Maschine Plus Update Coming?

What are you „super hyped“ about?

So, this is the list from the release notes, minus those which are not applicable to the M+ in standalone:

ADDED Ability to separate Sampler audio into Vocals/Bass/Drums/Other stems

ADDED Ability to bounce in place, rendering MIDI Sound Slots to Audio to save CPU, or for resampling

ADDED Ability to import/load MP3, MP4, FLAC, OGG

ADDED Ability to set custom tempos per scene

ADDED Ability to Split/Join/Erase/Mute/Draw/Hear/Point/Pencil and use a Computer MIDI keyboard using new MIDI editing tools

ADDED Audio Preview of MIDI note editing

ADDED Basic Kontrol S MK3 integration for Transport, Play Assist, and NKS plug-in hosting and control when used with Maschine 3 standalone application

ADDED Ability to properly Reset Playhead to Zero

ADDED Ability for Maschine 3 VST3 to automatically replace Maschine 2 in DAWs that support this

ADDED Support for HiDPI plug-in hosting (varies per DAW)

ADDED Update KPI plugin view below the Mixer

ADDED Support for the latest version of Ableton Link, including Start/Stop messages

ADDED Expanded I/O (up to 16 stereo, 32 mono channels)

ADDED New darker user interface for visual comfort during longer creative sessions

FIXED A large number of miscellaneous bugs

It seems a lot of users would already be very happy if 8 channels actually worked with their (off brand) audio interface.

On that background, I wonder how NI wants to offer 32 on the M+.

There were several threads about which „class compliant“ audio interfaces actually work, this is probably the longest:

interesting to hear the motu 16a works.

The 8A works for about 5 minutes and then the audio drops out (at least that's my experience). I've had it since release. On the older M+ firmware; it would work fine for a few minutes and then slowly degrade the audio. It sounded like a bitcrush effect was on the master. Now it drops completely AND any midi being sent to the output seems to be a little slower than the actual tempo. I don't remember the exact numbers; but I'm sure I added it to the audio interfaces thread. It's incredibly weird. In all cases, turning the knob in settings fixes it for a couple of minutes

The annoying thing: Sometimes it corrects itself. So if you just leave a project playing for an hour; you might come back and it seems fine. In reality, it might have dropped all audio for 40 minutes while you were away.

I can confirm M+ can use both my RME UCX and Zoom H8. It sees all of the I/O as expected, plays, records, etc. I can't confirm either works properly because I've never tried to put them through the paces for a few hours.