Maschine 2 automation in action (examples)

I hate to be that guy but technically it's Modulation, everyone does say 'Automation' tho. AFAIK the issue is the step resolution available and/or the fact Maschine doesn't interpolate between steps.

To elaborate a bit:

Without SHIFT Modulation in MAS seems to be limited to a range of 101 values, (0.00 to 1.00). With SHIFT I am not sure if there is a higher resolution or if steps are just recorded more often, the GUI still only shows 101 values when SHIFT is used so this is a bit confusing to me. On something like a filter that can be anywhere from 0hz to 75616hz** only 101 values won't be enough so it will be jumpy. The fact that Modulation is relative to Knob Position in Maschine might play a part in all this but I'm not sure.

• With a regular MIDI CC we also only have 7-bit resolution, 128 steps; that's more than 101 but not by much.
• Then there's NRPN / high-resolution CC / 14bit - 16384 steps, which AFAIK is not part of the MIDI 1.0 spec, the only control with a resolution close to that is the Pitch Bend.

So... On a DAW using regular MIDI CC has sort of the same issue as in Maschine but the DAW interpolates the difference between two 7bit Step's in 14bit, resulting in a lot more smoothness, like so:

In the above example GIF (captured with a lot of zoom-IN) Ableton is filling the gaps between a step at 170Hz to another at around 480Hz give or take, Maschine not doing this is the main issue I think.

**Note: Volcano shows a max of 75616hz instead of up to 44100hz or whatever your sample rate is set up at, probably because of Oversampling, Nyquist rate, and all that jazz??

For STEP sequencing I think Maschine is great, no complaints altho I don't really use it.

I don't think that will ever be possible without a very big overhaul to Modulation, right now the focus is dealing with Apple's M1 shananings, before that the focus was Clips, some VST3 stuff also seems close so I wouldn't count on anything changing for Modulation anytime soon.

There's also some correlation between fancy interpolation or modulation/automation lines and a mouse VS a device that works like a standalone and has to be simple, MAS tends to avoid new features that require a mouse like the plague, unfortunately... I'm guessing with the release of the M+ things just got even more sensitive in this topic.

Modulation is such a problem for me that I basically gave up on using it in Maschine, there are no curves / points, copy, paste, move, etc... The last 3 are essential to me and I often require high editing detail and the possibility of changing / moving things around efficiently, MAS is terrible at both for my personal needs. I've made peace with the fact MAS is just a sketch pad for me, but for others, it might be a 1 stop shop to do everything, it's very subjective.

AFAIK that's only a problem in Windows with the DIN MIDI Out, no?