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Why is NI hell bent on preventing it's users from using Maschine as a main DAW?
I'm serious. As someone who's been waiting my whole life for a company to make a powerful production studio in a box, ever since I bought Maschine mk3 I've been on a mission to make it my one and only DAW. I've ditched Cubase, and have been using Maschine only, and ONLY the hardware (as much as humanly possible).
The reason? I, like many others, stared my music making experience on a PlayStation, of all things. Yes, Music 2000 app for PlayStation 1. Over 25 years ago.
And since then, I've bought a PC, built a studio, released albums, played all over the world, bought hardware synths... and all the wile never really re-creating the simplicity and pure inspiration I've experienced making music using a PS1 controller and a well-built (for the time and system used) piece of software.
And then I got the machine mk1 and I just knew... this was it. It was not there yet, but all the essentials were here. And with the mk3, I was hooked.
So for the last 2 years I've only been using the maschine and a midi keyboard to make my tracks. From start to finish. Mutiple genres of music. And I made some of the most inspired, creative music I've ever made, and more importantly, I've had the most fun ever... but it's also been extremely frustrating at times, as I've had to find slow and painful workarounds for functions which take a split second in all other DAWs. And some are completely undoable, and I had to let them go. And it take so little to add these few features, I'm starting to wonder if NI's doing this on purpose.
Which to me begs the question; Why does NI not address the few glaring issues and capitalize on getting maschine to be the first actually fully fledged HARDWARE DAW controller. I think this would be much more popular and exiting, not to mention lucrative than say.... Komplete v36.5 or whatever the number is today. Do you have any idea how many people like me spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to create a simple, powerful and inspiring hardware studio that we would actually use in full capacity, and get professional level results?
Are there no visionaries left there? C'mon NI, think big!
If you ever want a list of small features that would make a huge impact towards that goal, feel free to P.M. me.
Anyway, not expecting a reply from NI, but you never know...
I've said what I had to say. Now back to making music.
Maven303
Re: [New release] KONTAKT 7 is here
hahahahahah! sorry but ”resizing empty space” is funny on several levels!
djadidai
Re: Bug in TP3 - 3.6.0 325 - Duplicate entries in collection
We can indeed reproduce the issue of duplicated entries having special characters in either path or folder names after importing the Collection from 3.5 into 3.6 and are investigating the issue with highest priority.
We will keep you updated on our findings as they come in. Our goal is to release a fix as soon as possible that stops the duplication and also removes the until then created duplicates from your collection.
Re: GUI design: adventures in Blender.
One more picture of the 3D model. Super happy with how it came out.
Greets,
Bolle
Bolle
Re: GUI design: adventures in Blender.
In case anyone was wondering:
i'm still fiddling away on this project whenever i find the time. I've also been doing a lot of 3d work for other things and learning a bit more about working in Blender.
Current GUI status:
Also thinking of taking ortograpfic (non-perspective) shots of these knobs and making them available for everyone in the User Library. It's a lot of work though. So if you want these knobs for your GUI, please be patient on that.
Greets,
Peter
Bolle
Flexible Beatgrids & Real-time Stems - hurry up!
As teased in the new Serato videos last few days, new Serato update brings real-time stems. They already have flexible beatgrids.
We are, once again, last... I know they are on the roadmap and I'm thankful for that kind of transparency for the first time, but that "in research" should become "we are proud to announce" as soon as possible, before the year ends hopefully. Traktor user base is more than electronic music DJs.
Ability to easily sync tracks that are multiples of current bpm
Right now if you're playing a 120bpm track, the only way to sync a 60bpm track to it is to unlock the 60bpm track and hit the 2x tempo function and double the grid lines. Especially given how a lot of rhythm-driven modern music works it's perfectly reasonable to want to sync half/double/third/triple-tempo music without having to jump through these slow and risky (your grids may get messed up when you revert etc) workarounds.
