By lostsun
Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:47 am
For me personally,
Maschine was a failure. Well though concept, poorly executed. In my eyes it was just too basic. The time i gained with some workflow enhancements i lost with other workarounds for very basic things imo. Hence I'm back on the mpc 5000, since i'm not faster on Maschine and i don't like the step based sequencer.
Some of the little features i missed were things like:
-export all sounds from all groups at once
-renaming your bounce
-export to mp3
-there is no linear recording possible
-no timestretching
-no zero crossing
-a stop button/ kill all sounds button (pressing 3 times on the mpc stop button)
-you can't copy paste multiple scenes ("mpc sequences") at once
-audio tracks
-if you want to load sounds from the controller you have to tag em first, that takes ages with a 10gb + library
But what i find most awkward about it, is that the software runs on one single! core, it's 2012 lol.
Another thing i experienced was that when i was checking all the Komplete bass patches,the software crashed 3 times in half an hour (Macbook Pro 2011 2,3Ghz i5 4gb RAM).
After contacting the support service, which is great btw, and helping them, they told me the crash is normal. Maschine loads all unused patches in RAM.
So if you have one empty project, and you scrolled through like 50 Kontakt patches, then you have a big chance your ram will be full and the application will crash. They told me this is not how they designed it, but the app would still crash. They were working on it though. Crazy retarded if you ask me.
All in all, i still preferred my mpc-daw combo, which had less iritating limitations of basic things than Maschine You should consider it as a software "beatmaking" program instead of an all-in-one to go to DAW.
To each it's own, but i am selling my Maschine.
Maschine was a failure. Well though concept, poorly executed. In my eyes it was just too basic. The time i gained with some workflow enhancements i lost with other workarounds for very basic things imo. Hence I'm back on the mpc 5000, since i'm not faster on Maschine and i don't like the step based sequencer.
Some of the little features i missed were things like:
-export all sounds from all groups at once
-renaming your bounce
-export to mp3
-there is no linear recording possible
-no timestretching
-no zero crossing
-a stop button/ kill all sounds button (pressing 3 times on the mpc stop button)
-you can't copy paste multiple scenes ("mpc sequences") at once
-audio tracks
-if you want to load sounds from the controller you have to tag em first, that takes ages with a 10gb + library
But what i find most awkward about it, is that the software runs on one single! core, it's 2012 lol.
Another thing i experienced was that when i was checking all the Komplete bass patches,the software crashed 3 times in half an hour (Macbook Pro 2011 2,3Ghz i5 4gb RAM).
After contacting the support service, which is great btw, and helping them, they told me the crash is normal. Maschine loads all unused patches in RAM.
So if you have one empty project, and you scrolled through like 50 Kontakt patches, then you have a big chance your ram will be full and the application will crash. They told me this is not how they designed it, but the app would still crash. They were working on it though. Crazy retarded if you ask me.
All in all, i still preferred my mpc-daw combo, which had less iritating limitations of basic things than Maschine You should consider it as a software "beatmaking" program instead of an all-in-one to go to DAW.
To each it's own, but i am selling my Maschine.
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