Native Instruments already has a popular line of MIDI controllers with Maschine and all its variants. How could they ever top these units? By making a stand-alone Maschine—one that requires no computer, no external software, and, in doing so, competes directly against a certain infamous production machine that rhymes with “MVP.”
Feast your eyes on the Maschine+, now available at B&H.
With its playable pads, heavy-duty rotary encoders, and dual screens, the Maschine+ constitutes a truly immersive, all-in-one production studio for all your composition and sound design needs. Record audio, mangle it to within an inch of its life, and dress it up with MIDI-triggered grooves and melodies, triggered however you want.
The Maschine+ takes all the elements that made previous Maschines great and gives them a boost with some serious power under the hood. Native Instruments increased the gain level of the line and mic inputs, and added 32GB of internal eMMC flash storage. The designers made use of a quad-core Intel® ATOM™ 1.3 GHz processor and 4GB of RAM to give you faster speeds and a more optimized performance, so you can truly create and sequence music from this durable piece of hardware without extraneous computerized components. Without a computer, the Maschine+ supports 20 tracks of time-stretchable audio, all with the ability to load a plethora of plug-ins on the insert path.
If you do want to use the Maschine+ in tandem with your computer, you can—and in a multitude of ways; in addition to functioning as an interface, the unit offers dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 for MIDI. Connect with Ableton Link over Wi-Fi, USB, or USB-to-Ethernet cabling. The device ships with a 64GB memory card, but you can also hook up your external hard drives to grab as much sample content as you want. Integrate MIDI keyboards seamlessly and painlessly, and integrate the unit with the Komplete Audio 6 to expand out the I/O, power condenser microphones, and pass CV to all your favorite modular synths.
Yes, the Maschine+ can easily function as the centerpiece of your production studio, especially since it comes with Komplete 13 Select—a mammoth of a software suite including MASSIVE, MONARK, PRISM, and more. If you’re as excited as we are to get our hands on this clever bit of kit, head on over to our SuperStore or meet us over at the website.
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