With the two for one sale going on, I'm interested in any suggestions if anyone has used these.
I'm still using Maschine 1.8, but may upgrade very soon..depending on how many beers I drink tonight.
maschine expansions?
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- KVRAF
- 12261 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
I just picked up Rezonant Blaze and Lucid Mission during the sale and I've already got:
Halcyon Sky
Electric Vice
Vintage Heat
Static Friction
Helios Ray
Pulswerk
Transistor Punch
My favorites are probaby Halcyon Sky, Transistor Punch, and Vintage Heat. Jury's still out on the two new ones since I haven't had a whole lot of time to use them yet.
One note, just be careful when considering the newer expansions, since some of them will only work with Maschine 2.x.
Halcyon Sky
Electric Vice
Vintage Heat
Static Friction
Helios Ray
Pulswerk
Transistor Punch
My favorites are probaby Halcyon Sky, Transistor Punch, and Vintage Heat. Jury's still out on the two new ones since I haven't had a whole lot of time to use them yet.
One note, just be careful when considering the newer expansions, since some of them will only work with Maschine 2.x.
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- Topic Starter
- 8630 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Birmingham, Alabama
Yeah, I'm really interested in Halcyon Sky..that might push me into upgrading.
But I'm also torn between Pulswerk and Electric Vice
But I'm also torn between Pulswerk and Electric Vice
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- KVRAF
- 8088 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
I have, ranked in very rough and ever-changing order from favorite to least:
Transistor Punch
Electric Vice
Arcane Attic
Platinum Bounce
Resonant Blaze
Static Friction
Some of the things that turn me off in a Maschine expansion:
-- too many, and too specific, vocal samples. I don't want samples of people babbling about 808s or New York City or whatever because I will never, ever use those. I definitely don't want 1/4 of the pads in half the kits to have stuff like that, or 1/4 of the kits in the expansion to be nothing but that.
-- too many Massive patches. I rarely wind up using them.
-- things that get in the way of instant usability when finger drumming. Loops at a specific tempo that aren't sliced across the keyboard, beat delays, too many FX/one-shots etc. (Minor pet peeve: I wish NI color-coded pads by type of sound like some third-party sample devs do. It helps a lot when all the kicks are red, all the snares green, hats/shakers blue, pitched percussion orange, non-percussion purple, etc.)
That said, my least favorite expansions still have some great material in them, I'm just not sure they're worth $50 to me.
Transistor Punch
Electric Vice
Arcane Attic
Platinum Bounce
Resonant Blaze
Static Friction
Some of the things that turn me off in a Maschine expansion:
-- too many, and too specific, vocal samples. I don't want samples of people babbling about 808s or New York City or whatever because I will never, ever use those. I definitely don't want 1/4 of the pads in half the kits to have stuff like that, or 1/4 of the kits in the expansion to be nothing but that.
-- too many Massive patches. I rarely wind up using them.
-- things that get in the way of instant usability when finger drumming. Loops at a specific tempo that aren't sliced across the keyboard, beat delays, too many FX/one-shots etc. (Minor pet peeve: I wish NI color-coded pads by type of sound like some third-party sample devs do. It helps a lot when all the kicks are red, all the snares green, hats/shakers blue, pitched percussion orange, non-percussion purple, etc.)
That said, my least favorite expansions still have some great material in them, I'm just not sure they're worth $50 to me.