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I made an account just to add this: Please, please, PLEASE set aside time to add Global BPM Automation and the ability to assign Time Signatures to either a pattern or a scene. As it is currently, I can basically only write songs in one timing and one rhythmic division unless I want to go through the work of counting things out and making uneven patterns & clips. I transcribed the sheet music to a Black Metal track called "Sculptor of Flesh" by 1349, and it requires BPM shifts for a few parts...if I ever wanted to perform this cover live with the aid of my Maschine+, I would need to bring a laptop or other sort of master clock along to perform one incredibly basic function that, in my opinion, my groovebox should already be able to do. I personally think that this feature is so absolutely fundamental, that it's a massive oversight not to have had it included when Maschine V.1 launched. The only reason journalists and youtubers HAVEN'T complained about this yet is because almost none of them create music outside of Hip Hop, EDM, or EBM. And trust me, I love industrial music in 4/4 like you wouldn't believe, but I want to be able to do more. If this feature is not included in an update this year, I'm going to start a youtube channel where I do some long-form analysis and criticism of this company (and others') products until an army of like-minded consumers demand better. I paid $1500 to ditch the computer, but I still need the computer to change global BPM & provide additional rhythmic elements in different time signatures. This is not a good feeling.

Well, ******. Imagine hiring a drummer to play in your prog rock, metal, or jazz band, and they tell you "I can't do accelerandos, decelerandos, double time, half time, any tempo changes whatsoever...oh, and if we start a song in one timing, it can't change because I get confused. My brain just doesn't work right, but if you add maybe a SECOND drummer who can keep track of all that stuff..." You'd be pissed. This is how I'm feeling about Maschine. Also, what kind of absolute fool of a developer would completely miss this feature at the beginning of the whole development process? It was marketed as a hybrid solution from the outset, so you can't tell me "well they meant it to be a plugin in your DAW". From my perspective, this should have been one of the most fundamental features to implement. This is something that should have been included in Maschine V.1. It's honestly rather ridiculous that my "drummer" can't do its job correctly because NI wants to spend their budget on "Lifestyle" ads. They could be selling more units to a wider variety of musicians, but as it stands it's basically only a good piece of kit for a small fraction of the music that can be made with synthesizers.