How It Sounds? Producing with MASCHINE + Internal Synths 

The Maschine + is a phenomenal piece of gear. I think the early bugs gave it a bad reputation; no longer an issue and it works smooth as butter!

took a break from maschine and went back after a few years, and Maschine is and always was where its at!

Really liking these Maschine videos - hoping to see more in the future!

Love my Maschine +. Probably the piece of hardware that I use the most out of everything. Can’t beat the workflow.

This is maybe the best and most inspiring Maschine + Video i‘ve ever seen. NI can’t even get Videos like that done :)

This is great! Next to that it sounds like you, it's also really nice to see how you do things, and your rational behind it!

I really like how you reflect on artist 👩‍🎨 perspective and not just technical details. Always relaxing and interesting videos!

I love my M+! I have to say I am blessed that I never experienced any kind of issues with my device. I think it’s a near perfect device for what it’s meant for. It’s grown on me from things that I didn’t understand at first and is the centerpiece of everything in my studio. It syncs all my external synths together tightly via MIDI. The features are amazing and the workflow is #1 in my book. I have used and started with the Akai line and had various MPC’s previously and I also used FLStudio, Cubase and Reason. The device is just solid even I stand alone mode. I would recommend it to anyone trying to find a starting point with beat production or even sound design. There are a few workaround for the CPU maxing out. Resampling is effortless. Thanks for sharing your video.

Such a cool video. Different genre than what I typically create, but I appreciate the workflow. It will help me a ton. Thank you.

Brilliant !!

Cool video! Thanks

I love mine, and with maschine jam It gives me an instant flow of creativity, I want to try it also with my new polyend play to see what I can get from there.

very nice, been using maschine for years now, but not really like this. I got some nice inspiration, so thank you

great video. I've had the Maschine+ for a little while now, and it's really grown on me. the recent auto sample feature has been really awesome for me. really great to see another Maschine user edits not making hip hop (no disrespect for hip hop guys, it's just not my thing). Really hope to see more Maschine videos - here, have my subscription!

It’s so strange to me whenever I hear the mindset that specific gear is for a specific genre of music or shouldn’t be used for anything outside of the intended demographic of customers. I had a few people message me when I got the ISLA S2400 Drum Sampler that I “was using it wrong” because I wasn’t making hip hop. Historically though a lot of instruments ended up being used in ways they weren’t originally intended...(including the S2400 inspiration EMU SP1200). Even if you look at something like electric guitar or amplifiers ....there’s no way that the original intention had anything to do with distortion but now it’s part and parcel. Personally I really would love to see the Maschine+ do some Orchestral compositions..l.ive been told by users that it can’t really be done....but that sounds more like a challenge rather than a rule.

Great Video . New to Maschine MK3

I just sold my M+ to buy an octatrack because of your videos! I liked, it's very powerful but it just feels like making music with a DAW. The 30 second startup time also drove me crazy. Great video my guy.

@OoraMusic yes, it’s possible to put macros on the master track for performing. If you use the three buttons on the top left, you can assign a macro to master, group or sound level.Nice video! 👍

Hello, two quick tips to the new M+ users: if you’re downloading expansions or updating your Maschine, leave it alone. Don’t try to open a project or your M+ will get stuck. Also, either get an SD larger than 64MB or don’t fill up the 64 MB one; same thing. Since I started applying those two tips, I haven’t experienced an issue.

Thanks for indepth video. Cool device. I thinking about buying maschine/mpc kinda daw "killer" to make my workflow easier and more fun ☺️

Its my favorite right now. Haven't touched my mpc in months

Grande Fede

Great sound & sequence! Just a quick question (or two) can you easily change presets midway through a sequence or live set or it just one set one song like most of these devices? Might end up getting the Akai Key 37 & MIDI it to the Jupiter XM & do my program changes that way but I am curious about the Mashine+ if can do the job with external gear like changing MSB LSB PC# without the computer?

Great video! I have the maschine+ a week and i have to say it is exactly a minimal-techno box in my hands, there is no sound of hiphop😅 i think it belong to the way the player thinking and „programing“.. i have to say it became the heart of my techno rig!

Maschine and Octatrack would be an interesting combi :)

Great video!! But still have some questions, specially when it comes to swing and groove settings on the sequencer. So im coming from a korg electribe, which allows yo to apply a groove to each voice independently and also apply swing to all the voices. In ableton you can apply different grooves on different midi patterns also. How does it work here? Can you apply different grooves for each group? Or for each voice? This is important for me as i'm really focused on polyrythmic kind of music and i love to play with different groove combs. Thanks in advance😊

Wow this looks like a fantastic replacement for my Ableton Push2 controller! Nice alternative but how does it compare to the Akai MPC Live II?

Just wish the M+ had a little bit more power under the hood, the CPU gets maxed a little too soon for me. Also wish NI's "Play" series of instruments was available on it. Hopefully they make an M+ Mk2; I'd buy it ASAP!

Nice vid. Had you ever tried with Torso T1?

I've been on the fence with this groovebox. I think it's the best looking of them all, but would you say it's reputation for crashing has been fixed in2022?

Di think this could make a nice standalone for minimalist asynchronous ambient with some drones, pads, seqs, etc?

ever thought about the jam too? its a great sequencer and stepsequencer combo.

Thanks! Great! What about other internal sounds?

