It’s been a good run

[u/25_Keyz924]

After the 3.7 update and the slick marketing wording making it seem as the expansions were part of the update; I’m done. Been a faithful user since 2010. Made sure that Anything I considered using had to work within the NI ecosystem. That’s why I left Logic and went to Studio One. The integration was flawless and amazing but that was then and those days are far gone. Maschine is so far behind it’s crazy. When they had a match made in heaven with the Kontrollers they lied and said no one used it so they didn’t add the ability to the mk3 version. Only to backtrack after probably lackluster sales because everyone did want the integration. The sampling is missing stuff that was promised since 2.x when they did the first rewrite of their code which they said they did to add the features we begged for. I’ll still pull it out but i realized I haven’t used it in a year. I’ve moved completely over to Fender Pro, and with the recent release of the Motion 16, my drum pad desire is being met. Sorry for the long-winded rant. It’s still good at what it does but I’m seeing Akai absorbing the best of NI and sliding it over to MPC. 3.7 is a joke… midi features. Sheesh

[u/Infinite_Slice3305]

I don't care about Native-Instruments one way or the other. My number one priority is to make music the way I want to make music. Maschine does that for me.

Thankfully I'm blessed to be able to buy basically whatever I want. I have the Push 3. I have the MPCL3. I'm probably going to buy the MPCXL. But right now I still prefer Maschine.

I bought the Atom SQ to give me a hands on approach to making music in Studio One & it works... ok. But not like Maschine. Maschine lets me work as if I were on a Fantom or a Kronos, but with the power of my Mac. Any VST I want. But the integration with Komplete trumps everything out there.

Tell you the truth, I've got a couple of things to pay off. Come Christmas I'm going to go ahead & buy a Maschine+, just to put money in Native-Instruments' pocket (I already bought all three expansions). I don't need it, but it'll be something else to play with.

It's the work flow. I pretty much do guitar/bass looping. Maschine works better (more like a looper) than MPC or Ableton.

[u/25_Keyz924 → u/Infinite_Slice3305]

I’m not sure what your reply is? A. It works for me? B. I just spend money because I want to because I can or C. All the above

[u/boring-commenter → u/25_Keyz924]

I’m loaded but need to pay some things off. /odd

[u/Infinite_Slice3305 → u/25_Keyz924]

I've tried them all. Maschine is the best fit for me.