Maschine 3.0 General Discussion

But, you feel me here, right? The whole "you are the only one with this issue" isnt true, and going in that direction causes blood to boil when customers are trying to get help on a public facing forum.

Again - in the end Im using MK3 in midi mode. This has become too much trouble to maintain in my templates, so I stopped using it. Sometimes Ill use cubase, which has fewer problems with maschine than Bitwig, and the rest of the time Im just in BWS using Triaz or using the mk3 for random things. Maybe some day this will get better. Maybe not.

You've personally tried every single piece of production software or DAW in existence, and confirmed that Maschine is worse than all of them? Colour me sceptical.

A DAW in any flavour is a tool just as Maschine is a tool. In the right hands they're both capable of producing commercial ready songs. Maschine excels in it's role along with the Maschine hardware in giving a largely computer free integration, more so with Maschine+.

I've moved on to Ableton Live along with Push but I still like to sketch ideas in Maschine before moving them across to my DAW, this suits my workflow very well.

I got back into producing some 15 years ago most of which was dedicated to Maschine and Komplete and although it's had it's frustrations along that journey, by and large I've enjoyed the ride.

Nail on the head ;P I think there are broadly 2 types of users: musicians, that can use most tools to get the ideas in their heads into actual music, and are able and willing to work around limitations and quirks because they feel a creative urge to "record" their musical ideas with any means available to them.

And then there is the other group: lovers of (music) technology, that want to play around with synths, samplers, software, and if this produces some actual music that's worth listening to, that would be awesome, but that's not the main purpose.

Comparable to someone just tinkering with a guitar on the couch, for fun and relaxation, or someone actually recording guitar-based songs on a rusty tascam 4track.

I would be interested to see what NI could do with a DAW, but they don't HAVE to make one.

I do think they could be better at what they ARE doing, but I think we are trying to define what NI should be based on different personal parameters.

That's funny lmaaaao! So you believe the people who want to avoid the troublesome routing of maschine inside their DAWs, who prefer just to use maschine as a glorified soundpack player (because lets face it — that is its greatest strength and role) to access NI's curated, specifically paired content = casuals? And those who use the frustrating, limited, ancient sequencer inside maschine - and dont use a powerful DAW - are the real ones??? Tell me it aint so!!! ROFFFL

Usually by dragging and dropping from Maschine directly onto a track in Ableton either as midi data or converting to an audio track dependant on what's required.