Chief Product & Technology Officer at Native Instruments. Ex-Meta; Ex-BBC.
London, England
Joined May 2007
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Simon Cross retweeted
Harness the power and elevate your sounds with Akai Professional's MPC seamlessly integrated with Native Instruments' (@NI_news) innovative tools—unlock the future of music creation.
Learn more at akaipro.com/mpc3
#AkaiPro #NativeInstruments #MPC #NAMMShow
This is an important partnership for us at NI.
The music industry is male-dominated; the tech industry is male-dominated.
We're committed to doing our part to bend the curve.
🎉We are happy to announce that Native Instruments @NI_news have renewed their partnership with GirlCode! 🚀 Watch this space as we will be doing much more with them over the next couple of months! ✅lnkd.in/e6BanW96
#Girlcode #IWD2024 #WomenInTech #softwareengineer
ALT We are happy to announce that Native Instruments @NI_news have renewed their partnership with GirlCode! 🚀
If you're a podcaster/vlogger/streamer, we've been working hard on taking the amazing technology that's used across the TV and Movie industry (from RX), and put it into a simple but powerful package with just three controls that make you sound your best.
izotope.com/en/products/vea.…
Some cool stuff from our Audio Research team
🎹Ever wondered what a certain word or phrase might sound like if it were transformed into a musical instrument?
🎉We are excited that our work on #InstrumentGen has been accepted at the #NeurIPS2023 ML for Audio Workshop!
📄arxiv.org/abs/2311.04339
🔊instrumentgen.netlify.app/ (1/4)
New DJ hardware alert. We just dropped the new Traktor X1 Mk3. Pretty excited about this one. Huge congrats to the team who've brought this concept to life: youtu.be/CwOUIeFPdKs?si=0Zgm…
Finally found the time to write up my talk from @ProductAtHeart_ Hamburg in June. Some folks told me they found it super actionable, to thought I'd share it more widely.
simoncross.com/p/conference-…
Perfect is a high bar, but this thing is pretty darn good at it's job.
musictech.com/reviews/brainw…
What's your personal NPS score?
I'm not suggesting you actually find out, but NPS is a pretty useful way to think about building personal reputation over time.
And that might just bend the curve on your career.
simoncross.com/p/nps-of-you
Simon Cross retweeted
The video for my North Bay Python talk is out, and I've put together an accompanying edited transcript with annotated slides and links
simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3…
If you haven't been completely immersed in this world for the last year, my hope is this can help catch you up!
Something crazy happening at home or at work? Feeling overwhelmed and powerless?
The Circle of Control can help.
simoncross.com/p/the-circle-…
At Native Instruments, we're hiring! Looking for a director of product to lead the team that builds our instruments & sounds platforms including Kontakt.
You're an experienced PM who's into music production? This might be for you.
native-instruments.com/en/ca…
Wanna geek off about design? Checkout 3 insane design details of the Beosound 9000 -- the best CD player ever made (IMHO). simoncross.com/p/beosound-90…
Tradeoffs and Payoffs: Joining Soundwide simoncross.com/p/joining-sou…
When I started in Integrity / trust & safety in 2018, precision & recall were two concepts I needed to understand fully, and fast.
This is the article I wish I'd been able to send myself back then. Once you understand them, you'll see them everywhere.
simoncross.com/p/precision-a…
Tradeoffs and Payoffs -- Scorecards: a way to set goals and track progress when all else has failed. simoncross.com/p/scorecards?…
Turns out, a few small changes to how you present data can make a huge difference to a product team's execution toward their goal.
simoncross.substack.com/p/th…
Tradeoffs and Payoffs: Junior PM vs Mid-level PM vs Senior PM simoncross.substack.com/p/pm…
Extreme Clarity pt2: Percentages and Percentage Points on Tradeoffs and Payoffs
simoncross.substack.com/p/pe…