Maschine+ ~1 year with no updates = abandonware

Yes they have both plugins and hosts but so do Steinberg and Akai, both of whom have been churning out updates at a good clip because they finished updating their plugins and hosts a while ago. Look it’s just impossible to deny that something around software development and planning at NI has gone badly awry ( check Glassdoor for details) and I don’t know when or if they are going to be able to get it back on track. At the moment they are focused on churning out packs and Kontakt instruments because that’s where the quick $ can be made with minimal effort in outlay and man hours. I just find it hard to rationalize that they aren’t aware they are falling behind and the brand is getting damaged because it seems pretty obvious looking at comments across their social media and with a PI buyout’s notorious attitude of ‘make money now’ it doesn’t appear anything will change anytime soon. Hell it wasn’t changing BEFORE the PI buyout now I think about it so I don’t know what the issue is.

They shouldnt have, but they did. I can only imagine this was because the Maschine desktop userbase is multiple magnitudes larger than M+ userbase, and postponing all updates from both platform until both are ready would have pissed off much more users

And again, thinking for NI Devs or Product Lead (who's responsible for both).

Please, give them the opportunity to answer these kind of questions. Because from my point of view it wouldn't make any sense: first waiting for years and then over sudden you're willing to sacrifice your goodwill? Neh... don't think so.

Enjoy your new life without Maschine 👍

The whole ‘you bought it and that’s it’ model hasn’t existed in any tech for almost two decades now. I’d love it if it was ‘fire and forget’, and I could just go back to an St hooked up to an S2000 and a phat planet and everything is golden but this is a whole new paradigm. You have constant updates for API’s, operating systems, DAW’s, high DPI screens and standards like VST2, VST3, ARA, and Clap being updated etc. It’s constant non stop evolution and if a company cannot reliably and promptly keep up then you quickly end up with relic-ware so expecting to operate with that old mindset of ‘this is the finished product’ is just a bit silly.

I mentioned earlier it would be different if MK3 or M+ were discontinued but they aren’t, they are being sold right now as the flagship HW products of NI’s current lineup and it’s not like they don’t have much more competition than they ever did when the first Maschine was launched so you would think that to maintain the share of the market that NI currently holds then they would want to at least have parity with these new offerings. It certainly seems their customers do. It’s just interesting to see how other companies approach the needs that the nature of this constantly evolving marketplace demands in contrast with how NI are faring and people are simply starting to look elsewhere for updated options that are better suited to their needs. The anger you’re seeing isn’t borne out of a vacuum, I can remember surveys( there’s been a lot of those artificially raising hopes lol), discussions, vague promises etc going back 9-10 years on the abandoned old forum, this isn’t really about the slow VST3 adoption or the ARM thing (or sounds.com or Maschine Jam or…..)which was the same, it’s a nigh on decade old cumulation of frustration. Remember MK3 is still currently being sold and yet it is reliant on software that came out when people were just starting to switch over from using Windows XP lol.

People are just starting to drift away is all.

Really? Your evidence is.....?

You can't possibly know that every single piece of technology released globally for 20 years has received updates.

That sums it up nicely.