Will there be a version 2 update to Maschine+ or only a version 3 upgrade?

MaikR

As this discussion is running for a while now, I really would like to know if NI will (also) release the promised update for M+ version 2 instead of (just) version 3 of Maschine SW?

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/21231/more-information-on-future-updates-m

Why I’m asking? Simply because we shouldn’t be forced to upgrade to Maschine 3.0 to get the known bugs fixed.

From the ‘previous’ change log, so the update to the M+ that still has to be released: 

The changelog of the currently in test M+ update includes:

This Maschine Plus update contains the Maschine 2.18.2 App version

You should now be able to adjust sample rate and buffer size directly on Maschine Plus

New kernel version (5.15), which should fix the issues we have seen in the past with some USB Audio class compliant interfaces

Replaced the proprietary texfat driver from Tuxera with the open source exfat driver now available in the kernel

Massive has been updated to v1.6.0

So, will we still get this update? Or even better, to version 2.18.4, as that update was released a couple of weeks after the change log was posted.

[EDIT] As the original link now points to Maschine 3.0 updates, I’ve added this screenshot:

ozon

This is really a necessity for all those customers who for some reason do not want or are not able (as in "my computer is too old to run the minimal requirement OS") to upgrade to 3.0 — when it finally arrives on the M+.

Also, we've been now waiting for almost a full year to get feature parity (and therefore full Project compatibility) between the M+ standalone and Maschine desktop. Also related is the feature parity of Massive and Reaktor as it seems to be problematic for some users to get presets and ensembles created on the desktop to run on the M+.

@tetsuneko might have some more information on these issues.