Interesting, I would quite like to play around with a machinedrum. I toyed with the idea of getting an electribe to play beats over top while DJing until I kinda talked myself out of it when rationalizing what I really needed it for over the F1 I already had. Was thinking it could be a nice hardware midi clock source to drive traktor/ableton. Then I played around with midipal which can seemingly do the same and found it didn’t seem to matter how I had it setup given that i’m running win 7 OS.
Maschine does have some kind of timestretch now, not sure how one would go about trying to use it live though… Wouldn’t doing any kind of quantized, snap grab ala remix deck require very good midi clock sync between maschine and traktor?
I think was mentioned earlier but I also don’t find tempo controls so great on the Maschine hardware. Given my lack of success with midi clock sync the only other option for using it along side was manually dialling it in and nudging for drift. It might just be that I haven’t found the right way to do this yet tho…
Ableton is in charge of all the looping, Maschine is just another midi controller (APC would be better here IMHO) and its not setup for on the fly loop capture from Traktor
