NI Maschine owners... 1.8 soon to be released... Time Stretch included!
New and improved features:
. Offline time stretching and pitch shifting feature . Transient Master . Tape and Tube Saturators . Save group with samples feature . Improved handling of missing samples . Revised select page (hardware) with access to note length . Quick select events of a sound in a pattern (Shift + Select + Pad) . Quick erase events of a sound in a pattern (Erase + Select + Pad) . Pre-hear samples from the hardware browser before loading them . Choke all playing sampler voices feature ("panic button": Shift + Mute) . Sample play position indicator on the waveform (hardware and software) . AutoWrite pinning feature . Various bug fixes
This list is subject to change, and does not necessarily list all features and fixes that will be in the final update.
Native-instrument has also recently released another expansion pack.... "Platinuim Bounce".
It goes on and on, but never on and off. Stay strong and never take a pause, it's constant elevation all the way to the top.
I feel bad for the people that just sold their maschines, and THANK YOU NI. I also own their S4 and rock that with technic 1200s and they are taking care of it under warranty. Great company, and this update is straight cash for the maschine users like me.
How many of you guy's would use those... Melodic sample licks... that come with some of those expansion packs. I'm talking using them exactly as they are in the expansion pack or chopped up.
I know some producers are totally against using them and think it's wack. I used to be that way until one day I had "Beat Block"... and couldn't come up with anything so I used a "Guitar sample lick" from a sample pack to start a beat and made a "Banger".
See the thing is... the music I added to the "Guitar sample lick"... I never would have came up with if I wouldn't have started with that "Guitar sample lick". Sometimes after I've added other instruments and finished the beat... I'll take the sample out and see if I can replace it with something else... so the whole beat can be free of "sample's" but that rarely works.
It's just seems like when I used those "Played lick Samples" it takes me in a whole different direction when making a beat and it saves me the trouble of digging through hundreds of records to find a dope sample.
They're also "Royalty-free" ... so you don't have to worry about getting a sample clearance....
So... how many of you guys would use some of those "Sample Licks" from sample CD's or expansion packs in your music?
Wow! U gotta love this. Akai selling point for the renaissance was that it had timestretch unlike other samplers and now ni maschine has timestretch a couple of months before the release of the new mpcs. It's amazing how fast companies move when competition is on their a**. Thankfully, the consumers will benefit from this
How many of you guy's would use those... Melodic sample licks... that come with some of those expansion packs. I'm talking using them exactly as they are in the expansion pack or chopped up.
I know some producers are totally against using them and think it's wack. I used to be that way until one day I had "Beat Block"... and couldn't come up with anything so I used a "Guitar sample lick" from a sample pack to start a beat and made a "Banger".
See the thing is... the music I added to the "Guitar sample lick"... I never would have came up with if I wouldn't have started with that "Guitar sample lick". Sometimes after I've added other instruments and finished the beat... I'll take the sample out and see if I can replace it with something else... so the whole beat can be free of "sample's" but that rarely works.
It's just seems like when I used those "Played lick Samples" it takes me in a whole different direction when making a beat and it saves me the trouble of digging through hundreds of records to find a dope sample.
They're also "Royalty-free" ... so you don't have to worry about getting a sample clearance....
So... how many of you guys would use some of those "Sample Licks" in your music?
I would. Dont worry so much about what other ppl think of your creative process. If the end product is hot.. **** em.
Fellow slutz, who is the bigger company between NI and Akai. Most importantly what product do you seeing being developed more between the ren and maschine?
Fellow slutz, who is the bigger company between NI and Akai. Most importantly what product do you seeing being developed more between the ren and maschine?
I would say AKAI based on tenure, and I think Maschine will be developed more due to AKAI's history of ignoring/poorly handling update requests on their other products. Akai is known for hardware, not software. Good question bro!
Oh forgot anyone think Battery 3 is dead. I'm guessing Battery 3 kits get made into maschine packs or put in the kontakt library. Absynth, FM 8, and Massive sounds get put in Maschine or Reaktor. Reaktor becomes the host for synths. Guitar Rig is the effects rack. Maschine 2.0 comes out with a new controller next year-multicore, audio tracks, somekind of songmode. Maybe a keyboard controller for maschine or kontakt? I'm just thinking outloud hear. I'm excited for the 1.8 update. I don't understand what the transient master is or offline timestretching. Isn't live offline timestretching? Thx
. Offline time stretching and pitch shifting feature . Transient Master . Tape and Tube Saturators . Save group with samples feature . Improved handling of missing samples . Revised select page (hardware) with access to note length . Quick select events of a sound in a pattern (Shift + Select + Pad) . Quick erase events of a sound in a pattern (Erase + Select + Pad) . Pre-hear samples from the hardware browser before loading them . Choke all playing sampler voices feature ("panic button": Shift + Mute) . Sample play position indicator on the waveform (hardware and software) . AutoWrite pinning feature . Various bug fixes
This list is subject to change, and does not necessarily list all features and fixes that will be in the final update.
For the most part, I many of these upcoming features are functions that should have been included when Maschine (or an sampling workstation) upon its initial release 3 years ago. The sample play position indicator on the waveform is the feature I want the most as it enhances editing. I could never understand why a software company would leave this function out.
Regardles, I am glad to see NI is further developing Maschine. A few more tweaks of the software and a new controller, and Maschine will be ideal for me.
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Fellow slutz, who is the bigger company between NI and Akai. Most importantly what product do you seeing being developed more between the ren and maschine?
Who knows. Akai has been around longer. NI has a longer history of developing software.
Both have pros and cons. NI has a rep for abandoning products. Akai has a rep for being slow to push out updates. Hopefully, each company will drive the other to continually step their game up.
For the most part, I many of these upcoming features are functions that should have been included when Maschine (or an sampling workstation) upon its initial release 3 years ago. The sample play position indicator on the waveform is the feature I want the most as it enhances editing. I could never understand why a software company would leave this function out.
Regardles, I am glad to see NI is further developing Maschine. A few more tweaks of the software and a new controller, and Maschine will be ideal for me.
jah works for akai .. and they will ban you . on the akai forums if u say . your not felling vintage mode ..
yeah, mono export should've been addressed before Maschine was ever released. Who dropped the ball on that basic feature? i hope they have fixed the annoying metronome clitch where you have to reboot to turn it off. Ren would really have to be lacking in something for me not to wipe my hands of Maschine an get the Ren, especially if they give it a few audio tracks within the software. this its a very important feature for creating , i may want to play a live bass or hardware Synth into my Ren session. Also, please fix the gain staging in Maschine.
I agree with Jahrome on the new controller. I can't break bread with thosea jumpy @ss encoders, and flimsy USB port. I will take another look upon 2.0. I like the development though.
Makes you wonder if Akai didn't come out b%tchslapping, how long before this stuff would have been added tho lol. Let the race begin. Who will win? Me....
I would say AKAI based on tenure, and I think Maschine will be developed more due to AKAI's history of ignoring/poorly handling update requests on their other products. Akai is known for hardware, not software. Good question bro!
yes but i think the software for the new mpc comes from sonivox. and they have being doing a few software mpc type vsti like sampla. ...
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and they will ban you . on the akai forums if u say . your not felling vintage mode .. 
