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Feature Request: Sound Variation Support for Studio One
I'd love to see the implementation of the Sound Variation API into Kontakt so Sound Variations for articulation switching are created and offered automatically (E.g. See VSL's implementation).
Besides Studio One this Sound Variations API is already implemented in Digital Performer as well. Open to be adopted across different DAWs this sets the stage to be a non DAW-specific benefit for many users.

Re: Messages from TRAKTOR
I will not upgrade to a subscription model, i'll just leave it as it is.
There are several outstanding issues from more than five years ago that need fixing first.
Working with hardware partners should be the number one goal, get your software back out into the clubs, there's some really impressive hardware out now but it doesn't work properly in the traktor environment and it needs to if you are serious about moving forward.
Re: Share advice you'd give to your newbie self
Don't buy every piece of music software you see. Or music hardware. Take the time to really become an expert in 1, 2, or 3 pieces of software and let it consume you. If you pick a hardware synth, learn every single parameter so you can squeeze every ounce of life out of it. If you pick a traditional instrument, practice every single day until it becomes an extension of your body. Your music will thank you for it.
Tidal implementation
[TIP] Making sliced samples play in order without small pauses in-between
I've been playing with slicing and sampling on Maschine, and I think this trick applies to other DAWs as well from my experiments, but here's what's worked for me.
I had a sample which I had previously edited to be easy to slice into 32 sections of equal length at 110 BPM. When I used the slice tool in Maschine, it mapped each of those slices to a note on the keyboard and made a pattern where each of those notes corresponding to the slices were played in order, as expected.
When played back, however, the slices seemed to have audible portions of silence between them, as though something cut off each slice at its beginning or end a bit. I had messed with the slicing parameters as well as the sampler settings to no avail: each time the slices sounded like they had a small pause. I even tried slicing in other DAWs and found a similar issue.
The workaround was to simply raise the BPM of the project by a small amount: in my case, I raised it by 2BPM. Now my 110BPM sample played without any gaps on the 112BPM project by simply overlapping a bit. I imagine there's other workarounds like adding a bit of reverb to the sample, but this one was the easiest to immediately apply.
Also, if it helps, keep in mind I kept the sample type as One-Shot in its Pitch/Gate settings.

Re: Coming up next for MASCHINE and MASCHINE+
Thanks for the update.
One thing it really bothers me is that from day one they promised more effects and instruments to be compatible. I think I wasn't the only one which was expecting more of the komplete instruments and effect become compatible with time.
And not talking about creating new interments like polysynth which feels to me like reinventing the wheel (super 8??).
But simply make the ones that already exist compatible with maschine plus like komplete 13, like kontakt libraries, massive, replica, guitar rig...
At this point I lost my confidence on that the compatibility list will ever grow.
So NI created a new standalone maschine that people was already waiting for years, and from day one that only runs 10 per cent of the ni effects and instruments? In a way, it could be considered 10 times worst than the mk3?
Is anybody else bothered about this?

A few words on the new Kontakt 6.7.0 update
We're happy to release today a new major update for Kontakt. Find below a couple of words from the Kontakt team.
The long awaited ARM compatibility version of Kontakt is here!
You can now run Kontakt natively on Silicon in Standalone mode and as a plugin in all DAW’s that currently support ARM.
Kontakt is now also compatible with macOS 12 (Monterey) and Windows 11.
While working on the compatibility we took the opportunity to make significant changes in the Kontakt codebase. This resulted in fixing a lot of user facing bugs but also in improving a lot of things under the hood.
Additionally, this release expands the sonic capabilities of the platform with the addition of 2 new bass amplifiers from Guitar Rig (Bass Pro & Bass Invader) that are modelled using award-winning techniques. Bass Pro delivers that gritty, growling sound and Bass Invader gives everything you need to make low end sounds and get that classic 90s British indie flavour.
Feel free to check the detailed changelogs in our official update status 👈

Re: Coming up next for MASCHINE and MASCHINE+
I can confirm this again and again. We're always being told to stop releasing content to focus on development but one has literally no connection with the other.
As a matter of fact, we should probably do more content 😇

Re: Coming up next for MASCHINE and MASCHINE+
Would it be possible to add a feature where one could import or make our own custom chord sets? This would be real game changer.

Re: Maschine 2: Piano roll preview when moving/dragging notes or events
Hello,
I think he asks to have previews of the notes when you click or move a midi event on the piano roll in Maschine software.
It's quite useful when dragging notes with the mouse. It is true that it's present almost everywhere in audio softwares.
I can understand why it is not present on maschine, it can be annoying for live, because you don't want to hear your whole range if you move things on the fly. However, in a production context, it's very useful, unless you always hum all your notes and have them in your head all the time.
It would be nice to have an on/off option.
