Maschine plus upgrades (ableton push 3 released)

Honestly, for me, the appeal of Maschine+ is that it's not as powerful as a laptop; Yet, it can run all of my bread-and-butter NI plugins, which means I can run crazy reaktor patches & M4L devices on my laptop instead. With that said, it's kinda lame that none of the music tech companies can seem to get the "hybrid standalone" thing right. There are always caveats and compromises made, seemingly for no reason, or for ridiculous reasons that only a fool would come up with. Push 3, I thought, would be a game-changer; However it's too middle-of-the-road, and way too expensive for what it is. An i3 is at once both too powerful, and too weak for the device. It's more powerful than all other grooveboxes on the market, but somehow it's not enough to run even a custom version of ableton without bugs. Maschine+ however, in spite of some crashes, runs the Maschine software pretty well, in spite of how weak it is compared to an actual PC.

For me, the appeal of Maschine+ is also in the limitations and ease of use. And of course the sound of massive and drum synth.

When push 3 was released i almost fell for the hype.. But i’m more than happy with my maschine plus!

sure i’d love some new fearures, like probability and full access to massive and fm8 parameters. But with the addition of a Toraiz Squid (total budget under the cost of push 3 controller), i realy don’t need anything else.

oh, but i got to admit that i’m a little jealous of push 3:s mpe capabilities 😊

My motivation in inserting iPad consideration is NOT to promote Apple in any way.

My motivation is selfishly wanting the most friction-free & flexible music production system possible that is also in the the realm of actually happening within emerging technologies and market forces.

Buy a Mac Book, or a Windows tablet. It is literally the same thing.

It's not about now, it's about later. And new strategies to actually get there vs repeating old mistakes.

The more powerful and feature rich the device becomes, the more restrictive it will be because of lack of big screen, keyboard or mouse.

This sounds self-contradictory.

I agree that M+ is in a sense actually preserving good balance between features and restrictions.

I also have Akai Force but I feel t’s workflow is too much dependent on touch screen to cope with its complexity as a whole.

I prefer much more to just turn knobs, hit buttons, then slam those pads.

It will be nice if M+ have good update but still please keep things simple.