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1. 1 tony on Apr 8th, 2009 said:

   I’ve ownwed native instruments maschine for a month now. It is very unstable and crashes all the time. It is not even usable with cubase sx 3 ni stated it was an old program and i need to update. They should have stated that before I purchased the piece of crap. So many features are missing I won’t even get into naming them here. You have to use two sequncer with to make a track no matter what. Laying out the track is a work around nightmare. I’m forced to use it with fl studio its the only program that it works with without crashing every five minutes. but it still crashes I’ve lost countless amount of work due to the crashes. The only good thing about it is it is a good groove box who just needs a $600 groove box for drums only. Good idea poorly excuted don’t buy until serious improvements are made. I’m triing to sell mine and go back to mpc1000 with the jj os can’t beat it. Ni Maschine doesn’t evan come close. A waiste of time and money.

2. 2 get off mpc D*Ck on Apr 10th, 2009 said:

   hating – lots of people own this piece of kit and it works fine. Perhaps you need to check your PC??!!

3. 3 tony on Apr 17th, 2009 said:

   Hey I own midi controllers, alpha track, maudio 88 key, e-mu 1820m, and other pices of out board gear and about 10,000 in plugins to boot, there is no prolblem with my system. Every piece of equipment and software works they way it is suppose to with the exception of ni maschine. It is a piece of crap. Since buying it I have read alot of reviews saying ni software sucks I now agree after using it first hand myself. P.S. I’m A certified a technician I know my computer is fine. NI needs to build better drivers and software.

4. 4 tony on Apr 17th, 2009 said:

   Hey I own midi controllers, alpha track, maudio 88 key, e-mu 1820m, and other pieces of out board gear and about 10,000 in plugins to boot, there is no prolblem with my system. Every piece of equipment and software works they way it is suppose to with the exception of ni maschine. It is a piece of crap. Since buying it I have read alot of reviews saying ni software sucks I now agree after using it first hand myself. P.S. I’m A certified a technician I know my computer is fine. NI needs to build better drivers and software.

5. 5 it stings my bum! on Apr 21st, 2009 said:

   welcome the never ending age of using the consumer as a beta tester. It grinds my gears that they take our money then expect us to wait a year before it works! Well I suppose theres a lesson there….

6. 6 meert on Apr 26th, 2009 said:

   get me some better fucking software rip off jerks

7. 7 mpcblows on May 4th, 2009 said:

   owned an mpc1000 – SOLD
   own a Maschine – Keeper
   nuff said

8. 8 MPC God on May 31st, 2009 said:

   I own an MPC 4000 and an MPC 5000-BLOWS away everything.
   NUFF said.

9. 9 flux on Jun 15th, 2009 said:

   I'm a long time mpc user and lover but can't see the 5000 being worth much… however this maschine looks really enticing. I'll post my review in a few months once it's delivered and I've had time to learn it.

10. 10 Bbrown on Jun 23rd, 2009 said:

    Maschine will rule the world.

11. 11 dubbedmk3 on Jun 23rd, 2009 said:

    yo i got the same version of cubase as you. if it's cracked that's prolly why it's crashing so much. update to a legit copy of cubase 4 or 5 and you should be good bro

12. 12 LondonProducer on Jun 30th, 2009 said:

    I bought Maschine & hated it. Using the hardware didn't make any sense to me, appart from the drum pads. Everything else was easier to do with the mouse, which defeats the point in paying so much more than a software only solution like Digidesign Transfuser, which I bought. Maschine is a toy for beginners – who will love it because it's got everything you need to make average sounding dance music. If you're serious about your productions then this toy won't cut it. I lost money re-selling & if you're a pro – you will too. You have been warned!

13. 13 Grezza on Jun 30th, 2009 said:

    hey mr.pro. can i listen to some of your songs? i want to hear what a pro sounds like

14. 14 Derek on Jul 6th, 2009 said:

    I like it overall and it's fun. But as far as stability goes, I'm definitely frustrated. I've crashed using Pro Tools 8, Reaper and Acid 7 demo version. It's just a matter of time before the plugin locks up the DAW and the drivers hang the application so badly you can't kill it off in the Process manager! As a plugin, it's not often not smooth when tapping in beats. I'm running on a very good Windows machine with plenty of RAM left over and my system is tuned well. It has been pretty frustrating. Every time I finally get a groove going, it locks up and crashes.

    Without a DAW, you can't run Reason side by side with it and track from both (since Reason nor Maschine acts as ReWire hosts). I'm pretty sick of Pro Tools in terms of its MIDI support. Acid so far is the best I've discovered for routing multiple devices, but MASCHINE's plugins are not stable!

