the Invincible: Push Controller – Ableton going the Maschine way. with dynamic pads (pressure & velocity) in Live 9

Ableton says Push! – I want to see you on the floor. it’s very much like a new Launchpad and step sequencer with pressure sensitive  and velocity pads and display, so .. a „better“ maschine? SO GREAT THEY ARE DOING STEP SEQUENCING IN HERE!! Sorry, but this looks more sexy to me than most of current grooveboxy approaches to computers, so – interesting to get my hands on one of these – not so cheap – but interesting concepts of CHOOSING and PLAYING and yet SEQUENCING it – don’t know how…

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Maschine 1.8 is ready for download

I also received another Massive License with the info – nice. The 1.8 Update was announced already and the new colour Maschine Controllers as well for today: This service is temporarily not available. Please try again later.  and yes, the Service Center Software is quite slow right now, lots of downloads this time, so expect to have some time & patience today..   Per Mail kam der Massive Code, die Server sind ziemlich überlastet, aber mit etwas Geduld müsste es klappen, ich habe mind 2 Service Centers installiert. Also mal…

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New NI Maschine Design – more LED colours

more colours.   why and what? note – new colours should be like telling you things better via the same button, so it may help more than just „being coloured“.http://www.native-instruments.com/#/de/ … /maschine/ for all of you who might think it is just a hoax. 599€ is the new price quote from forum – aus dem Forum: the 1.8 version will work on both- the old and the coloured one. all maschine users get Massive for free. note that it’s not about colours, you need them for being a cool launchpad or…

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NI Maschine – Upcoming 1.8

The update will include the following improvements: – looks like the slicer will still be a bit dull, they should look at Geist from FXpansion how to use and process slices, anyway not bad to have time stretching – My personal comment 2 refering to my own performances: The LFO is still 18 Hz, which is far below standard, should be 100Hz minimum, and please add multicore support, after that there’s a lot improved, aaand – say you have a slice programmed to play and remove it in the chase…

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NI Maschine 1.1 Update inkl MIDI control of ext. Gear (Beta)

The update will include the following improvements (which is already out as a Beta and therefore will be up sooner or later as final Update) – here’s the new Specs: New and improved features: MIDI Out Mode for sounds MIDI In for sounds and groups Drag-and-Drop audio export for scenes and patterns in host Record and trigger scenes switches via MIDI notes in host Scene retrigger option in plugin mode Loading groups without patterns Additional slicing sizes (1/8th etc.) REX file import Scene naming Adjustable metronome volume Record Count-In option…

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