Has anyone gone back to an MPC from MASCHINE?

armanii wrote:
Well the only thing I see on here is "Gritty this, gritty that and J Dilla this, J Dilla that."

What a dick.

my new sig.

It reaaallyyy depends on you're taste, I mean it. I started out on FL Studio and an MPD24, just like many people, I switched to an MPC2500. When I first got it, I didn't like it much at all (the chopping, the sequencing, etc., felt much faster of a work-flow on FL Studio). But overtime, after like 2 months I really got used to the MPC 2500. But then I decided to get a DJ setup, so I sold my 2500, and now I'm making beats on FL Studio again, and a Korg padKONTROL. At this point I don't like the FL Studio's workflow, cause I'm so used to the MPC.

the maschine is a lot quicker then my old 1k id neva go back, however the filters on the 1k r better the maschine.

and im sure its all in my head but there is a certain weight of sound that the mpc has

first of all: whats your workflow?

maschine is perfect for a software workflow. if you work mainly with a daw. maschine is the right one. you work so much faster when everything is in a box.

besides you can do so much with it. it has nice effects. better "chop shop" and its an evolving system. native instruments will release constantly new stuff just because they have to compete with so many other companies.

BUT you need a good computer. when maschine breaks down its mainly a failure of the os! i am running maschine for 2 months now and i never had a crash.

best regards

better "chop shop"

gotta say, i've never used maschine but it'd be very hard to beat chopping in jjos.
if native instruments have come up with a better techique, then props to them
they probably have fancier autochop functions, huh? i prefer to get down and dirty scrubbing away at transients

i like that NI has put a spin on the 4x4 padbox game. someone needed to shake akai up, though they've done a good job at it themselves. hosed themselves up and down.

Maschine must continue to involve because it is still missing essential MPC functions especially when it comes to sampling and sample editing (yes..I sound like a broken record). Maschine's "Chop Shop" like features no way compares to the JJ OS. It barely competes with the Chop Shop functions in the Akai OS for the MPC 5000/2500/1000.

While Maschine can be used as a plug-in, it is no more better than an MPC or any instrument since you can record these instruments directly into the DAW of your choice.

Also...Maschine crashes as frequent as any software.

Askia Shaheed wrote:Also...Maschine crashes as frequent as any software.

Elaborate on "as frequent as any software" because I have been heavy on Reason/Recycle and I have not had a single crash. literally.

poundaproblem wrote:

Askia Shaheed wrote:Also...Maschine crashes as frequent as any software.

Elaborate on "as frequent as any software" because I have been heavy on Reason/Recycle and I have not had a single crash. literally.

I think that may be accurate though, if you have that type of computer where stuff crashes regularly then so will maschine. if you have the most stable computer ever created it wont crash nearly that regularly. I think the statement means it depends a lot on the hardware...

askia can't afford a good computer.

Good computers crash too. Fact not fiction.

Maschine needs the following "good computers":

Windows®
Windows® XP (latest Service Pack, 32 Bit), Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel® Pentium 4® 2.4 GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo or AMD Athlon™64, 2 GB RAM

Mac
Mac OS® X 10.5 or 10.6 (latest update), Intel® Core™ Duo, 2 GB RAM

and ubuntu 10 would be sweet too

Askia Shaheed wrote:Good computers crash too. Fact not fiction.

Maschine needs the following "good computers":

Windows®
Windows® XP (latest Service Pack, 32 Bit), Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel® Pentium 4® 2.4 GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo or AMD Athlon™64, 2 GB RAM

Mac
Mac OS® X 10.5 or 10.6 (latest update), Intel® Core™ Duo, 2 GB RAM

i have the mac(imac 10.5.8 and windows 7 both 4g ram) requirements and only one crash in 7 months between both systems-the mac crashed once and i think that was plug-in mode so I wont blame maschine

deegood wrote:

Askia Shaheed wrote:Good computers crash too. Fact not fiction.

Maschine needs the following "good computers":

Windows®
Windows® XP (latest Service Pack, 32 Bit), Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel® Pentium 4® 2.4 GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo or AMD Athlon™64, 2 GB RAM

Mac
Mac OS® X 10.5 or 10.6 (latest update), Intel® Core™ Duo, 2 GB RAM

i have the mac(imac 10.5.8 and windows 7 both 4g ram) requirements and only one crash in 7 months between both systems-the mac crashed once and i think that was plug-in mode so I wont blame maschine

I also run Maschine on a Mac with 4GB of Ram. I can get it to crash or hang sometimes when I am doing a lot of sample editing and assigning samples to pads quickly.

Visit NI's Maschine Technical Issues Forum. There you can read what other users have to say. As I said previously, it crashes as often as (no more...no less than) any typical software program.

It's not the ma(s)chine, it's the man?


*ducks*

i started off on FL's for like 4-5 months before i decided to get an MPC. the workflow is overall better this way than with FL's. I just dislike working on software.

You could always sample your own sounds and use them inside of w/e program you use, instead of buying packs or using the sounds that come with the program, if thats where your trying to get at talkin about "the grit". no matter if your using hardware or software, your sound is only going to sound as good as the sounds your using.

just get a decent soundcard and good enough computer with enough memory and is fast enough to run the program and decide to use its sounds or sample your own. the "grit" apparently comes with the older MPC's, not so much the newer ones and the source of your samples.