The MASCHINE+ Feedback Thread

After reading your posts regarding this, I attempted to get my + to see Prismatic Bliss...

Copy the folder over. Remove the rx2 files. Edit the main database file, adding the UPID, name etc. Add the other files to the new folder, by copying them from another expansion and modifying them.

The + still isn't seeing it 🤔

I could, I guess, just put the files into a user folder, but it would be nice to have it listed with the others.

@ozon if you compare the Maschine+ directory to the same one on your computer, you can see the difference. Looking at the data in the extra files, logic dictates the procedure.

I'm not going to list every tiny detail, as the method didn't work anyway.

Agreed, it feels very much like we are beta testing the product. Requests:

1. Stability
2. More visual feedback (push 2 crushes in this regard)
3. Improved search capability for user content (connect to phone for QUERTY?)
4. Shortcut to select source for sidechain. Currently, it’s very slow when scrolling through each pad. My project today has a sidechain source on H1 so it took AGES to get through the list. It does not move as quickly as the desktop version, at all.
5. Audio input/interface. Most recorded/sampled sources are significantly quieter in M+ and require normalization or other processing. Same sample process in Ableton is of appropriate amplitude.
6. Optimize the whole package so we can use more products inside M+ with increased stability.
7. Desktop: “Convert midi track to audio” which would then set the stage for “Make project M+ ready” or something similar. To/From standalone and desktop.

What do users think of the workflow of editing notes/chords? I find it a bit tedious to get everything exactly in the length and place I want them. I don’t use the computer software. Latest firmware.

Will editing notes/chords improve in next firmware?

this!

yes, it would be really helpful...

I use the same technique as you but you really have to go to the lowest value and when you have notes of very different lengths it's really not practical...

I would be fine with an option (in the global settings for example) that when we adjust the length of selected notes it would automatically snap to the nearest step...We would just have to turn slightly to "quantize" the tail of the notes.

As for a true legato option (like in Ableton Live) that would automatically adjust all note lengths to chain each other perfectly, again, that would be very useful.

But,

apart from that (and only that)

on the contrary, I find the editing of notes in Maschine very efficient!

And yet I tried quite a few sequencers during all these years... Including MPCs with large touch screens. Result: it is on the piano roll of Maschine that I work most effectively!

Sure, Akai fanboys will say nothing beats a big touchscreen for note editing, but I can guarantee that's not true.

Already it is very difficult to select the right note the first time... and we just have to look at the Akai forums where lot of users ask for mouse support (gloups! on a stand-alone machine 😱😣)

or use a pen for more precision on the touchscreen

(moreover the management of touch is very badly implemented, the MPCs do not recognize 'gestures' so it amounts to going back and forth with the toolbox as with a mouse, in short: a PITA!)

I would not say no to have mouse support, but rather see a better implementation of the buttons, pads, encoders etc.

Chordmode with one “note” is one chord, chordsteps, legato etc. I have a MPC one and touchscreen is great for me, but the workflow is better (for me) on the M+, except entering notes, chords.

The big request on my list for M+ is compatibility with more content that actually came from NI. If it came in Komplete, it should work. Make it work. PLEASE! Not supporting third parties is one thing, but not supporting stuff we got from you is another. The decision to buy M+ for me was based largely off the fact that I'm an existing customer with lots of money invested in your sw.

Most of my feedback otherwise is positive! I can get up and running quickly and easily, which was not my experience with other products. I bought the M+ to use as a hub for my Eurorack setup, doing sequencing and drum sounds, and it's brilliant for that. The fact that it works with the Maschine Jam is even more brilliant! And I'm told by Expert Sleepers that the ES-9 should work directly with the M+ which...I mean, I can't ask for much more!

Except more compatibility with Kontakt instruments. I'm going to ask and ask until we have it. Kontakt is too valuable a tool to be stuck with your "selections" as a limit.