KVR Audio

vignesh.vijay · Post by **vignesh.vijay** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:55 am

Hi ,

I have a couple of questions regarding iMaschine :

1) Is iMaschine the software emulation of Maschine . If I buy iMaschine , will it be able to do all that Maschine does ? ( Just trying to save some money

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2) Will iMaschine be available for android as well ?

vignesh.vijay · Post by **vignesh.vijay** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:31 am

BiancaNeve · Post by **BiancaNeve** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:20 pm

1) No.

2) Maybe but probably not or they would have done it by now.

It's quite fun but I think it's only meant as a teaser to get you to buy into the hardware.

Sim.Sky · Post by **Sim.Sky** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:30 pm

I use it sometimes, and as said before it can be quite fun. But it's really more or less a toy. The expansion packs sound good, but they are rather small and offer little customization. The weakest point IMO is the mixing - because it's practically non existent. There's just no proper mixer (only four slots with two global effects per slot). Try to mix a full drum kit, bass, lead, fx, et al. with a four track mixer

Although you can adjust the levels of the individual pads separately, this is very tedious - just imagine doing this for 16 or 24 pads, with no proper loudness metering or anything...

Plus the audio export to other IOS-apps is really limited, too. You can basically only export everything as a single file, which means you can't even use Auria for example to level/mix the single instruments. You would have to use IAA or something, play every instrument in iMaschine in isolation, record it in Auria and then finally mix it down... Way too much for me... It's not bad, it's just no proper DAW or something. Talking about iMaschine 2 BTW

Redmerkurii · Post by **Redmerkurii** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:55 am

IMaschine2 has just had a significant update. Sample import now via AudioPaste. Audio export at the scene level (no longer entire track only) via AudioCopy. Most significant though now is Ableton Link compatability. IMascine was pretty much a closed system before this. The Link option now makes IMaschine a much more viable tool on the iOS platform now that it can sync to other apps. As Sim.Sky said above though it's not really a full blown production system but rather a sketchpad with some rather good soundpacks.

All it needs now is a decent MIDI implementation and single sample export to take it up a level.

C'mon NI you know you want to...

braindistortion · Post by **braindistortion** » Mon May 02, 2016 1:23 am

iMaschine is absolutely not the same like the big version (there is missing about 98%). Though you can import iMaschine "Songs" in Maschine, you can't do it the other way.

iMaschine is for people which have the full version (to record ideas in the train), not to save money or produce tracks!

Buy Beatmaker2 or better Gadget instead.