Reply to Starting a new studio.

Hello everyone I am a new member to this community and am excited to be apart of this community.

I currently using serato scratch and have been mostly mixing my friends productions. We have a good collaboration going but, some good things must end.

To make a long story short my long time dj/production partner is moving to a new city for grad school. I have been needing to work on starting my own home studio. I have extensive experience with ableton. but, I am basically starting from scratch I am looking in to midi controllers and ran into Maschine I was wondering if anyone has this and likes it. I would like to used this for beat production and would like to clean things up in Ableton.

Please let me know any good or bad experiences with Maschine or if you have any better ideas on things I could use for simple beat production and or just ideas on starting up a studio.

thanks