Hey guys, Maschine arrived at the most unfortunate time possible, just a few days before my final exams. I actually only toyed around with it for about an hour then gave it to a friend until sunday to make sure I actually study lol. This is my first experience with a groovebox and while initially it was confusing, I had a really good understanding of it within the hour. I’m excited to get more time with it I can already tell with enough time put into it I’ll really be able to move on the fly. For anyone else that is intimidated by Ableton (like I was) this may be the best place to start and then migrate over to Ableton or just stick with Maschine.
I am really looking into this one, just need some cash. Looking forward to hearing more from you and the Maschine, ones your exams are over! And good luck
I am really new to electronic music but have been looking at the maschine for a while now and am very interested in it. Will i need anything more than the maschine itself, computer and amp to work it?
Yep, Akai MPCs are great! Here’s a great vid demonstrating the possibilities, hopefully the Maschine’s larger feature set will help churn out crazier stuff than this:
I have had it for about 10 days now and will say its amazing. The hardest problem I am having right now is sticking to trying to produce one track. Its just so easy to start these grooves up that I just keep building drum tracks and grooves. The effects are great and its pretty easy to use.
I’m picking up Machine tommorow at Moog Audio in Toronto.. $699 and no tax WOO! I’m also picking up a midi keyboard and a studio mic. This weekend should be a load of fun.
Just picked up mine from Robotspeak today - haven’t cracked it open yet, couple of chores to finish up.
I keep catching myself looking over my shoulder every few minutes to admire the box.
Looking forward to trying out the Traktor template as well. I got a feeling that NI has even deeper Maschine - Traktor integration coming up - can’t wait.
I want one too because I want to start producing but I can’t justify the expense when you could get the same results using just your mouse/keyboard in regular production software.
Same here, but i’ve never really been into production anyway. So i get stuck pretty easily in short patterns and rythms and can’t really proceed.
But had the same probs in Ableton.
But actually it feels a lot more natural, and its shitloads of fun to play around with it all the time.
For the instruments i recommend hooking up an external keyboard to the maschine, changing the keys with the knob kinda sucks.
But i have to say its super awesome, i was trying it out together with traktor and see a lot of potential there. Its pretty easy to rock some vocals over your tracks with it. Better than beatjuggling with my nano korgs.
Yes, yes… I agree on the keyboard! And I definitely think it’s much more natural… I don’t think I could have made cool drum patterns so quickly without it. It lends itself to experimentation.
Have you utilized the velocity pads to control the volume of the vocals you’re triggering? …Where are the clips playing from? From a track in Traktor or from Maschine?
I’ve set up Maschine and Traktor so they can share my Audio 8 DJ… so I can trigger sounds in either.
