Swung though GC here in San Diego yesterday, picked up a Maschine for $499. Packaging looked fine at the store. I get it home, and the packaging in the box was a bit more ‘loose’ than I would have expected. Well, ok. So I install it, fire off the serial to NI, and “this serial # is in use”. Call to GC :"Did you folks sell me a used maschine ? " “Nope, factory sealed!” Uh huh. I have a case open with NI’s registration dept now. Yay.
THAT said, I played around with it in demo mode for a bit, and am mightily pleased with my purchase. Next week I’ll order an S4 to go with it…
If someone returns something within 30 days of buying it at GC it is still considered new. Same thing happened to me a while back when I got an MPC 500 brand new and they wanted to give me one loose in a raw cardboard box for full price.
last time i visited one i remember i worked in the neighborhood so i had some time to kill so i stopped in to mess with some synths. a salesmen approached me, and started to try to sink their hooks in me. i didnt intend on buying anything but to kill time and maybe he knew something i didnt know so i started chatting with him about how i would like multi-timbral VA synth because editting synths in ableton can feel too clinical… now we were standing next to a whole wall of digital multi-timbre synths he had no iea what i was talking about but went to recommending the most expensive moog synth they had. he didnt even know what a multi-timbre synth was.
Has Rainer looked at getting the Traktor Bible in the iTunes book store Karlos? It can’t be that hard and I think they’ve got some pretty good copy protection going there.
tau, what are you hoping to do with the maschine? ive got an S4 on its way and i was looking at the maschine too, looks like a pretty sweet tool my hands are greedy to get their hands on!
Mostly as an expansion to the S4’s sampling buttons, but I also wanted to give NI a chance to wow me on the production side of things. I also wanted pads for writing drum parts, I have a hard time playing my synth keys for drums. All of that and the ‘easy’ sampling and remixing options sold me on it.
Still waiting for NI registration support to me though, and GC is getting a fairly nasty call from me tomorrow.
me though, and GC is getting a fairly nasty call from me tomorrow.