What is Maschine 3.0 for?

It’s still probably the least cumbersome experience of any standalone device out there. And it could be the best experience in general, if the heavily lacking tools and features for Editor and Pattern which have been proposed for years would finally find their way into Maschine (Plus).

editing notes within a single pad melody is indeed not bad using the HW

editing notes within a pattern for a group used as a drum kit (with diff drums on diff pads) is however annoying using the HW IMO

simple use case: copy a section (say 1/2 a bar) of a drum beat from the existing pattern to somewhere else in that pattern or to another pattern

in melodic single pattern mode u can just set X/Y bounds to draw a virtual selection square around the notes you want to select

you can't do the same to select several midi notes across multiple pads at once

you CAN draw a selection square around several midi notes across multiple pads using a mouse in the Maschine SW so it is possible!

if only NI could make a way to do the same X/Y bound selection of notes accross multiple pads within a pattern on the HW!

(have been wishing for this for years… is a big but IMO solvable limitation of using the HW)

In Event mode, you can select Events using the encoders by restricting the time and note range.

Time = X-axis
Note = Y-axis

this exactly, sorry wasn't good at explaining it

but when you want to do the same for the events for multiple pads at once (aka most every drum pattern) you can't do the same X/Y selection technique, only way to do it is with a mouse in the SW

I think you have some interesting points and ideas here. I feel most of us here that are rather "vocal" on the Maschine "platform" are mainly seeing the huge potential that is lying in front of our feet, if only a few "quality of life" features would be implemented. You already mention a more "logical/intuitive" way of handling multiple note management, which make total sense, and a good pro UX designer should be able to pull it off…

I'm also dreaming of a "Roland SH101 way" of entering chords in step/note record mode, it can be done quiet easily and elegantly, and will vastly improve the creative powers of Maschine.

Of course fixing a few "clips" issues, mainly to make it more logical and intuitive. The use case of clips is clear to me: Roland Verselab MV1 style, i.e. the ability to easily record (and comp/edit) audio tracks that cross pattern-barriers, without loosing the power of groovebox-style patterns, and without getting confused about the mode/view you are working in.

And lastly: a few important improvements in the sampler module, to get it into year 2024 (timestretch, round robin, drum-mode support like Battery has etc.), and being able to record arrangement/mixer-level movements and automation (mute, solo, faders, aux etc.)

So close….