Maschine...

emptysea wrote:Other than being the first ever hardware to:

- offer Korg Electribe style hardware step sequencer

First of all that statement contradicts its self seeing as the Electribe is a piece of hardware.
Secondly,

Fung45 wrote:

emptysea wrote:Other than being the first ever hardware to:

- offer Korg Electribe style hardware step sequencer

[color=lime]First of all that statement contradicts its self seeing as the Electribe is a piece of hardware

emptysea wrote:

DJEther wrote:the only thing that separates Maschine from other midi controllers is that it has its own dedicated software to use with the hardware controller.

The others like the trigger finger, MPD's, and the such dont have a dedicated piece of software, is intended for use w/ many other software and people have to set them up on their own.
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the only thing that i see thats so "SPECIAL" about Maschine is that it offers screens to display the data and some other little features and THATS IT.

Other than being the first ever hardware to:

- offer Korg Electribe style hardware step sequencer with visual and tactile feedback that integrates seemlessly with a software DAW setup.

- offer a clip matrix controller mode for Ableton Live before Akai's APC40 has even hit the market.

- works just like hardware should without starting at a computer screen for the most part if you want, with the obvious advantages of a dedicated hardware workflow, yet also benefit from the obvious advantages of the power and flexibility of the computer.

Those three features alone for me is enough to make it desirable.

DJEther wrote:man you gotta love the internet.......

Ill be sold when I see a person use the Maschine w/ their computer screen turned off the whole time.

b-righteous wrote:You guys are being extreme. It's not a contest to see if you NEVER have to look at the screen. This part Maschine has down. The hands on experience is nice. It's just lacking a lot of simple features. Hands on wise it's just as intuitive as an MPC. Just needs better sample edit, midi in and out etc.

You guys must have a break down every time the computer screen is on. I can understand to a point but it isn't that serious.

derky wrote:great sample based maschine video (sorry if this has already been posted);

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17t5jlE ... re=channel

TheFrozenOne wrote:i got my mpc to get away from the computer.

FredFrank wrote:See above.

The Machinist wrote:

FredFrank wrote:See above.

the MPC line themselves are actually very basic machines themselves that don't do any specific thing spectacularly

The Machinist wrote:In the grand perspective, the MPC line themselves are actually very basic machines themselves that don't do any specific thing spectacularly (this isn't a diss, I own a few)...but they've still been used eventually to great result.