Is Maschine software any good?

^ OK First of all, you are obviously not the target market for maschine because it sounds like you are already a "dope producer" banging out songs on your bricks. So for you to hate on it doesn't really seem very responsible. Yes people who are experienced producers might not build their setup around maschine but for people like me, whom are just getting into producing, it's a great way to start out. Everything is very intuitive and pretty easy to pick up. Yeah I'm sure the highly accredited producers aren't exporting their songs directly from maschine to beatport but a lot of good DJ's and producers use it in there workflow. I got my maschine MK1 for $250 used, it sounds like you paid full price for maschine. (same exact software) Now you are pissed off and misleading everyone else into believeing that Maschine sucks but in reality it is because you bought the wrong product instead of researching it ahead of time, like our friend ecoleopard is smart enough to do.

It does. However, it is just easier to do a lot of the minute editing and overall effects all over the track in a DAW compared to Maschine software.

Yup. And Push doesn't rival Maschine at all. There's actually not too much overlap between the two despite the superficial similarities. Push is really lacking if you care about sampling/editing/chopping functions and having a mouseless workflow. For example:

- you can't sample into Drum Rack pads from Push.
- Push won't be able to show things like waveforms on its display since it is only text-based, not graphical.
- you can't slice samples from Push.
- you can't duplicate Drum Rack pads from Push.
- Push doesn't have access to the Drum Rack's mixer or sends.
- you won't be able to add/remove warp markers from Push.
- Push will only be able to edit start/end points for audio clips that has already been warped, so you won't be able to do things like just loading an unwarped clip and jumping to different parts of the clip using the Push encoder.
- Push can't browse/load or automap to plugins (You would have to save them in racks beforehand)
- Push can't do step automation (aka step parameter locks/p-locks)
- Push will still force you to click around a computer screen with a mouse for a lot of the software functions.
- and obviously, Push doesn't have the Komplete integration like Maschine where all presets can be browsed and loaded from the hardware.

fair call, but accept for the lcd everything can be replicated... and there are a lot of "hacker geeks" out there who can do it.

For the lcd you will have a computer there anyway with much higher resolution than the wave on the maschine.

Finally I have no problems using the mouse.

Yup. And Push doesn't rival Maschine at all. There's actually not too much overlap between the two despite the superficial similarities. Push is really lacking if you care about sampling/editing/chopping functions and having a mouseless workflow. For example:

- you can't sample into Drum Rack pads from Push.
- Push won't be able to show things like waveforms on its display since it is only text-based, not graphical.
- you can't slice samples from Push.
- you can't duplicate Drum Rack pads from Push.
- Push doesn't have access to the Drum Rack's mixer or sends.
- you won't be able to add/remove warp markers from Push.
- Push will only be able to edit start/end points for audio clips that has already been warped, so you won't be able to do things like just loading an unwarped clip and jumping to different parts of the clip using the Push encoder.
- Push can't browse/load or automap to plugins (You would have to save them in racks beforehand)
- Push can't do step automation (aka step parameter locks/p-locks)
- Push will still force you to click around a computer screen with a mouse for a lot of the software functions.
- and obviously, Push doesn't have the Komplete integration like Maschine where all presets can be browsed and loaded from the hardware.

^ OK First of all, you are obviously not the target market for maschine because it sounds like you are already a "dope producer" banging out songs on your bricks. So for you to hate on it doesn't really seem very responsible. Yes people who are experienced producers might not build their setup around maschine but for people like me, whom are just getting into producing, it's a great way to start out. Everything is very intuitive and pretty easy to pick up. Yeah I'm sure the highly accredited producers aren't exporting their songs directly from maschine to beatport but a lot of good DJ's and producers use it in there workflow. I got my maschine MK1 for $250 used, it sounds like you paid full price for maschine. (same exact software) Now you are pissed off and misleading everyone else into believeing that Maschine sucks but in reality it is because you bought the wrong product instead of researching it ahead of time, like our friend ecoleopard is smart enough to do.

It does. However, it is just easier to do a lot of the minute editing and overall effects all over the track in a DAW compared to Maschine software.

I find on internet and I find that some software have plug - in such as VST, VSTi, Wup, Reverb etc... I recommend you search on google then you will find more good program or on my site you will know a few item that you're finding.

The one piece of gear i'll always want in my studio is a Maschine. Now with Push coming out it may rival the Maschine, but I definitely love mine. I know how to use it so well now that even though Push would be completely amazing, I would still rather work in Maschine then drag & drop into Ableton.

It's one piece of gear I would always recommend for new producers.

^ OK First of all, you are obviously not the target market for maschine because it sounds like you are already a "dope producer" banging out songs on your bricks. So for you to hate on it doesn't really seem very responsible. Yes people who are experienced producers might not build their setup around maschine but for people like me, whom are just getting into producing, it's a great way to start out. Everything is very intuitive and pretty easy to pick up. Yeah I'm sure the highly accredited producers aren't exporting their songs directly from maschine to beatport but a lot of good DJ's and producers use it in there workflow. I got my maschine MK1 for $250 used, it sounds like you paid full price for maschine. (same exact software) Now you are pissed off and misleading everyone else into believeing that Maschine sucks but in reality it is because you bought the wrong product instead of researching it ahead of time, like our friend ecoleopard is smart enough to do.

It has a sequencer, but don't expect it to be as flexible as Ableton or a full-fledge DAW.

You know what sucks more than Google? Maschine!

It's a piece of shit, convoluted, expensive, limited, it only has like 6GB of samples, a free Massive serial and a bunch of other stupid kits, one-shots and samples. Fuck, they even give you a stack of Multi-FX chains...like who the fuck does NI believe they are, giving me multi-fx chains?

To make matters worse, those velocity/pressure sensitive pads. They're soo damn accurate and fucking easy to bang on. Like seriously, a dope producer could bang beats out on bricks. To hell with being spoilt with these extremely nice pads. And that Native mapping thing? I'd rather map all the main effects and parameters myself. That way when I slave over it for hours I know it's worth it.

I repeat. Maschine is shit! Don't buy one!

cuz google sux