The native instruments maschine is an ideal addition to your music production studio, a drum machine and a midi controller with a software system that can be controlled completely from a good hardware set-up. It has a total of 6 gigabyte Sample Library with great audio samples, plus a good number of internal NI FX. You can run the Maschine as a standalone system or as a plug-in for any DAW.
You get eight instrument groups labelled with the letters of the alphabet. You can input 16 different instruments or sounds on the built-in 16 trigger pads. For each group of instrument you get 16 recordable midi patterns. All of these converge in the scene view and you have a choice of the pattern to play in the scene. This set-up is perfect for live performances but may be a bit complicated for arranging or mixing an entire song. The buttons may need some getting used to but it does have the ability to improve your workflow. You can create a demo without clicking the mouse and with two displays on your controller you do not even need a monitor.
You can plug it in to your mixer and use the 16 midi inputs plus the 16 audio outputs to transfer the sound to and from the Maschine and the separate audio tracks you are processing. The hardware controller also works as a standard midi controller by changing to midi control mode, which has a shortcut on the controller. When used as a plug-in the Maschine can be quite heavy so it is not recommended for slow computers.
The advanced software version solves the problem of running the Maschine with external software plug-ins. Importing your very own sample library is quite easy to accomplish and tag. The trigger pads look and feel great. Problems may arise when you use the Maschine as a plug-in to your DAW and other systems are running simultaneously and a computer system upgrade may just be what you need.
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