Native Instruments Maschine+ Standalone Music Production Console
This is an excellent piece of kit. Works really well stand alone, and has the flexibility of being able to control the Maschine software on a PC or Mac too.
I’ve only hit the stand-alone memory limit a couple of times, and that was when I was really pushing it with multiple instances of Massive and way too many samples in one project.
Really nice to see that NI give you two voucher codes so that you can get a couple of Expansions to steer the available sounds more towards your personal taste - for me, Drop Squad offers a fantastic contrast to the more vanilla packs that come as standard.
It took me a long time to choose between this and one of the many MPC units, but after a little hands on time with each of the options it came down to the impressively intuitive controls of the Maschine. Everything just falls into place and feels right after only a few minutes, so you are very quickly quickly able to forget about the controls and just get to making music (and, let’s face it, that’s why we are all here!)
I’ve only hit the stand-alone memory limit a couple of times, and that was when I was really pushing it with multiple instances of Massive and way too many samples in one project.
Really nice to see that NI give you two voucher codes so that you can get a couple of Expansions to steer the available sounds more towards your personal taste - for me, Drop Squad offers a fantastic contrast to the more vanilla packs that come as standard.
It took me a long time to choose between this and one of the many MPC units, but after a little hands on time with each of the options it came down to the impressively intuitive controls of the Maschine. Everything just falls into place and feels right after only a few minutes, so you are very quickly quickly able to forget about the controls and just get to making music (and, let’s face it, that’s why we are all here!)
August 7, 2022
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Carl L.
