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Native Instruments also gives Maschine owners a free copy of Massive which means that you can really have everything you need to start producing with a single purchase. As of version 2.0 they’ve created and included a great drum synth that’s capable of recreating both classic drum synth sounds as well as some more realistic percussion. A decent quality assortment of various drum hits, synth stabs, live instruments, and sound effect samples. Native Instruments deliberately avoided those features and instead opted for a hardware-software combination with a very narrow focus on features that lent themselves to immediacy and inspiration, which I personally enjoy. Though, I call that a shortcoming, I hesitate to call it a flaw.
When I have a desire to write and record a guitar and vocal based song, it’s just not feasible to produce that in Maschine and I must use a different program. The capability to cut, copy, paste, and other standard audio editing functions aren’t there. It doesn’t even have the concept of “audio tracks.” It’s designed to use patterns of midi notes, software synthesizers, and short samples which isn’t ideal for many styles of music. Maschine simply can’t handle multi-track recording. However, the groovebox-style design isn’t without shortcomings. I find this tactile workflow to be very engaging and there’s just a kind of connection with pressing pads and tweaking knobs to produce and arrange your songs that you just don’t get with a traditional mouse-driven DAW interface. The layout is well designed, with every control placed in an intuitive location and there are enough buttons and knobs to keep page and menu diving to a minimum. The endless encoders are smooth and the velocity-sensitive pads have a fantastic feel and are responsive to all levels of pressure. Since it’s marketed as a marriage of software with a dedicated hardware controller, the quality of the hardware is paramount. Every function related to using Maschine is accessible on the hardware with no need to look at your computer monitor. Once you start the software, you’re greeted with the biggest selling point of Maschine-The Interface. That said, there's no lag and I've had no problems even with projects with many sounds and patterns. The software doesn't seem bloated but I can't say that it feels exceptionally light, either. I haven't had any performance issues or instability.
#Maschine mk1 manual
The manual has pictures and diagrams for each of Maschine’s functions and they’ve uploaded a wealth of videos walking you through using Maschine step-by-step.
#Maschine mk1 driver
The software and driver installation is the same as all other Native Instruments products, very standard fare.
#Maschine mk1 how to
Hope that helps.Native Instruments has made sure that learning how to use Maschine is as easy as possible. Then once I have a cool track built I export it to Reason, or Ableton or Sonar, whatever and keep building the structure. But Maschine is the ultimate creative tool, its so fast and fluid to get ideas down. And I am getting LOTS of scoring to video projects so the tools I need changed a bit. Personally I try to be very minimal with gear, so I have stripped down my studio to just the basics, but I find sometimes I just need to do something a bit different to get the creative juices flowing again. (whole different discussion) Now my laptop is a Macbook with 2gb ram and it runs Maschine OK but not amazing.
#Maschine mk1 pro
And decided if I get a Macbook pro or Windows box or whatever. I believe it is going to be replaced with an modern i7 and 32gb of ram with 3 3tb hard drives, but I am still planning that out. The specs on my current rig that I run Maschine 2.1 onĭual 600GB hard drives, one for OS and one for samples libraries/projects
#Maschine mk1 upgrade
I try and do a major upgrade very five years. But that computer was getting dated fast, and I replaced it with a nice Dell and thats what I am still using but now that Dell is getting dated so I am planning a new rig probably within the next 6 months. Now you asked about my rig(s) when I first got Maschine MK1 (I got one free from NI for being involved in launching) I was running a PowerMac G5, and it ran really well. That's why I say I have seen LOTS of strange issues without the updates. Well first off, I worked at Sweetwater and helped Launch Maschine MK1 so I was there though the first few updates where strange things would go wrong. Yea i'm with you Bugsy, I think studio is overkill! But some people seem to like it.