Recently I noticed a new version Maschine was released, but to my dismay it is not supported anymore on the current version of macOS I am running on my production machine, which is the latest version of Big Sur (11.7.10).
I am rather baffled with this limited support for older OS's, especially considering the minor improvements this new update contains. More importantly, the latest software from other companies such as Arturia, Renoise, and even Ableton are not limited to only this recent version of macOS.
As a comparison, I recently purchased the Arturia MiniFreak, which is accompanied with a VST version, which has been released in 2022. The latest update (2.0) from December 2023 supports macOS 10.13. For the inattentive reader, that is not Ventura (macOS 13.0.0), but High Sierra, which has been released in 2017, five years before the MiniFreak was even released. Meanwhile, the Maschine MK3 has been released in 2017, and the latest version of the software only runs on macOS from 2020 or later, while having a GUI that looks like it hasn't been updated since 2013.
To add insult to injury, although it is besides my main point, NI is teasing a subscription based model for their entire software suite. I am already not a proponent of subscription based models for creative software, but with this 'market leading' limited level of software support for older OS's, there is literally no reason to pay a monthly fee for me able to use anything new being released by NI, as it won't even offer the option to use it on the OS I am currently running.
Sorry for being so grumpy about this, but if anything, it is because I care about the products that I have from NI. I really like the Maschine workflow, especially in combination with Komplete Kontrol, and use many of NI's software synths in all my projects. It's painful to see a once great music production company decline year by year, and pulling their intellectual property down along the way.