Is Maschine Plus a beta for an awesome next release?

That's supper interesting. I just bought a maschine+ for $630 on Ebay. I might go for the Frankenstein on it..

Send the link to the higher cpu! I'm that brave soul.

I definitely understand what it is they made. I think my frustrations is loving the device so much. When I use it like my mpc 2500 with mainly sampling one shots and vinyl its fine. But What I feel is a lot of users including myself would have paid the extra bit of coin to have the higher spec. Because it starts to become evident very quickly that it can't handle a lot of things. More so audio crackles at 65-75% shouldn't be happening. But my biggest frustration comes in the form of I want to sit down turn on maschine+ and make some sounds its not an intuitive interface. I know the synth vst's on computers have more real estate. But not coming up with some for standalone is a head scratcher. You to have make everything on the computer an import a preset and that just boggles my mind. I don't want to do that. It's fun to do preset jams an stuff but I love making my own sounds. I just wish there was a better interface utilizing the screens.

My hope like everyone's is they refine the software for the platform. I do understand how they made it. But makes you wonder why they did it the way they did and not for see these problems just from a code stand point and the standalone stand point.

One reason I will never sell the 2500. It just works and is easy to fix.. I don't know what will happen in 5-10 years time with the maschine+ and if it's still supported or if you can get parts for them. It's a great piece of gear but will be interesting on the part front in years to come as well.

If that suits you, use MK3 with M1. I use it with AMD based Win PC with techspec that suit me. And yet another people use Maschine+ and it suits them.

And if one day M+ Mk2 comes and it will have techspec that will meet my needs, I will use it.

We do not live in binary world.

PS.

And, by the way macOS runs also on AMD CPUs, why shouldnt it. And Maschine might probably run on Linux based PC. In Windows emulation mode.

regarding a cpu model change: the processing board inside the m+ is interchangable.

current board: https://www.congatec.com/en/products/qseven/conga-qa5/

so swapping it with the latest Elkhart Lake celerons is theoretically possible.

(like these: https://www.congatec.com/en/products/qseven/conga-qa7/)

from the board producer roughly 50% more power:

https://www.congatec.com/de/technologien/intel-elkhart-lake/

And currently prices for second hand Akai MPC/Force units are equally low… as are for other musical high end gear from Mesa Boogie amps to Moog synths.

Seems more related to the pandemic than to the device quality.

One may use Mk3 and Apple now, OR use Mk3 and Win Laptop now, instead of M+. According to Apple marketshare, more people have chosen the latter. There may be more reasons, but price might be one of them...

That is how economy works.

One of the AS architects has left Apple for Intel quite recently. Rumours say, that programmers in Apple complain about wages and keep leaving Apple.

And by the way, it is no problem for Intel and AMD produce ARM CPUs... If there is demand for them.... But x86 is industry standard, there is so much SW, so much money has been invested. So, ARM would have to bring real benefits to make market to swap. The more probable path is, that x86 improves power consumption, than that ARM will end x86 era.

M2 seems to focus on graphics part of APU, not that much CPU... If it goes that way few years longer AS will not be competetive to x86 that develops fast.

Well, how many cores had i7 10 years ago? Four. Now it is 16 full cores, at least for AMD. Four times more. And those cores are much better then the ones 10 years ago.

But you are right, there was period of many years when there was not much improvements... (It might be one of the reasons Apple decided to go Apple Silicon) But past 4-5 years, since AMD came with Zen CPUs, the competition made Intel to move the butt.

Currently one may see 10-20% per year CPU power improvement (per core) and at the same time more and more cores. Say, double per four years. In 10 years x86 CPU will do about 10 times more work than today.

Apple will have hard times to keep the pace. There is competition between Intel and AMD. And they both will also compete with Apple to show x86 has the place on the earth....