Native Instruments released a teaser today for a new product that they say will ‘supercharge your beats’.
They add, “The sound of the 21st century fuses ultimate power with a lightning-fast, visual workflow – seeing is believing.”
Is it just a coincidence that they announced this the same day that Ableton Live 9 is released? You make the call!
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It looks like this might work with Push
After thinking about it, it maaaay be something completely different, but considering they tweeted this on their Komplete-account, a voice inside my head is screaming “BATTERY 4 CONFIRMED!”.
Considering how different their last teaser was, I’m getting the feeling that a new Komplete-collection is around the corner.
You mean the new incomplete Komplete? 🙂 I don’t think so…
I was under the impression that it’s going to be something like a new Maschine, rather.
But OTOH, I don’t really care since I have my workflow established and it does not include any NI instruments, nor sequencers, either.
But I do like the concept of a Maschine, a lot. I like the Maschine controller a lot, too. I just don’t like their software…
If you go for the “Ultimate Komplete”, it includes just about everything, if not everything, from their Komplete-line up to the point of it’s release. It’s pretty obvious a spanking new product wouldn’t be a part of an older bundle.
As for the Maschine-aspect, I don’t see that happening considering the number of columns and rows in the teaser. And if so, this would include some new hardware, which is not very likely considering Maschine Mk II hasn’t been out on the market for a very long time. NI may want their customers to buy as much as possible (doesn’t that include just about every single store?), but while they may be tricky about it, I don’t think they’re douches about it.
Komplete 8 recently went on sale. This means we can be 99.9% sure there is a new Komplete bundle around the corner (since this is what NI has consistently done over the last few years). This is also the second teaser in the last two weeks. My guess is that, yes, they are building up to the release of Kompete 9, which will include updates to some of the core products (the above could well be a new version of Battery), plus some new instruments.
Battery 4
Battery 4 would be awesome… Especially if they include the maschine kits and a way to chop samples. Please?
I’d agree with Battery 4, mostly because there haven’t been any other upgrades to the flagship NI programs since Komplete 8 came out. Almost certainly not Maschine 2, since it doesn’t match the branding–UNLESS
This just came to me: Maschine has sorely needed an update to its sampler for a minute- how rad would it be to see Battery tweakability within Maschine? I know that’s not how NI rolls, but it would be sweet.
I’m certain whatever this is, it will not work with Push.
I agree with previous commenters. This is probably all gearing up for a Komplete 9 announcement . That said, I’d still love to see an “iBattery” type app for iPad. iMaschine was a fun scratchpad, but apps like BeatMaker2 have shown that a lot more is possible.
my beatz are alreddy super-duper-charged! thankuverymuch!
IMASCHINE HD UNIVERSAL, DUHHHHH !!!
They just released TRAKTOR DJ app for ipad holy shit!
Looking at the video again it looks like a extension of maschine taking advantage of the colour presets of the mkII hardware to trigger samples similar to the remix pads of the kontrol F1. However using sounds taken from a new synth, massive or komplete. The squares are coloured like MkII hardware, with the samples triggered in a similar fashion to the remix decks on traktor. It is a ‘beat’ related announcement, but they have positioned it as cutting edge use of sound synthesises. The mkII colour pads are the key feature of the new maschine, however they are under utilised in the software unless you use the mkII to control Ableton.
I´d say, it´s either Battery 4 for (just look at the sample grid) or Machine 2.0…
Just a friendly reminder for everybody who thinks, hopes or speculates that this may be related to some new Maschine hardware, software or Traktor-related:
They tweeted this on their Komplete-account (then retweeted it via their Maschine- and probably Traktor-accounts), so it’s pretty safe to assume it’s related to the Komplete-line of products. Hopefully though, and quite probable, it may be very well adjusted to work with the Maschine-software, probably also Maschine- and Traktor-hardware.
I may be completely wrong on that assumption and they only tweeted it via the Komplete-account to fool us all, but for some reason I don’t see that being the case.
As for working with Push: Unless I’ve missed something, of course it will work with Push. However, I do have doubts that it was designed to work with Push specifically, so it’ll work just as well with a Launchpad and the alike (minus the hardware-differences such as velocity- and touch-sensitive, obviously).
Yeah, that was just nitpicking, I guess, but oh well.
Leave my beats alone!
They say “supercharge your beats”. I’m betting on something to mangle beats. Some type of slices/samples manipulation. A pad oriented approach to appy effects (or pitch playing) to each slice. Performance oriented. This would work with Maschine and Traktor.
By the looks and sounds of it, my bet goes for Battery 4. WOuld include sample chopping and (hopefully) integration/mapping for Maschine.
Those beats sound more bleepy-bloopy than super charged.
Wip-wip wip-wip-wip … This blippity balldashery is most likely Morse Code trying to tell us something super about the charging. It’s up to me to decipher the code. The future of pre-hype depends on it. To the Sardonic Cave, we haven’t one moment to lose!