Native Instruments MASCHINE

MASCHINE combines the flexibility of computer-based music production with the ease of a groove box into one powerful creative tool. Utilizing onboard samples or your own audio files, MASCHINE's symbiosis of hardware and software not only ensures a fast and fun workflow, but lets you easily turn your ideas into professional productions.

MASCHINE comes loaded with over 5GB of production-ready sounds and patterns. Everything from fat drum kits to state-of-the-art synthesizer sounds and pristine acoustic instruments have been sampled, sliced and tagged for your convenience. MASCHINE also features studio quality effects ranging from dynamics processors to beat-mashers and even mastering tools, all tweakable in real time via the hardware controller.

MASCHINE's pattern-oriented concept frees you from the limits of linear arrangement. Build song "scenes" by layering patterns, and re-arrange the scenes on the fly. MASCHINE offers external sampling through your computer's audio interface as well as internal re-sampling, precise editing and slicing, auto-mapping, effects and an ultra-convenient browser - all perfectly attuned to the hardware controller.

The MASCHINE hardware is both instrument and controller in one. Sixteen illuminated, velocity-sensitive pads form an interface to intuitively make beats, tweak sounds, create patterns and sequence whole songs with the powerful MASCHINE software. Two large, high-resolution displays with eight corresponding rotary encoders, buttons, and transport controls integrate perfectly with the MASCHINE software.

MASCHINE unifies and vastly improves on familiar groove production workflows. Using the MASCHINE hardware controller you can jam out ideas in a pattern-oriented environment, and use them as the building blocks to create your track within MASCHINE. New samples, loops, effects or arrangements can be added, edited and tweaked in the same intuitive way, utilizing the ultra-convenient hardware interface.

Features:

• Combines intuitive sequencer, sampler and over 20 high-quality effects with real-time control and flexible routing into an inspiring Groove Production Studio
• Dedicated controller with 16 high-quality pads, 41 buttons, and 11 rotary encoders for playing, recording, sequencing, automation and arrangement
• Fastest workflow with pattern-based arrangement and perfect hardware, software and host environment integration
• Features step sequencing, real-time recording, note repeat, slicing, and auto-mapping for intuitive jamming
• Over 5 GB of inspiring, studio-quality sounds with over 15,000 samples and hundreds of patterns perfectly suited for electronic, urban and "indietronic" genres
• Extensive MIDI-mapping capabilities to control other hardware and software
• Easy-to-use browser with tagging of kits, instruments, samples, and effects
• Intuitive automation recording and step automation editing
• Sampling from external and internal sources with threshold detection
• Works as a plug-in for any software sequencer supporting VST™, AU™, or RTAS™

System Requirements:

Windows™ XP (SP2, 32-bit)/Vista (SP1, 32-bit, 64-bit), Pentium™ or Athlon XP 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Mac OS™ X 10.4, Intel™ Core™ Duo 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM
USB 2.0 Port, DVD drive, 5 GB free disk space for full installation
SUPPORTED INTERFACES

Runs as a standalone application, or as a VST™, Audio Units™, or RTAS™ (under Pro Tools™ 7/8) plug-in.
ASIO™, Core Audio™, DirectSound, WASAPI™

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