Nice video. Looks like a great tool. Is the video in mono?

Man how do you loop the initial pattern. I never get a count in.

I prefer this workflow over MPC. I think arrangement on Maschine is really good. But I think the effects and synths can be improved by adding better visualization. But new MPC stems are really a big future

Have you tried connecting your Digitakt/Syntakt to the Maschine + via USB and routing the audio tracks individually like you can with Ableton? Does this work? Would be cool if it did, using Maschine's effects on individual tracks.

Checkout the lock states for performing too, can transition the effects between states for everything at once. Also you can use sounds for effect sends, which work with macros, and can be exported. Thanks for showing your workflow sans samples

Love this video. One of the few tutorials that allows you to actually follow along and copy what's being done. My issue is that when I sidechain the shaker and synth to the kick their volume gets far more reduced than in the video. Am I missing something? Please create more of these videos!! Thanks

Is it possible to integrate this with Eurorack?

Would Maschine+ and NI-S88 compliment each other?

L’ho ordinata per fare live set , la mia idea é fare tracce intere con questa macchinetta come deck A e Deck B l’akai force. Sono in sbattimento perché ho letto brutte cose su di lei, cpu overload, crash improvvisi, sync che va a cazzum etc etc…. Ok che ho 15 gg per il reso ma rompe le balle se é na sola…. Che dici? Vado sereno?

Man how can I get them to let me try it out. You said they sent you one to try out. I really want to try one but I have no type of way until my disability clears 😢😢😢 I’m trying to gain support

The CPU power is not good may be sending mine back unless they came with an upgrade for the cpu

They really havent done much with this box over its life. Especially when compared to the mpc line. I had one when it was frst released and besides auto-sampling and the polysynth, there is not much else as far as updates. The octatrack is still getting updates which is insane but NI has moved on from Maschine and more into monetizing kontakt.

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Still using this at all?

why maschine doesn't have touch screen is beyond me .. like its 2024 everything has a touch screen now and it would make workflow so much better

Let me share a few thoughts as NI Maschine user from MK1 I had MK1, Mikro MK2, Mk2 and MK2 studio and MK3. While NI has heavily targeted this product range to compete with MPC line, and yes, it offers tons of sample based content, from it's inception till today it changed and evolved. While the starting premise was to be able to chop and sample, use extensively sample library (I disagree that you have to rely on Expansions - I have almost all of them, yes, they help, but I am sure you can make any style and any type of sound with Maschine core library). What I never liked about this is a new DAW that took years to get to a point where it is now, and it is still clunky and has tons of issues. NI should ve sorted that out and made better Maschine software before releasing Maschine +. Now, as for the sounds. Lets put samples aside - Maschine has awesome drum synth modules, somewhat similar to Analog Rytm/Drumachine. With the updates, it has a mono synth very similar to 303 and poli synth that I really haven't used much, but is Juno-esque. Aside from that, you can use ANY NI synth or instrument which is..a lot. This means that you can produce music on this platform 100% without any sample, meaning, you can get any sound out of it simply via various forms of synthesis - you just made it sound like you, as far as I am following your work, my friend. My gripe with this is that essentially it is just a computer in another box, that requires DAW to work. While I am super angry at Teenage Engineering, the original OP 1 was the instrument that got me out of complex 100-track projects I was doing for clients but also started to use in my own music and allowed me to go back to the roots of recording on a 16 channel tape, or better yet, 5 channel Tascam casette recorder. Maschine + would like to harness the power of computer and be a portable instrument at the same time - I have much better experience with Polyend Play or Octatrack, or Tracker, when it comes to "one machine to take on a trip". Now, when I got the first Maschine, I wanted to use it as a hardware device - not look at the screen of a computer. However, while this was possible, but extremely hard (until crisp sscreen of MK3), because device is so computer dependant. However, as a hybrid it always has place in my studio, and it is a great controller. I would also agree with you that it doesn't matter how you made a sound as long as you made it - but I'd say that for many artists super sample focused machine is not a way to go, especially if they are heavy into modular and random/happy accidents with hardware and pedals. There is a reason we love hardware - just to be clear, i record into a DAW and master there, I am talking about creaative process. Expansions for Maschine are well tailored and suit the genres they should complement, also work with other software like Battery, but I don't see them as a must. To conclude - I would never get a +, I love Maschine as a hybrid controller but it annoys me when I have to open the DAW within the DAW (Machine within the Cubase) to integrate it all. Also love multisample feature that allows me to sample some hardware that I don't own and later move that into my Wavestate.

The problem is they called it Maschine+ giving the impression it is a better standalone version of Maschine (I do like Maschine). I think if they called it something else they’d have a much more popular product where people wouldn’t have been so up in arms about it’s limitations

I would only buy a Maschine+ IF I could use all my NI Expansions and all the Synths I have bought.

just hate mono sound ...

"As a *'Standalone'* or *'Hybrid'* , the *Maschine's Sequencer* is its *Biggest Flaw.* The Maschine still doesn't allow *Tempo or Time-Signature Changes* - sad man. Seriously, this is just *'Bad' & 'Incomplete' Programming* on behalf of its designers', who all seem to *intentionally ignore* this issue. I can now only speculate that they have gone too far in the coding that it would require a complete SEQUENCER OVERHAUL 👈🏾 When will Maschine implement this all too common feature that all DAWS & even the MPC has(?)."