15. 15 stable please on Jul 31st, 2009 said:

    Just got Maschine today, it has crashed at least 6 times in the space of three hours. I'm using it with logic. BEWARE PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

16. 16 tay0 on Aug 1st, 2009 said:

    Guess I'm glad I went the Live 8 / APC40 route instead. I've been using it for a month now with no issues, including a DJ set out at a club. I'll be using it live next weekend also, and I have no worries about the rig. Now, me on the other hand…

17. 17 anon on Aug 5th, 2009 said:

    pretty sure he meant "pro" as in "producer".

18. 18 derek on Aug 23rd, 2009 said:

    I've switched away from Pro Tools (for reasons other than Maschine) and went to Cubase. I am now running everything through my Roland Fantom ASIO driver. When I run Maschine as a plugin in Cubase, anything in the low end (kick, toms) pops and crackles on that sound, even at very low velocity. That's driving me up the wall! Hope I figure it out.

19. 19 Iceman on Sep 8th, 2009 said:

    I bought NI Maschine when it first came out and the first problem I had was it took an hour to install the damn thing. The drivers didn't work and it got stuck during the installation. After I rigged it to work/nstall by stopping the process in task manager during install I was able to use it. That was until I installed the update which got hung up again on the driver/services install and what do you know. It wiped out the entire 1st install and I couldn't re-run the update. UNBELIEVABLE. I had to start all over again and it was a pain and a big waste of time.

    Now if that's not enough NI wants you to use their sequencer with no option to trigger the internal sounds from my DAW of choice. How old school is that? OK so let's proceed with using the NI sequencer anyway…..

    Linear editing was not fine tuned enough. I found myself erasing entire melodies instead of notes. Scrolling throughout the bars to find notes was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Anyone who has used a good DAW will be dis-satisfied with how long it takes to program and also quantize your notes. It's a pain.

    I kept asking myself why am I going backwards and not forwards after spending $600.00! for a midi controller??

    Anyway some of the things I liked about it were.

    Nice feel on the drum pads, sounds are HOT!, knobs for tuning and volume control excellent, sampler was sweet. Lights on the pads are a nice touch as well.

    Well after all of this I decided to sell it on ebay and I was lucky to find someone out there who was willing to pay 100.00 less than I paid for it so I made out o.k.

    My advice to NI who by the way blew me off about my install troubles, is to not use me as a BETA TESTER for your hasty releases. If your going to make something to compete with the MPC series it better work and integrate just like an MPC flawlessly. You had a good idea but that's all it is…. Nothing is worse than trying to be creative and having to be a technician and destroying my focus… NI get your stuff together!!!!! I went out and bought a used MPC4000 for $400.00 more that's what i thought about your new product!

20. 20 Tubemech on Oct 13th, 2009 said:

    I agree, I sent it back as it was crap for me too, and everything else I have hooked up to my laptop works fine.

    For me, the main issues were –

    1. When scanning across samples (even small ones), the start point took ages to move to where I wanted it to go.

    2. Loading samples seemed to take far too long, and no oway as instantaneous as some promotional videos demonstrated.

    I spoke to several other people who said the 'oh, theyre working on those bugs'….! THOSE BUGS?

    WTF, if it cant execute simple, fundamental things it's supposed to in a correct and efficient manner, why didn't NI wait till they fixed them before distributing an otherwise bullshit product!!!?!?!

    So I ended up buying an MPC 1000, works amazing with Reason as a sound module. : )

21. 21 Tuberdoober on Oct 13th, 2009 said:

    Owned Maschine, behaved like a piece of shit. : (

    Replaced it with an MPC 1000 – amazing peice of kit. : )

    Funny how different things work for differnet people eh?

22. 22 Keith Cocks on Oct 13th, 2009 said:

    Dont do it – Maschine is bullshit and not ready to be sold, too many bugzzzzzz

23. 23 Nigel Franklinstein on Oct 13th, 2009 said:

    No, he obviously meant pro as in professional – Maschine is more of a toy than a professional piece of studio gear, NI claims it can do many things but cant do them yet, or at least correctly. NI should have waited till it was fixed as it is full of bugs, and the software is so limited.

    I had one, it was shit. I bought an MPC 100 instead, it is fantastic. Simple as that.

24. 24 tysonviolin on Oct 13th, 2009 said:

    my schwartz is bigger than your schwartz!!!!!!! it's the user not the gear.

25. 25 Beil on Nov 15th, 2009 said:

    Ah bad Tradesman blames his tools…

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