The Maschine 4 (Speculative) Thread

I'm waiting for "As used by Bigfoot!" in the advertising campaign for the next edition and that advertising to be echoed on all NI products...why waste perfectly good advertising space after all..................in fact the next hardware could utilise a third screen purely for advertising🤑

Once upon a time (most of the 90s), I would save up for weeks, sometimes even months to buy dj and production gear while having an expensive record collecting hobby on the side. Then, I had to put the hours in to learn how to use it all and I was happy. Limitations weren’t a thing I thought of, I was just thinking, “what can I do with this great gear” and eventually I started getting better with it, and making music I was reasonably proud of.

Now we have kick ass gear, I see companies and YouTubers being savaged by mobs, baying for blood because of a company’s approach to releasing new gear too soon and it’s ethics and the perceived loyalty to said company by a YouTuber who has taken most of the flack for promoting it.

We’ve become very fickle and demanding , when we can usually be happy working with what we already have.

I guess me buying things for what they can actually do rather than me buying things for what I imagine they could do puts me in a good headspace for acceptance of gear.

I think that's what most people buying into most other industries would expect too if they were reasonable with their expectations, apart from maybe music and film, where we hope to be entertained and surprised, but occasionally are left feeling otherwise.

Ignorance certainly can be and ignorance in the case of mistaken expectation can lead to perpetual unhappiness.

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

When have you ever bought something for what you hope it can become? I certainly have never. That seems like a stupid thing to do! “I’m buying this microwave not for its ability to microwave, but for the hope of it becoming a Time Machine! It has the potential to be just that. I just hope its developers will listen to my ideas of how it can evolve with a few firmware updates and a few minor add-ons to the hardware”.

Buying something for what it does is OK and yes you kinda hope it will get better and stop looking like it does things it doesn't do in any useful way, but is it so totally unreasonable to expect that they don't actually break it or make it worse?......................

I know it’s a bad comparison, but that’s to make a simple point and a clear metaphorical thought over the principle of what/why you buy vs expectations vs reality. I would never buy anything I don’t like based on hope/wishes of what it could be and then expect it to become that and later become disappointed and hysterical about it not becoming what I thought it would be. That’s just plain idiotic.

ps: not calling you and idiot D, I understand maybe you bought some software to support a company, but you didn’t do it with hopes of it becoming something, you bought it as it is, surely you’ll be glad when it evolves but your whole happiness and existence isn’t relying on that I assume.

You truly enjoy rushed untested products?