If NI came out tomorrow and announced that they are going to stop developing new features for Maschine (hardware + software) and they were going to do one last big update, what essential features (try to be realistic) would you wanna see that would extend the life of Maschine as a production system long after development ended?
For me it would be:
Hardware:
- Custom scales, chords, and arp patterns
- Making the controller “open-source” or highly moddable. The controller editor is nice but pretty limited in terms of using all of the hardware’s features
Software:
- Combination of sampler and audio devices
- External control surfaces can be used as modulators and can record automation
- Better clip composition, i.e. combining clips in song view and then being able to create a pattern out of them to use in scenes
NI, please don’t ever stop development for Maschine, you’ve come a long way and have made something really special.
