Controller advice - Maschine
Controller advice - Maschine Posted on: 20.10.2011 by Nick Kingsley Hey gents,I've been wanting to produce a little more seriously for a while now and have been using ableton. I don't have any controllers or keyboards or anything. And well, it's an uphill battle. I've been looking into getting a keyboard midi controller with pads on it, or possibly a maschine. Now Ive watched plenty of videos on the maschine's work flow - and as alot of my projects ive worked on are pretty heavy sample based - it seems like a great fit. I guess i'm just asking for advice, the maschine looks great, but is it worth the price tag? How plug and play is it? Can I take it out of the box and chop up samples and be grooving instantly? Or is there a ton of manual mapping involved? | |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| Nick Kingsley 20.10.2011 | Hey gents, I've been wanting to produce a little more seriously for a while now and have been using ableton. I don't have any controllers or keyboards or anything. And well, it's an uphill battle. I've been looking into getting a keyboard midi controller with pads on it, or possibly a maschine. Now Ive watched plenty of videos on the maschine's work flow - and as alot of my projects ive worked on are pretty heavy sample based - it seems like a great fit. I guess i'm just asking for advice, the maschine looks great, but is it worth the price tag? How plug and play is it? Can I take it out of the box and chop up samples and be grooving instantly? Or is there a ton of manual mapping involved? |
| Nick Kingsley 24.10.2011 | So i made the plunge last evening
and went for the full size maschine - I was contemplating the mikro - but the layout of the original sold me. I already wrote a couple quick tunes, its amazing how fast it is to get rolling. I have it running as a vst for live. |
| Mariah Itter 22.10.2011 | I just bought one 2 weeks ago and I am chopping samples and making beats and I've yet to read the manual as not had too much time, but i plan on doing so. Youtube vids are good and for me this guy is really good and showing how to lay some simple ideas down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXkw...feature=colike |
| Dorie Scelzo 21.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by turbo
My one qualm about it is that it's based on the form factor of an MPC while I like the 16-buttons-in-a-row format of the Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Elektron groove boxes better because I'm a crappy drummer |
| Leeanna Ayla 21.10.2011 | Get it. |
| Nick Kingsley 22.10.2011 | Well the more I research and watch youtube videos the more I can see it fitting into my workflow. I would use the maschine software and hardware to do sequencing and sampling and then record into live. It seems perfect for that application. |
| Dorie Scelzo 22.10.2011 | If you're planning on using it as a controller for Ableton Live, it's a complete waste of money. Buy something from Akai. If you're planning on actually using the Maschine hardware to control the Maschine application and record its audio in Abelton |
| robin loo 20.10.2011 | it is quite intuitive and by watching videos you learn a lot.. i never really read the manual. even if you dont already have some nice samples, it takes you about 10minutes to get grooving, i guess and yes, it is worth the money! |
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