Again, there's no logical reason that Push 3 Standalone with Live Suite capabilities should be less of a sequencer than the MPCs. Yes, that is how it is right now I understand that, it's very limited. I'm just always amazed at how prone to apologetics people are about this with companies like Ableton? Don't get me wrong I like them, but I'm not going to propose that standalone is like it is because push 2 does it that way. That's flatly a silly argument, because Push 2 is always 100% tied to a computer. Meaning Push 2 in it's natural environment is light years ahead of Push 3 in it's natural environment, without a computer. There's nothing to argue about there, pretending you can compare them in terms of functionality without addressing that Push 2 always has access to a laptop or computer is insane. Ableton have talked about getting some sort of way to arrange a song on standalone, multiple time signature support etc. etc. this isn't some sort of gripe they didn't see coming, and they probably were/are already working on it before Push 3 was released.funkazoid wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 8:06 pmWell, push 3 is positioned as an Instrument allowing you to play Ableton live, create music and connect back to live.
When you say should, in my view that is a projection of expectations. The simple truth is that push 3 is released with the functions as they are today and very consistent with the previous two hardware versions. We don’t know if and how it will evolve.
If that satisfies your needs is a different question, same if that represents value for you. For some not, for me it does.
The MPC and Maschine plus are very different platforms. The MPC is a full production platform and is positioned as such. Had it for a while but never really glued with it. It’s a big fellow and mpc live is a lot of menu diving imo, but a lot of people really really like it. Maschine plus is a very nice device but hits max cpu as soon as you start looking at it, sampling is not really easy and controlling the synths is limited to the native instruments macros. That is a personal view, but what I’m trying to say is that both these platforms have their own stengths and weaknesses.
That said there's one for sale used locally for around $500 off if you include tax, I'm probably not capable of resisting the urge to purchase it.