Maschine + RoadMap

tco

Have been reading and watching all the issues plaguing the +. Will NI be able to share a road map on the next phase development for the + to make it a robust product worthy of the legacy of the maschine (eco) system, keep the customers engaged and attract prospective buyers.

Obviously NI's strength is on software and controllers . The + is the maiden attempt on a real 'Instrument' and nothing to rave about in terms of a success, but rather learn on the back of customer inputs and get them to fund the project. A sloppy execution of a very well conceived software project.

basehead617

Unlikely, NI product managers almost never post here.. there has been a rotating door of people that post 1 thing then never come back again..

Flexi

M+ is certainly not a sloppy implementation of a very well conceived software product, in fact post Mk1, the most common comment on every new hardware release "why new hardware, the software needs more updates"

This applies to M+ too, other than it being a bit underpowered, the hardware is majestic, it is the nicest looking and feeling instrument in my studio and vastly superior to the previous models, if anything it is let down by the software, not the other way round.

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ozon

@Mutis wrote:

Why to buy a expensive but limited Maschine standalone when you can buy an mk3 plus macbook air M1

Why to buy an expensive but limited Minimoog when you can buy Monark plus Macbook air M1.

Same reason: It’s independent from the computer and makes me feel like playing an instrument.

Flexi

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20118#Comment_20118

I am not convinced driverkit will have a serious impact, likelyhood of Maschine being ported is very low, NI have shown little interest in iOS.

In fact, anything that needs a driver, generally will have a huge amount of development needed to port its associated software.

Take UAD as an example, they could port their DSP hardware relatively quickly, porting all the plugins to run on it is not just architectures when they are not designed for TUI.

Astralbeats_225

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20303#Comment_20303

I here everyone talk about the M+ being underpowered but honestly I make very impressive music on the M+ and as far as plugins go. You can bring reaktor effects over. Everybody wants more this and that but honestly is it necessary 😃 to make good music.

Space Cat 303

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20352#Comment_20352

I completely agree

I do everything I want to do with M+, on my knees while traveling with a battery and headphones. It's the best Groovebox I've had, and if it's not suited to your musical style and needs, just buy something else, why criticize it? The MPC does not suit me, but it does not matter, it suits other people

Kaiwan_NI

Hi @tco the latest update to Maschine addressed stability issues and added an auto sampler feature. Do you still have issues with Maschine+ crashing? Or when you were referring to robustness you were talking about sth else beyond stability issues? 🤔

tco

Hi Kaiwan, robustness on stability - an absolute must and able to operate as an instrument with out requiring significant user accommodation and fine print to be read. If it were a $499 item id be forgiving, but when NI releases a product at $1399 there's an underlying expectation . Unlike the USA i cant even return the product in asia. I'm just hoping you guys dont kill this like Kore and release a +2 leaving the early adopters mid sea. Will be good to share a development road map imv.