I was thinking hardware-wise. You know, having to own Mashine to use it. Don't get me wrong, nothing the matter with NI hardware at all, seeing I own an S61 Mark II.machinesworking wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:40 pmMaschine already uses AU and VST plug ins, so it would hardly be proprietary in the bigger sense anyway.JJ_Jettflow wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:16 pm I could see NI making Mashine into a DAW..most likely proprietary but I think it is more feasible than Izotope or Spectrasonics.
I'm all for it, if NI secretly was developing Maschine into a real full fledged DAW I think it would successfully compete with soft/hardware solutions like MPC and Force. AKIAI are doing great things, but they're splitting the "DAW" away from the workstation sequencer in a way by this distinction.
NI fix their song timeline into a real linear sequencer with multiple time signatures, tempo changes, hosts audio tracks, and hosts their Patterns and incorporated Scenes in a logical way, and it's a real winner. It almost sounds like a modern take on Opcode Studio Vision married to an MPC!
AFAIK, it is not sold separately.