The US beat elite on MASCHINE

I've always been a fan of personalizing anything that I've had whether it be clothing, whether it be instruments; Having the ability to switch out the plates and the knobs and all that... just makes Maschine more of a conversational piece without it having to be a techie sort of talk about it. Everyone has their own individual version of it. You don't have to have the same Maschine as anyone else. It's like "oh you did these knobs that colour, and you got that faceplate, and you did this combination." I just think it makes it more fun and definitely a bit more playful. Myself coming from an MPC, it just gives you that feel again that you're working on your device. You know, you can access all the specific parameters, just from one place. It doesn't make you feel like you are on a laptop. It gives you that hardware controller feel that your're creating on this device and solely this device. It's all about really where you become one with the hardware, Where you don't really want to think about it anymore and it's just intuitive. and its all a feel thing, it's all about a rhythm thing especially when you work and you don't want have to stop and think and look and do anything. You want to just feel. When you're in the studio working, trying to vibe out and catch a vibe... With the new way that you have it now, you can jump right to the pad. It's kinda like a memory game where you can just memorize what color is what and what sound it is. You want all your snares in green, you want all your kicks in blue, or your hi-hats in pink, It's really all in the way you treat the Maschine. You can easily jump right into everything and know exactly what it is as soon as you see it on the pad. It's like ok, hi-hat right here: boom boom, switch to the next. It really helps a lot because you can move faster than you could before. I used a sample that was like 135 bpm or something like that, and I shrunk it down to an 85. Normally you hear little glitches and stuff like that but the sample was very, very clean. I was surprised at the quality of it because I normally use other stuff to time stretch. But from now, it's going to be in the Maschine. Definitely. What makes Maschine better than a traditional drum machine, is that a traditional drum machine can only do traditional things. We're kind of living in a non-traditional age. Know what I mean? With this, everything is in your computer, and you're working right here. It's just as powerful as any DAW that I'm using as far as my VST instruments. This is it man. This is the new. This is the new new. This thing right here. This is the new new. This is what's going to change the sound of music. Everybody loves NI sound you know. Whether it be FM 8 or all the awesome sounds that come with Komplete. If you don't have those sounds in your workflow and in your workstation already, you're behind. So by putting those in the Maschine, you just up the ante on everybody, the ante has totally been upped. From my perspective, being able to do different genres of music, I need so many different sounds and a module like Massive, allows me to do basically any style of music, and it's right there at the palm of my hand.