Then we come to the Maschine+ Expansions. The Raum and Phasis effects are supplied, too. You also get selections of Reaktor and Kontakt factory instruments, along with the Retro Machines vintage synth collection. This includes not only the 8GB Maschine Factory Library (this contains sounds, drum kits, instruments, patterns, projects, sliced loops, Bass Synth and NI’s five Drum Synths), but also some classic NI plugin synths: FM8, Massive, Monark and Prism. Maschine+ runs on an optimised Linux-based OS and ships with a carefully selected bundle of software built in. The mic input has more gain in comparison to previous Maschines, and dual USB ports mean that you can plug in both a class-compliant MIDI keyboard and separate audio interface if you wish (this then replaces the built-in I/O). What’s more, as befits a product that’s designed to be used away from your studio, it comes in a seemingly robust anodised aluminium case.Īll audio I/O and other connectivity is positioned on the back of the device. NI has packed an Intel Atom quad-core processor into the device, along with 4GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

A familiar faceįrom the outside, Maschine+ looks strikingly similar to the Maschine MkIII, but under the hood it’s a different story. We were treated to a socially-distanced demo of Maschine+ and, while in many respects it sticks pretty closely to its stablemates’ workflow, several things make it stand apart. NI tells us that it had a proof-of-concept prototype as long ago as 2014, but only now has it created a product that it’s happy to release. This is a Maschine that’s been a long time coming.

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