because I'm curious, and honestly I never even thought of using Maschine only to write an entire song, (I use it to write entire drum parts though), what prevents you from using Scenes in Maschine to write an entire song? It's not like you cant' rearrange the Scenes and change the lengths to any measure you want to...starving student wrote:not the most fair comparison though even when comparing them only by features they both should have cause it's like if ableton live could only efficiently make loops then you wouldn't have to touch a mouse to use it either. Maschine is the only product of it's kind where expert users routinely recommend creating a song in one large pattern......... if what you actually want to do is create a song...... ffs that is ridiculous
Personally I've always thought of it like an MPC, you're not going to want to record vocals, guitar etc. into the simple samplers attached to pads. That's what Live is for. Plus I would rather arrange the song in Live with MIDI clips launching Scenes in Maschine. That way there's whole launch clips or parts of a song in Session view you can load without having to go into Maschine to rearrange the song there as well.
Barring all that, for the meat of a track I see nothing holding someone back from writing complete songs in Maschine, as long as you're not needing audio recordings of entire tracks etc.