I have some nice ones based on madrona labs soft synths.
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Unlike the current mpc line there’s no autosampler so i used the one in the free mpc beats computer program to take the samples for the simple instruments I made. fm8 and massive don’t even have all the controls exposed so it’s fiddling with presets on those (although there are a lot of presets so there is a lot of bread and butter stuff if you can be bothered ploughing through them) When it comes to making your own sounds it’s easy enough on the drum synths and the 303 type synth that goes with them and pretty easy on monark too. It’s good for electric pianos, organs and string synths There are a few things in the native instruments content I have found that are useful for me. You can search purely by user added content though and this is a much more pleasant experience for me – I have a few gigs of drum samples on there which I have made into kits (which is easy enough), some reaktor stuff (mainly filters and wave folders as I don’t like the stock filter that much), a few dx synth patches I converted using the computer version of fm8 and a load of simple sample based instruments I made (setting these up is pretty quick too) all of this is really brightly coloured and in your face
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It comes with an incredible amount of drum hits, drum kits, sampled instruments and presets for all the synths plus more huge expansion packs ready to download and vouchers for more that you can download from their website to get you used to their ecosystem. When i first set up the maschine+ it really did seem like it might be too much a pipeline for native instruments content. I’ve not had any of the crashes that some people have and my wants for it are fairly simple – play drums samples and very simple sampled instruments, simple sequencing of external synths recorded back into the maschine+ and being able to export stems at the end of it I am using it and so far I really like it.
I’d expect those improvements to also be useful for when controlling the software, so at least they don’t need to create Maschine+ only functionality for this.Īnd your point about presets browsing + fiddling is also a bit of a “fear”, I’d just like to be able to easily create my own sounds, but of course NI lives of selling expansions, so it’s probably not in their interest.ĭo these issues with creating sounds also apply to the Are you using one as well? What do you mean exactly with regards to the workflow and not getting into contact with the built-in stuff? I can understand this is probably because of the computer controller based heritage (the UI was on the computer screen), but I really hope they make improvements here. The screens for their built-in synths totally don’t make sense to me, what’s the point of having a static screenshot of an instrument? They should provide a meaningful UI instead.
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It does touch on one thing though, which is how does it currently work for hardware synths for which there’s no out of the box mapping? Is the only way to create a mapping with the software on a computer? That would be quiet disappointing Regarding CC control, AFAIK this works, and can also be automated just like for internal synths (see for example ). Thanks for sharing your experiences with it! So at the moment I am actually only using the filters and lofi fx in the unit. The most basic delay it has is always synced to the tempo and does not self oscillate. is no ‘normal’ delay in the device at the moment. And I would really like if NI added some of their studio fx to the Maschine+, as there e.g. make tiny helper plugins in Blocks to overcome the limitations of the software. Only the Moog emulation (I forgot the name) can be used rather easily, as it just has that classic signal flow.
You have to know the plugin and its signal flow by heart and then still don’t get all the parameters of the software version.
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But making a patch from scratch is almost impossible. I believe the idea is to just load up presets and then fiddle with the values a bit. You are just given a bunch of parameters that are often not clearly named. The screens don’t show you any information about how the instruments are layed out. Regarding software instruments, I don’t find the implementation of the available NI plugins very good.
More free approaches can be done, but you have to work against the unit in many ways, which can be tiresome or rewarding, depending on how you see things.įor sequencing other gear, keep in mind that at the moment, there is no CC control. So if that is your thing, you might want to consider it. The actual Maschine and how it is structured really wants you to stay on grid and make beat driven music. I love the hardware, how it feels and looks. It is a piece if gear I feel somewhat conflicted about.
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