Without further ado, let’s see if all our prayers have been answered, leaving only world peace left to long for. The controller is the Maschine Studio and its software is available to users old and new, fully rewritten with a new audio engine and an affinity for multicore processors. Early 2013 saw this hardware/software hybrid embrace colour in a big way and now, before the glow has had a chance to dim on those multicoloured pads, a new top–of–the–range controller joins the flock. In its four year lifespan, Native Instruments’ Maschine has bulked–up in gradual stages to become a powerful and mature beat–oriented sequencer. Maschine+ has the same layout as Maschine Mk3, with 16 pads, two screens, eight macro encoders and a 4D encoder, but it features a new silver metal housing as well as a heavier material used for the encoders.Native Instruments take their hybrid groove machine to another level with new hardware and a big software update. With the entirely standalone Maschine+, NI are saying “leave the laptop behind” for the first time in its history. Different variations of the product, like Maschine Jam, Maschine Mikro and Maschine Studio, were also released but these too could not fully function without a computer. Updates over the years have included resizing the pads and buttons, adding new physical features like a touch bar for modulation and enhancing the screens with colour and high resolution, to name a few. From Maschine Mk1 to Mk3, NI has regularly made improvements based on the feedback from their community, but these have always followed the model of software integration with a computer. Since Maschine was launched in 2011, many fans and users of the product have wondered whether Native Instruments would follow companies like Akai Professional into hardware-oriented standalone territory. Maschine+ is the first embedded product from Native Instruments, bringing the company’s instruments, effects, and sounds into an entirely hardware-based workflow.
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