February 2025 – a community update from our Chief Product Officer

Only for beta test

It’s been released for beta testers. Are you on beta?

Edit: once again… only after posting, comments (even from more than 1 hour before) appear… sorry… I just hope the migration to another forum provider will come soon…

@MaikR "Now let me ask you something… what makes you that interested or concerned about what I’m asking or why I choose to keep my interest in Maschine Plus?"

The answer to this would involve a much wider conversation than is probably worth getting into (especially in a thread that's soon to close). But really it's nothing personal regarding you, or anyone specifically. My problem is that the constant complaining, over so many threads just rags the whole place down.

I'm not trying to censor members, and I believe it''s important that our voices are heard. However, like many such forums, those who are having a good time with their hardware and software have no need to post regularly, so the resulting conversations seem disproportionately negative. Again, (constructive) criticism is important, but there comes a point where the same requests and complaints veer into 'beating a dead horse' territory.

In the case of Maschine+, it's not a frustration I share. Being new to the Maschine scene, i have not built up years of frustration, nor do I expect to receive anything, bug-fixes aside, that wasn't with the hardware I originally bought (Happy for new features if they turn up, though). But over the 20 years I've been with NI I have certainly had my fair share of frustrations and annoyances, and still do, so I get it.

Ultimately, NI is quite the sprawling company with it's fingers in many of the pies. Such a huge 'ship' is harder to steer than smaller tug-boats. Comparing their output, customer support and product development to other companies just doesn't make any sense. The only thing to do is for each person to weigh the positives against the negatives to decide whether to stick or fold. Despite my frustrations, I'm still well ahead with positives. but I think if I felt as badly as some here, I would have already dumped NI, a long time ago.

I think I’ve made myself clear.

I have no clue where you get the idea that I don't realise that products are where they are because of previously raised concerns. I may be new to Maschine, but I've been using music software for well over two decades. I've put in many hours towards improvements of various software in the past, by offering situations and, yes, also complaints.

But none of that has anything to do with going overboard with repeating the same stuff over and over again.

Akai heavily censors their forums. MPCForum is the place to go to see any real discourse about Akai products

It's a shame that Akai are engaging in that behaviour. I doubt it's much of a leap for people to find the other forum.