Even with clips, I am still too slow arranging tracks in Maschine. After getting back my computer, I have tried to replicate that iPad "workflow" in Maschine, but sadly I am not getting the same results. I still move everything to the computer DAW for the final detailed work, but I can get to 85-90% finished on the iPad. I have been completing tracks like never before. Pair with some good synths and sampling apps, and you have an amazing arsenal at your disposal (I use Segments for samples, did not try Koala). Oh boy, what a revelation! Once you spend some time with it, that app is a joy to use and it is super fast. In the meantime, I tried to use the iPad with NanoStudio2 and few select apps for making music. About a couple of months ago, my computer crashed and it took forever to get it repaired. So now I am in a dilemma, should I abandon Maschine and stick to the iPad since I get the fastest and best results with it?Īlthough I love the tactile aspects of making music with Maschine, it's still not the fastest way for me to create tracks. At the end of the day, I want to finish tracks and not just make loops.
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Ironically, I think it's the limitations of the M+ which are forcing more people to adapt to the workflow and hence they discover its strengths.Īlthough I love the tactile aspects of making music with Maschine, it's still not the fastest way for me to create tracks. I’m taking them to the afterlife(-ves).įrom my experience, the Maschine MK3 + Jam + keyboard (M32 in my case) is a very nice ecosystem to work in, especially when you do some customization to the Library so that you are not overwhelmed with choices. When i die and get burried (or cremated) it will be with my mashines. I LOVE MASHINE and the Maschine workflow. When that is done i export all soinds separately as wavloops, create audiotracks in logic and build my track and add some effects and automations and a dirty master.
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Within a couple of weeks i had learned more abt the ecosystem than i had previous years all together, and now i complete 85-90% of my tracks in M+ before even connecting the M+ to my laptop just to open the projects in m2sw to fine-edit my arrangements. I started turning on the screensaver whilst working with the mk2 and jam so I decided to buy an M+ when they came out. This is where I'm completely underwhelmed with this so far.Click to expand.Happy to hear a new positive voice! For me, having an mk2 and working mostly in Logic, i was used to the screen and mouse and never bothered too much to learn M2sw by using only hardware, mostly drumming/recording and then working with mouse, then i got a Jam and i used the computerscreen less and less. and running only parts of the software for various hardware etc. I don't think the MPC software will suffer the same fate as Kore, but not acknowledging it as the AKAI DAW / sequencer etc. As it stands it's the same disparate BS that all companies pull. It's IMO not a good sign at all that AKAI aren't looking at this as a total ecosystem with an integrated single DAW/VSTi in the MPC software as the hub on the computer, and various hardware units you can buy to support that ecosystem.
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The MPC Live integrates so well in controller mode with the software on the computer, as a VSTi and as it's own DAW, that I had high hopes. So AKAI are breaking off one portion of the MPC2 software to cater to Force, and another to cater to MPCs, with not a peep about how the two integrate together. They say it cannot run as a VSTi in another DAW, which indicates it's not running MPC2 software but a modified version of it, if at all on the computer. They're forgoing complete integration and working first and foremost to make this thing a front end for Ableton Live, which already has Push 2 etc. This is where I'm completely underwhelmed with this so far.įrom information around the web it's got no arrangement song mode yet, but both it and the MPCs will get one in an update.