Native Instruments has released an update to Maschine, version 1.8.
Here’s what’s new in Maschine 1.8:
- Offline time stretching and pitch shifting feature
- Transient Master
- Tape and Tube Saturators
- Save group with samples feature
- Improved handling of missing samples
- Revised select page (hardware) with access to note length
- Quick select events of a sound in a pattern (Shift + Select + Pad)
- Quick erase events of a sound in a pattern (Erase + Select + Pad)
- Pre-hear samples from the hardware browser before loading them
- Choke all playing sampler voices feature (“panic button”: Shift + Mute)
- Sample play position indicator on the waveform (hardware and software)
- AutoWrite pinning feature
- Various bug fixes
See the NI site for details.
Offline timestretch? Come on NI, Ableton has warping, surely you could do it. This is a very sad, worthless update.
I wonder when they’ll abandon this platform the way they did with KORE. That was so raw, its hard to take NI seriously for a long-term commitment. I like a couple of their synths, but I feel wary of their behavior.
kore was before the trinity was established and i think all of their lineup is here to stay for quite a bit.
there is apparently a gameplan for all of their flagships.
that said – yes kore was unfair and i to reiterate: i doubt i will be updating my komplete anytime soon.
all of their discounting/ crossgrades / pricing policies are blatanty money grabbing imo.
Well I got Komplete 8 crossgrade ( for maschine owners) on sale a month ago for $200. Thats $200 for kontakt, fm8, absynth, massive, reaktor, guitar rig etc. If that’s the sort of money grabbing you’re referring to I wish more companies thought like that.
Its actually pretty cool, and sounds great. I think Maschine is moving steadily into DAW territory and it will be interesting to see how it is expanded from here. I mostly use Maschine as a VST in Live but with updates that bring multicore support, multi-timbral instruments and a better sequencer interface I may start doing whole projects in Maschine standalone.
Machine DAW would rock … even with only UAD plugs, Live starts to stutter soonish … besides it somehow doesn’t sound as phat as the standalone … Opinions?
Not sure what about the new 1.8.1 says DAW to you but to me it CLEARLY says ” Performance Controller ”
I was hoping to see some more improvements to the production capabilities of Maschine However, based on the “features” of the new hardware and software update, clearly NI has a different target audience in mind. A lot of wasted effort if you ask me.
Thats why Im taking another look at an OG player. Akai would never allow their MPC to become a disco ball.
It’s a good update, even before mentioning the free Massive synth. Well done NI.
The time stretching is so much fun, it can be abused so easily to create grainy textures…
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Timestretching with Maschine 1.8 is offline, with no ability to preview.
Not fun at all. Barely functional.
Its 2012…
I should be able to hold a pad as Im listening and capture directly to that pad, until I release. Then, trim with two buttons and timestretch and pitch correct with those same two buttons. In REALTIME with a locked loop playback, with backtracks or solo.
Someone make this happen for me. For all of us.