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I dream that better automation will appear in maschine. At the moment, it is very difficult to use automation. It is difficult to set automation points with the mouse, you cannot draw curves.

Maschine is great for synths (including analog synths) and electronic music, but the awkward automation is very frustrating.

I hope the developers are working on it.

I find it very hard to understand why any company would not want to engage positively with its users, after all, it's in both their interests to utilise each other and Maschine has got some extremely passionate users, often with very valid ideas. Some time back, when Kai started giving out projections etc. it really did seem like a corner was being turned and things were looking better It really doesn't seem like it is any more, sorry to say.

I have the same issues.

How is it possible ? Are you serious NI ?

We have to wait patiently ? that's it?

Maschine + costs more than 1000 € !

We have to accept that Maschine plus will never be a finished product, it's a draft.

I have always been very satisfied with NI products but maschine plus is very disappointing.

I am seriously considering moving on.

Hey @Sequencesounds Here's about the Auto Backup feature:

This simple feature is named Automatic Backup. It can be found on the General page of the Preferences and enables MASCHINE to autosave your project in the event of a crash. If the feature is enabled, and in the event of a crash, when you reopen MASCHINE it will ask you if you want to reload the last project. The user has no control over what is saved by this feature, and only the project open when MASCHINE crashed is available to reload.A link to the General Preferences page in the manual (were the features is covered) is available online here: @toneyrome

https://www.native-instruments.com/ni-tech-manuals/maschine-software-manual/en/basic-concepts#preferences---general-page

Thumbs up if you want a dedicated thread for M+ tailored ensembles 👍

Now, OP already found a solution to his problem but even though I'm well aware to be talking long after the facts I still can't help add a comment of my own...

Why would you only want to rely on pre-made material in the first place? Sure, if you grab an expansion such as the latest Lunar Echos you can get some really cool sounds out of it, and of course pretty fast as well. Just go over the groups until you find something you enjoy, load it in and you're pretty much ready to play.

However... why not take the time & effort to build up your own sound kits? As someone else above me also mentioned: even the Maschine standard library has plenty of material which you can use for this. For example... the "Junkie XL kit" which contains some very dark percussion. "Kaboom Kit" anyone? Or what about the Techstar kit?

There's already so much material available. And do keep in mind that you don't have to rely on full premade groups either. The sound section also contains plenty of material which you could use as a basis and then expand on that by customizing and/or tweaking. Say... "Square Unison Too", "Tibetian", "Unobass", "Maple Detroit" or... "Fast Gate"?

But if you really want to get some dark sounds... why not go even deeper and use one of the 6 drum synths to set up your own sound?

It will take more time, true enough, but you'll also get completely different results than fully relying on premade stuff.