New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by solar28 » Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:00 pm

My understanding is that it doesn't include an audio interface ... I think some of the early press reported it included one.

I think it'd be a "definite" as how nice would it be to not need a separate audio interface ...

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by mholloway » Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:16 pm

check your sources people, there is no audio interface inside maschine studio!
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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by DJTIVA » Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:57 pm

I just unpacked my Maschine Studio. Is bigger than I thought but looks very nice. Will check it tomorrow or on Sunday.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by delicioso » Fri Nov 01, 2013 10:46 pm

3dot... wrote:
cmreal04 wrote:Not trying to to bring negativity to the party, but a grand? That's heading into octatrack territory and your standalone.....
sounds about right for maschine + color lcds + audio interface + midi hub... which is what the "studio" model is
Maschine Studio doesn't have a built-in soundcard, which makes sense. When NI removed the built-in soundcard for Kore 2, the reasons they gave were that most people weren’t making use of it and that transmitting lots of high-resolution control data from the hardware and audio over USB 2.0 sometimes caused conflicts. And Maschine has an even higher resolution than the Kore controllers.

You can find Maschine Studio for around the $800 mark, by the way, which is not bad at all considering the two high-res OLED color displays that essentially gives you a completely standalone workflow, not to mention all the dedicated buttons, beat-quantized jog wheel with an integrated click button and LED Ring indicator, a Master section where you can toggle between master/group/sound/cue meters and choose input source, 3 MIDI Out ports/1 MIDI In port, and two footswitch inputs.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by delicioso » Sat Nov 02, 2013 12:12 am

Sonic State review of Maschine 2.0/Maschine Studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9TpbsbPLyM

DubSpot on the new drum synths: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_14i4wMvs

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by eyeknow » Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:44 am

The drum synth is kinda cool but ffs, it's been done to death. I'm not a 15 y/o "producer", I do this for my own enjoyment and I kinda like having to search for sounds so it sounds pretty one-trick-pony to me.

Gonna get it though. Just not right now.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by delicioso » Sat Nov 02, 2013 4:12 am

eyeknow wrote:The drum synth is kinda cool but ffs, it's been done to death.
Actually, NI did do something that is genuinely new here with its physical modeling of acoustic and electronic drums. It has 5 different drum synths in all, each with several sound engines with some pretty unique algorithms and even involving things like "ultra-modern synthesis from Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) data of analyzed and reconstructed hi-hat samples". And most importantly, they made it really easy and intuitive to tweak to get some really good sounds fast. There's not that many alternatives to this approach. Most software drum synths out there are sample-based or just subtractive/FM synthesis.

And you can use this together with samples, especially for layering. It's not one or the other.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by continuous » Sat Nov 02, 2013 4:32 am

I'm pretty excited bout the drum synth.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by eyeknow » Sat Nov 02, 2013 4:39 am

delicioso wrote:
eyeknow wrote:The drum synth is kinda cool but ffs, it's been done to death.
Actually, NI did do something that is genuinely new here with its physical modeling of acoustic and electronic drums. It has 5 different drum synths in all, each with several sound engines with some pretty unique algorithms and even involving things like "ultra-modern synthesis from Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) data of analyzed and reconstructed hi-hat samples". And most importantly, they made it really easy and intuitive to tweak to get some really good sounds fast. There's not that many alternatives to this approach. Most software drum synths out there are sample-based or just subtractive/FM synthesis.

And you can use this together with samples, especially for layering. It's not one or the other.
Cheers!

Anyways, like I said, I'm going to buy it, I'm just not interested in "trap". So If I can do other things with it, that's fab.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by Tarekith » Sat Nov 02, 2013 5:59 am

Good Sonic State review, Gaz looks a bit excited :)
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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by TomViolenz » Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:34 am

Tarekith wrote:Good Sonic State review, Gaz looks a bit excited :)
Good review, agreed. But the dude is high on something, and it ain't Maschine..... :mrgreen:

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by Dillinger63 » Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:05 pm

TomViolenz wrote:
Tarekith wrote:Good Sonic State review, Gaz looks a bit excited :)
Good review, agreed. But the dude is high on something, and it ain't Maschine..... :mrgreen:
COFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, and a bit too much of it I'd say.

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by Tarekith » Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:45 pm

Yeah, he's usually a lot more chill on their podcasts :)
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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by yur2die4 » Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:17 pm

Any images of 2.0 on older model screens?

I want to know all the pros and cons before dishing out 100$. Did they change the tabs, control scheme, etc etc etc? Maybe a link to a forum with images of all that stuff?

Being on an '08 laptop, I think I'm in need of an update soon haha

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Re: New Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 Update

Post by delicioso » Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:23 pm

yur2die4 wrote:Any images of 2.0 on older model screens?

I want to know all the pros and cons before dishing out 100$. Did they change the tabs, control scheme, etc etc etc? Maybe a link to a forum with images of all that stuff?

Being on an '08 laptop, I think I'm in need of an update soon haha
Here's a few videos of Maschine 2.0 being used with MK1/MK2 hardware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HyDCcUMfMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72ETx43ZD0

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