NI MASCHINE - constantly upgrading. (Ver. 1.6)

Joidibeats wrote:I have couple of questions to emptysea or other Maschine experts:

1. How easy is the process of taking a stereo sample and turning it into mono? (this means I want to preview both first and then decide which one to go with.)

I haven't figured out a way to do it in Maschine yet, so I use a wave editor (Sound Forge) instead.

Joidibeats wrote:2. Does maschines 16-level function go above the 16 pads? Can I get them to go like 64 notes when changing bank? And I assume this feature works with Midi keyboard hooked on aswell?

When using Maschine's pads, it goes from C-2 to G8. When using a MIDI keyboard, it depends on the range of your keyboard.

yo, does anybody know if you can run Maschine on one of the older g5 imacs with the power pc processors? i was thinking of copping it.

NaychaBoy wrote:yo, does anybody know if you can run Maschine on one of the older g5 imacs with the power pc processors? i was thinking of copping it.

I'm almost 100% you can't, I was looking at various NI software and they ditched most PPC support on all their line.

Maschine works on PPCs up until 1.1. Not even Apple is supporting PPC Macs at this point. Snow Leopard is FULL INTEL only.

Getting back to Maschine 1.5......

Went to GC yesterday, and got Maschine 1.5 (I am a PROUD user of an MPC (1000+JJOS1)+Logic 8 and Ableton Live).
Had been exploring the capabilities, and to be honest, has a great potential; coming for the MPC world it was quite easier for me to start making beats, sampling and cutting my own programs on my mid-level laptop with windows 7.
The swing is smooth as butter and cutting samples on the controller is fantastic (Wish the can have the same layout as JJ, not a big problem). I had been running the thing for hours, with no problem, ZERO LATENCY (I use a old USB Transit Interface).
Man, I have been reading some threads, and there's so much critics around this software, I am NOT a hatter, but as a Produce, I always want to be ahead of the game, using tools that can make me more productive. I am thinking about possibilities, using my existing MPC setup. Had anybody try this yet?

Hatter:



Produce:



(sorry, I couldn't resist)

Isn't it the case that most critics are being critical of repetitive and blatant advertising and boring evangelical hype, rather than being critical of Maschine itself?

so I isntalled 1.5, but whenever I try to open up a project that was done in 1.1...I get a message saying your library has been modified with newer, changes will not be saved...great

you should be able to open your older projects, they will just be saved in 1.5 and won't be able to be opened in 1.1 or any previous version anymore.

Just went into Long & McQuade and ordered one. $660...HOPE IT'S SWEET

Emptysea, you have talked about Maschine at great lengths highlighting features that are right on the surface claiming that you don't have to go to another "MPC mode" to access them. But the truth is, there are many Maschine functions that you must go to another "Mode" or "Menu" to access them. In other word you have to press one button to access secondary functions and then press another button to access these functions. No different than hitting an MPCs Mode button plus a pad to access different "modes" or "menus."

Askia Shaheed wrote:Emptysea, you have talked about Maschine at great lengths highlighting features that are right on the surface claiming that you don't have to go to another "MPC mode" to access them. But the truth is, there are many Maschine functions that you must go to another "Mode" or "Menu" to access them. In other word you have to press one button to access secondary functions and then press another button to access these functions. No different than hitting an MPCs Mode button plus a pad to access different "modes" or "menus."

No, we were only talking about being able to tweak the pitch without going to another mode/menu, specifically. For you to suggest that I was saying Maschine doesn't have other modes/menus to go to in general as you're attempting to do here is being disingenuous.

emptysea wrote:

Askia Shaheed wrote:Emptysea, you have talked about Maschine at great lengths highlighting features that are right on the surface claiming that you don't have to go to another "MPC mode" to access them. But the truth is, there are many Maschine functions that you must go to another "Mode" or "Menu" to access them. In other word you have to press one button to access secondary functions and then press another button to access these functions. No different than hitting an MPCs Mode button plus a pad to access different "modes" or "menus."

No, we were only talking about being able to tweak the pitch without going to another mode/menu, specifically. For you to suggest that I was saying Maschine doesn't have other modes/menus to go to in general as you're attempting to do here is being disingenuous.

Not quite. You repeated numerous times how you can change the pitch of sounds in Maschine without going into "a different mode" like an MPC. You spoke as if this was a huge advantage of Maschine over an MPC. You just left out the part that there are numerous other functions that you do have to enter "a different mode" or "menu." This is "disingenuous." It's all good though. Its typical for people around here to defend their purchases. I don't feel the need to do that. I am not shy about telling anyone what I like or dislike about something I own. Stay tuned...I have plenty to of likes/dislikes about Maschine to write about.

^ **** retard.......wow.

Ensoniq got there with the marketing before NI lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrj6Zo_v ... re=related

those beats are so ill