Maschine 3.0 General Discussion

I bought the update, but will be passing on the expansion until 3.0 is brought to Standalone, which is where we'll figure out whether things are "battle ready". I hope the team cranks out a lot more in the way of software updates to make 3.0 feel like a bigger deal. I'm not of the camp that wants to see Maschine transform into a whole DAW, but it needs to at least be better at being a groovebox. W/ Modernized Sequencing (logical operators, step probability, alternate playhead modes, etc.), aftertouch, and round-robin sampling.

So the most revolutionary feature in v3 is dropping support for my Maschine Mikro 2 and Maschine 2 (plus loads of other previously supported HW) ? And we are expected to pay for it ?

Thanks NI - I used to really value your products. Used to love Absynth especially. I had been considering (on and off) buying a Maschine+ or, more likely, the next version if it is ever released - but I absolutely have no confidence that (like Kore, Maschine Mikro 1, 2, Jam, Maschine 1, Maschine 2, etc) NI will support any of their hardware beyond the current release cycle.

Ableton now has great effects and instruments. I am now converting my instruments from Kontakt to Sampler and using the built-in tools as much as possible.

I used to really like the NI stuff - oh, well, it’s not the company it used to be.

I think it’s time to say goodbye - so long and thanks for all the fish! (I’ll keep using some of the tools until MacOS stops me but am preparing to stop using all NI stuff as soon as I can).