I don’t know, it is very ugly, from a look perspective.
Yeah not the prettiest… On the other had i did ended up buy the force, and that one is a real frankenstein 
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Yes, true I forgot about the Force 
This actually ticks a lot of boxes. Havind access to the NI instruments and fxs in standalone its worth it just by itself.
A few omissions that i will be for sure missing:
- just one stereo line out;
- It only refers to 2 fx - a reverb and a phaser. Maybe this excludes the in built fx that come with maschine software.
INSTRUMENTS:
FM8, MASSIVE, MONARK, PRISM, REAKTOR Factory Selection R2, KONTAKT Factory Selection, RETRO MACHINES.
No shit?
Either way it+s a great time to be making music and i think that this hybrid standalone-controller instruments are the future.
Having a dedicated DAW machine makes music production much more fun and focused. Having then the hability to finish and polish your project in a powerfull CPU - if that is what you want - and then freeze the tracks so that you can use it in a live enviroment it´s a very clean and uncomplicated workflow, IMO.
Looking forward to hear more from this
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It´s worth it just by the possibility of having a kontakt standalone. Now it´s interesting to see RAM limitations, if it has disk streaming, etc. If not you can probably just use very limited kontakt instruments…
And reaktor standalone !!!
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Sorry but that makes absolutely zero sense. Of course they will be in the unit.
It’s identical to the Mk III which I assure you is gorgeous in person
It makes some sense, but yes it appears they will be in the unit.
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I love to check my email and play video games onstage.
Isn’t that what performing music is all about? 
Cheers!
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Tbh, for that price I get much more from the Force, even though I always said that the day NI made a standalone Maschine I would pre-order one.
as much as people complain about the Force not having the song mode they want, it’s clearly a compositional too compared to the Maschine, unless Ni have made some fluid and common sense changes to the sequencer.
I wonder if the maschine has Ableton export?
I’m assuming any Reaktor patching will have to be done on the computer and loaded up into the unit?
If not…
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patching with pads and knobs… yeah, that’s a design decision NI would make.
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Hey now…!be cool
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joking aside
i’m curious. i hope it’s small. i’d like more ins and outs though.
but with NI instruments it’d be much better for synth sound design than akais and 707. and some kind of more natural and convenient integration of NI samples library would be great too. let’s hope.
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interesting.
still hoping for updates for maschine software… And the komplete kontrol keyboards could do so much more. The hardware delivers, the software doesn’t
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I was thinking touchscreen…but Zoia does pads pretty well.
But yeah probably not.
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