The Maschine & Ableton Love Thread ;) [upon user request]

[timothyallan]

can you use the xox sequencer to record straight into live/logic and have it play back from the recorded region? That would be one way to get the xox feature, and use groove templates as well.

[jake noise]

can you use the xox sequencer to record straight into live/logic and have it play back from the recorded region? That would be one way to get the xox feature, and use groove templates as well.

Do you want to record midi or audio?

Midi can't be recorded (yet), but you can drag and drop midi patterns created using the xox sequencer which you could then apply a groove template to. This can be used to then retrigger the sounds in maschine.

Audio can also be recorded (on up to 8 different stereo outputs) and then have a groove template applied.

[starving student]

are you sure, I'm pretty sure that deliscios repsonse meant that it was possible?

[Nick Shepherd]

Had a few hours with Maschine yesterday - so far i am loving it

I was pleasantly surprised how fast i got with it after a short while.

Also, i totally love the build quality and the feel of the pads - really really nice...

looking forward to dive deeper into Maschine and as stated many times before, the integration in Live makes this product pure win

great job from the NI guys !

[timothyallan]

I was 10 minutes from buying one today, but they were out of stock till next week.

[SubFunk]

yep sub', first weeks with the maschine alone were so "headache free" that I was really happy to see that integration within live was NOT 100% easy (*), and that I still could struggle with stuff like IAC driver and complex midi assignations to manage the (almost) perfect integration

well this is where my love for maschine is, i am not into any of that nerd shit, i just love music and with maschine opposed to ableton live (not talking about integration, just standalone) i just can headache free create, without all that technical nonsense attached, i just hope it stays this way and that nerd fuckers don't place more and more requests and making it more and more complex... and fuck it up just like ableton did, the beauty of it for me is in the utter simplicity, get away from that technical shit and just hammer out wicked & sexy beats, for gods sake!!! it's about music and not a technical wank fest!

[supamonsta]

i just hope it stays this way and that nerd fuckers don't place more and more requests and making it more and more complex... and fuck it up just like ableton did, the beauty of it for me is in the utter simplicity, get away from that technical shit and just hammer out wicked & sexy beats, for gods sake!!! it's about music and not a technical wank fest!

agreed 100% for the will that maschine stays simple and bugfree, not following the ableton 8 route.... (that's why I request some separate "update packs", allowing to choose what we need and let the rest go)

But for the "nerd part" of our discussion, I think that some updates of maschine could avoid struggling for complete integration within live..

and also that some (perhap's little) features still need to be implemented in maschine to improve its "easyness", even for standalone use (CCs and PCs for sequencing external synths, multiple standalone instances, improved sequencer...)

anyway I agree with you with the fact that maschine is already quite a complete great tool,

but I disagree with your opinion about "nerd shit", because that "shit" can greatly improve workflow ease and composition process, once you got it done...

I'm both a composer AND an "audio nerd", both parts supporting each other, and I always have alternating phases of composition and "nerd shit" ...

YOU don't like struggling with stuff like virtual midi routers, complex multi-software / hardware integration, etc., but that doesn't mean it's only shit, does it??

cheers

[kristian]

This thread made me buy one today... got this and Trillian .. totally broke now, but hope its worth it! Installing Trillian takes forever though.... 5 discs... gah... me impatient!

[SubFunk]

that some (perhap's little) features still need to be implemented in maschine to improve its "easyness", even for standalone use (CCs and PCs for sequencing external synths, multiple standalone instances, improved sequencer...)

agreed 100% some improvements i like to see as well... i am just 'scared' they do the same mistakes ableton did, following 'nerds' rather then following musicians and simple users, that just want to work with a tool instead of digging there head into the tool itself.

i just love the easiness and consequent simplicity of maschine... get's much more creative work done this way.

[SubFunk]

This thread made me buy one today... got this and Trillian .. totally broke now, but hope its worth it! Installing Trillian takes forever though.... 5 discs... gah... me impatient!

i don't know yet one single user or heard of one that has been not utterly satisfied or even overwhelmed by maschine...

i am pretty confident you are not going to be the first changing that.

[supamonsta]

Sub you should get $$$ from NI for such a powerful commercial help

just ordered a DSI tetra BTW, well, I'm a real gearslut

[squelcht]

This thread made me buy one today... got this and Trillian .. totally broke now, but hope its worth it! Installing Trillian takes forever though.... 5 discs... gah... me impatient!

i don't know yet one single user or heard of one that has been not utterly satisfied or even overwhelmed by maschine...

i am pretty confident you are not going to be the first changing that.

I Fk'N HATE MASCHINE





...because I never get any sleep @ night, my girlfriend thinks I'm cheating on her & I have evil Ableton Drum Rack fairies who torment me in my sleep because I have condemned them USELESS.

[supamonsta]

I'm also selling Drum Machines...

lolz

musician nerds' girls know what they risk

[SubFunk]

Sub you should get $$$ from NI for such a powerful commercial help

well i should get this from various companies when it comes to how much i made people by certain stuff... but all i usually get is lousy T-shirts.

[kristian]

This thread made me buy one today... got this and Trillian .. totally broke now, but hope its worth it! Installing Trillian takes forever though.... 5 discs... gah... me impatient!

i don't know yet one single user or heard of one that has been not utterly satisfied or even overwhelmed by maschine...

i am pretty confident you are not going to be the first changing that.

I Fk'N HATE MASCHINE





...because I never get any sleep @ night, my girlfriend thinks I'm cheating on her & I have evil Ableton Drum Rack fairies who torment me in my sleep because I have condemned them USELESS.

hmmm.... still installing it... last chance to change my mind.. I´m afraid that when I start it for the first time, I will no longer be able to sleep... already its evil pads are tempting me... its like it already has its own gravitational pull... must be strong... must be... ooo.. finished installing.... bye cruel world!