Maschine+ 1.5 = OUT NOW

I have been working with the update the last 2 days and I must say that I have no problems. After the reboot it took a little long to boot the device, but then it was ok. Kudos to NI @Kai_NI

Ok, so I should have the stones to update my unit?

OMG still people are throwing toys from their prams and behaving as if they're entitled: "I bought this product so Native Instruments have to do what I say. IMMEDIATELY!"

😲

Latest on my sd-card needs formatting message after updating mare. (Apologies for delay reporting back, big delivery push this week at work)

• so I backed up, and then put the card in again, strangely it did not complain, but then I noticed I had no expansions, and after I download them it looked like it downloaded them, but after, no expansion was visible. Then worked out nothing was writing to the sdcard.
• so I reformatted the sdCard (13m old sanDisk ultra 512), reset the Maschine to it’s init state, authorised, and downloaded my expansions. Moved over my old user content folder (but it failed twice doing this, so dodgy sd-card is looking probable), fired up a electro acid funk ridim project and bob’s your uncle. Tidy. Panic over. Moral of the story don’t buy sd cards from Amazon.

The only wierd thing now is that 3/4 of the expansions are now missing their icons when looking in the browser.

Thanks, Tetsuneko. This is how I do it if I have to, however this involves uninstalling it, and all its cables and mic and power etc, from where it neatly lives (with cables tied and tidied away behind it), in my standalone space - which is deliberately away from the computer, with a rack of keyboards, so I can have a creative jamming area that isn’t in my office, in front of a computer, where I have to spend a lot of time during the rest of the week. I’ve even bought an extra power supply from NI (the one they recommend as compatible - but which is in fact too loose, and doesn’t have the locking mechanism of the original), to aid with making this more practicable. But realistically, by the time I’ve moved everything around, I’ve often run out of time, or lost the vibe. And then when I do do that - I’ve still left myself the job of putting it all back again before I can get back to work in my office. So realistically, it just tends to sit in one space or the other a lot of the time, which is a shame - especially when I’m only moving it in order to transfer a file - on a device which supports wifi. It also means changing mode, which also requires a restart.

Another nice middle ground might be if I could leave it permanently connected via usb for file transfer (I could potentially run a really long cable, and cover it with tape so no one trips over it where it would cross doorway) - but while still being able to have it operate in standalone, powering the speakers in my computer free zone. This would also mean I could use the unit with my computer, and quickly move files - without burning my mac’s cpu playing tracks that could be using the maschine+’s internal processing power. I run its outs into my UAD apollo and its onboard DSP for this reason sometimes, when it’s in the office - as my mac is currently the weakest link in the chain (I’m just using UAD Luna on the mac as a tape recorder with baked in UAD DSP effects) and I can’t (yet) quite justify/spare the outlay on the kind of Mac I’ll want to upgrade to next). It seems a shame burning mac CPU power Maschine 2 when the Maschine+ has its own just sitting there - just in order to enable transferring files easily - again, on a device which is wifi capable :)

I hope that makes the use cases a little clearer. It just seems a real shame and inconvenience that I can’t just stay in standalone mode, and send out a file over the wifi network.

Even better would be an NI Cloud area (they muuust be working on one, right? Potentially for an updated Maschine with more juice, further down the line - but I can imagine making it work across so many legacy instruments is probably a tough task.

But Rome wasn’t built in a day (and trust me, I understand design and development processes well - and what I think I’m sensing here is a very enthusiastic, caring and well intentioned, possibly relatively newly reassigned, team who I’m grateful to see so engaged - and who I’m guessing will be doing their best over the coming months and really are listening - especially if we don’t beat them up to much in their first few sprints! - much of which inevitably usually means laying some less exciting, foundational groundwork when a new team gets assigned, potentially with the previous team’s help) - I’m looking forward to seeing what’s coming - just getting my vote in early for some simple, low cost/complexity way of sending a project across wifi without at least 10 mins rearranging my spaces - and then another ten putting it all back. It’d just take one little bit of a spontaneity killer out of the way!

To be clear, I have no inside knowledge here - just many years of designing and speccing systems in challenging environments!

Happy holidays to all - and I’m looking forward to seeing what else comes along!

I thought i'd found another bug after adding another sample pack i'd just made and it not being visible in my User library, but it seems I needed to run for a while so it could update all the content on the sd card.

Having nearly 300Gb of content, I left it running for maybe 20 mins while I cleaned the cooker and it had finished by the time I got back. Rebooted it and it now takes slightly longer than before, about 27s to boot up and around 1m 8s to finish scanning my content compared to about 25s and 47s before, from 1 timed run.