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Fun to play with, but fatal flaws prevent it from being a serious setup center
I love the workflow, the quality of the pads and knobs, and the integration with NI expansions. I also love that you can connect this as a controller, and as an sd card for easy data transfer. I also love
The problems: The CPU is severly underpowered, it's very easy to exceed it and even with simple setups I get audio glitches when I load groups (which means that live performance cannot be glitch free).
The interface has some serious problems for live performance:
Macros are very inaccessible and don't feel intuitive to setup and reach.
Changing patterns isn't quantized - they change the moment you press them.
When hooked with the Jam, changing patterns on the jam changes the focus on the maschine, so basically the context you're working on is changing based on an action on another controller.
Sounds design options are limited in NI synths, you can only change macros and other peripheral params, there is no full control. If you want to do serious sound design, it has to happen on the computer.
All in all, if NI upgraded the CPU and provided a way to modify the workflow to customize some of the design choices to fit a live performance, this would be the ultimate unit. It is still a ton of fun to make music on, but it's not a serious live performance tool.
The problems: The CPU is severly underpowered, it's very easy to exceed it and even with simple setups I get audio glitches when I load groups (which means that live performance cannot be glitch free).
The interface has some serious problems for live performance:
Macros are very inaccessible and don't feel intuitive to setup and reach.
Changing patterns isn't quantized - they change the moment you press them.
When hooked with the Jam, changing patterns on the jam changes the focus on the maschine, so basically the context you're working on is changing based on an action on another controller.
Sounds design options are limited in NI synths, you can only change macros and other peripheral params, there is no full control. If you want to do serious sound design, it has to happen on the computer.
All in all, if NI upgraded the CPU and provided a way to modify the workflow to customize some of the design choices to fit a live performance, this would be the ultimate unit. It is still a ton of fun to make music on, but it's not a serious live performance tool.
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