product.
Session Guitarist – Electric Neon Essentials is a virtual electric guitar instrument for Kontakt 8, created for electronic and pop music production. It is based on a custom Strat-style guitar with active pickups and focuses on polished, processed tones rather than traditional, naturalistic guitar realism.
The instrument combines a pattern-based engine for tempo-synced rhythm parts with a melody mode for manually played lead lines. It also includes built-in effects chains, a range of articulations, and genre-specific presets. Everything runs inside Kontakt 8 with NKS integration.
It allows producers to add structured guitar parts to a track without recording or performing a live guitarist.
Erosia is a cinematic sound design engine built around unconventional acoustic textures. It captures tiny physical interactions — bowing glass, ice cracking, metal scraping — and expands them into evolving, expressive layers with granular, sampler and wavetable engines. It’s designed for composers and sound designers who want rich, morphing atmospheres rather than conventional pitched instruments.
Odes is a rhythmic, narrative-driven Kontakt instrument that combines ensembles of acoustic instruments from diverse traditions into an expressive soundscape. Up to three instrument layers can be blended with tempo-synced loops and expressive articulations, making it a tool for cinematic scoring where motion and texture drive the composition.
Electric Keys – Ember and Teak are two distinct vintage electric keyboard emulations within the Electric Keys series. Ember delivers a sharper, percussive electric piano voice with punch and groove, while Teak offers warmer, softer electric tones that respond to playing dynamics — both designed for soulful, expressive keyboard parts in a wide range of styles.
