2025 Outlook: Maschine, Kontrol, and NKS Hardware Partnerships

I'd say this is a pretty accurate wishlist for pretty much everyone in at least the user library community, if not the entire KK userbase. I started a thread with some of the NKS editor feature requests more fleshed out here:

But honestly would be super happy if anything on @Kymeia 's list got implemented this year.

The only other thing I'd add would just be performance improvements for KK - faster load times, fewer crashes, etc.

nailed it.

@Matthew_NI (or @Chris_NI )

Can I ask you (if some Play Series will really come to M+) what made you think that announcing the MPC versions without at least hinting at them coming also to the M+ (in a better version, it seems) was a good idea? In any case you practically announced it anyway a week later… wouldn’t it have been better to plan a better made announcement to avoid any possibility of users feeling sad (to use an euphemism…)?

You even spent the first couple of days answering us “but M+ users have received X instruments with the Central Expansion”, “but we were able to do MPC versions because they are sampled with their sampler”,…

We know NI is famous for wanting to keep everything secret till the last second… but… specially in a case like this, where no new, innovating, astonishing stuff was announced (in the end it’s just a porting), I’m sure a better way to do it could have been found.

Lack of internal communication… or really weird strategy?

Or…third possibility (which I hope is not the case, otherwise we’ll probably see them when I’m already six feet under)… you decided now to make them available also for M+ because of the backlash (which was more than foreseeable). In which case, if you are starting to plan it now, then will come the developing stage, then your testing, then beta, then bugs fixes,…( not to name the stops that will come when teams will switch to other tasks) we will not see them before… forever…(which is unluckily part of Soon, in NI conception).

And…while I’m here…can I ask you if you also thought at porting some “real” instruments? Atm, what M+ is really missing is some more “clean” pianos, violins, breath,… not more “sinthy” sounds.
I’m asking because I think you could sell (for an adequate price) some of those, not because I really need them (luckily you gave us Autosampler and I already took care of my needs in that way).

(Btw: I didn’t add Bass to the list of “real” instruments because your recent decision to stop selling Scarbees makes me think you have something against analog Bass 😂…or that you are planning to release new instruments of this family to sell)

Is there (or will there be) a time signature per scene feature in Maschine 3?

Believe me… beats can be made also with “real” instruments. I would even dare to say most of the instruments in hip hop beats are not synths.

Probably you missed A LOT of 90s rap, if you think violins are not fitted for beats 😂😂😂

Or didn’t notice how much piano there is in chill hip hop (that was so popular in last years).

Who won the “best live band” prize for many consecutive years? The Roots… an hip hop group.

It all depends on which type of beats you listen to.

And about the sampler aspect, being used also to make sample beats…guess what kind of instruments are in the Soul and Jazz tracks sampled to make it?

Soulquarian collective without “real” instruments? (and some of the best players of the era, like Pino Palladino, Roy Hargrove, Karriem Riggins, Robert Glasper, D’Angelo and Questlove themselves,… closed for days in Electric Lady Studios (yes, the one founded by Jimi Hendrix) to jam all together )

Thank you but…no, thank you ☺️

Btw: I never asked to “change it to something different”, but to expand it, exactly as you say. And I’m sure many musicians use Maschine to make many different music styles. That’s why we see so many people asking features that would make it closer to a DAW (rightly or not)

Understood.

My remark was more about a not so well done announcement (specially if, as you say, everything was already programmed)