You may be awareof the Maschine controller and its custom software but here it’s time to explain the Maschine hierarchy to better understand how you’ll need to think to become a Maschine user.
Hello to those of you who are new to Native Instruments’ whole Maschine concept – existing Maschine users already using the new version 2.12 of the software can skip this section. We also have two other categories to further divide us as music makers: are you intending to use this in the studio, for performing or both? It’s important to think of how integral you want this device to be to your set-up. Each group needs to ask itself whether they want to commit to hardware with their workflow (if they haven’t already). Who are you?ĭepending on your preferences and music-making direction, you may have wildly different ideas as to what the benefits of Maschine are.There are those who have never used or witnessed Maschine in action, those who’ve used it enough to understand its workflow, and those already invested in another Maschine platform. From the very outset, if you feel you want to work more with your ears over your eyes, and work more with your tools than your wallet, you’ll already find something that speaks to you here. As our own journey has taught us, the forced scenario of restricting your options can help you focus on making actual paintings instead of over-preparing with regard to how many colours you have and making sure you have brushes for every occasion. Imposing constraints on yourself as an artist is a topic stressed by many great thinkers and it’s a real seed towards a more creative state of mind. Not only is there a wealth of music software options but you also have to be disciplined enough to steer yourself away from other computer-based distractions while working.
Visually, you can be presented with too much information when using a computer.
This is worthy of note as the discipline of not using your laptop keys or screen and focusing on a hardware workflow has become more widely popular now – and with good reason. This was before the easier navigation of that came with colour LCD screens had arrived on the scene but creating a full song from an empty sketch pad was still possible on the earlier-generation monochrome displays. This writer first joined the Maschine platform at about software version 2.0, attracted by the potential for a 98 per cent hardware workflow, a workflow that was also unique to what we’d already established with the Ableton Push set-up.
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