yeah, i double checked about touchscreen after your comment. but with reaktor’s patching workflow it’d still won’t be too good I’m afraid.
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The ni guys don‘t seem to get it. For 1399 bucks you can get a machine mk3 and almost a new macbook air. Are they nuts?
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How many were calling for a stand alone Maschine? Well, here it is…price will most likely go down eventually and isn’t everyone jumping on the dawless train recently?
Fugly
And if you don’t want a computer onstage with you…?
Never mind that “almost” a new MacBook Air still isn’t a MacBook Air. 
Cheers!
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Hahaha…God I’m just glad to see ANY gear getting released in 2020. It feels like output has diminished to 1/8 of the last few years, so this release is makes me happy…hopefully it’s a sign that confidence is growing…
It feels soooo dry without the Superbooths and NAMMs, giving me things to day dream about.
im normally a coffee snob but in this environment I would drink instant “blend43” out of a tin, so I’m not gonna dis this with any underwhelm or comparrisons etc…and am already imagining a small couch studio that I could rock while the kids watch Netflix.
Maybe until economies and consumers regain confidence, we should try to be a little kinder to music technology manufacturers… they do after all want to make toys for our passions…
I’m gonna start…
I have enjoyed Machine and the ideas it has sparked for me in the past, and I look forward seeing what the standalone brings, I’m sure it will bring many people who share our interest in music creation many hours of joy. And I wish NI all the best with this release…
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This is fantastic! I doubt I will buy this but it lights a fire for Akai and is a great direction for the industry in general. I for one am happy to see a decently powered machine in an instrument form factor. It’s too bad they didn’t put more ram in it.
Imagine this or a force with more power that runs third party plugins. Add an “App Store”, where we could get eventide effects or rc20 or your fav synth designed specifically for hardware. This would be gold for the maker, the plugin makers, and the consumer. In a rugged portable box with multiple ins and outs. I’m drooling. With decent specs I’d pay $2k.
This must be the long term vision of nks, which gives ni a massive leg up.
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From the description I seriously doubt it will run Reaktor in standalone mode, most likely you sample your clips to audio to use in standalone mode
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mpc one, iridium, model cycles, polyend tracker! come on, it’s been a good year.
Edit: Pulsar!
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Why?! Wasn´t the idea of Maschine to load any VST that you like into it and arrange music? So this is a stripped down version of Maschine with a computer running inside but without the benefits of a real computer just so that kids can call it “DAWLESS” and sell it for 1400 bucks? NOW I believe that NI is close to closing their doors.
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Unfortunately I share this point of view.
Had Maschine as main DAW/Sequencer for years but I could not be happier since I moved to Reaper, MIDI wise and audio wise.
Don’t get me wrong, I still do rely on their synths (MASSIVE, MONARK, REAKTOR…) and effects (Replica, Raum…). But outside Maschine now,. Had to give my CPU a rest 
I could never finish a track in Maschine. The sequencer limitations being the main reasoning behind it. MIDI tracks were poorly implemented… Heavy load on CPU…
I am dreaming of a hardware piece of gear that would act as a real and visual linear sequencer with the added capacity to load whatever plugin into it.
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maybe wait for the official announcement before bashing or hyping it
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Internet 2020 - everyone complains about anything. 
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Looks pretty rad.
A battery would have been nice given the standalone factor… other than that I’d buy one. Would be heaps of fun
Did anyone else see the Komplete 13 announcement recently? NI gearing for new stuff big time.
Also Guitar Rig 6 … finally! Will be an instabuy for me
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Did you miss the last 30 years of internet? Nothing new
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This is technically both. It’s a direct equivalent of modern mpc that can do standalone for less control and power or drive desktop software.
That way when the standalone is weak (which it likely will be for a few years) you didn’t get screwed
This was my initial idea after I bought the MPC Live. I would gladly exchange the built in plugins for some 3rd party plugins of choice. This will be a serious cash cow, no doubt.
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Well, that would be a laptop with a controller then.
nooooo, i don’t want to click on things!
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