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Hardware and Software Groove Production in One Package

Native Instruments' Maschine combines the power and convenience of computer-based production with the hands-on, "instant results" you get from a hardware groove box! Now loaded with over 6GB of killer sample content, Maschine lets you unleash your creativity like never before! It works as both an instrument and a controller, giving you 16 pads, 11 rotary encoders, and 41 buttons. You can build songs intuitively by layering, sample and re-sample in concert with your computer, and thanks to all new workflow and DAW integration, Maschine is the ultimate groove production plug-in too!





Advanced AU and VST plug-in hosting capabilities, Maschine gives you unheard-of standalone music-making power, and an integrated NIS sound browser provides complete integration with Komplete 8. With this advanced categorical browser, you can find the perfect sound in seconds - even if you have the entire Komplete 8 Ultimate library loaded.

The Maschine hardware is both an instrument and a 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 also offers full Akai MPC 500, 1000, 2000(XL), 2500, 3000, 4000 file support, as well as REX 2 file format support. There are even two vintage sampling modes built into the Maschine architecture, which emulate the sound of Akai MPC60 and the E-Mus SP-1200.

Maschine comes loaded with over over 6GB of production-ready sounds and patterns. You get fat drum kits and state-of-the-art synthesizer sounds, including vintage MPC 60 kits and classic synth samples from the Moog Voyager, Korg MS 20, and Juno 60. You also get pristine acoustic instrument loops that have been sliced and tagged for your convenience. Maschine features studio-quality effects too, ranging from dynamics processors to beat-mashers, plus mastering tools and a Grain Stretch effect. And all of these effects are 100% 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. There are 10 new destructive sample editing tools that let you go beyond groove arrangement, turning Maschine into a full sample editing workstation as well as groove production tool, and new slicing tools let Maschine do everything classic groove production samplers could to and much, much more!

Native Instruments Maschine Groove Production Hardware/Software Features at a Glance:

• NEW in Maschine 1.7 - NIS sound browsing allows for complete integration with Komplete 8
  
• AU and VST plug-in hosting
  
• Komplete Elements included
  
• 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
  
• Extensive MIDI-mapping capabilities
  
• 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
  
• Program import from Akai MPC 500, 1000, 2000(XL), 2500, 3000, 4000
  
• 2 vintage sampling modes emulate the sounds of Akai MPC60 and the E-Mu SP-1200
  
• Individual swing for each group
  
• 16 velocity levels. Map 1 sound to the 16 pads for dynamic grooves
  
• Improved polyphony with choke and legato options on Sound level
  
• MIDI pitch bend and CC (i.e. mod wheel) support
  
• More than 10 new destructive audio editing tools: normalize, truncate, reverse, fade, silence, cut, copy and paste
  
• Revised slicing: preview slices, new Split" mode for adjusting slices
  
• REX 2 file support
  
• Direct monitoring
  
• Improved waveform zooming, scrolling from hardware
  
• Sampling page: Ability to remember settings with project
  
• Save project with samples to easily share projects
  
• Select events from hardware
  
• Quiet sound selection: Select a sound without causing it to play-important when performing live
  
• Extensive MIDI I/O allows you to sequence your external MIDI gear with Maschine and vice versa
  
• Improved GUI navigation from hardware
  
• Over 10 new hardware shortcuts for mouse-free editing
  
• Load kits without patterns: Hot swap through drum kits without changing the pattern
  
• New step mode: Adjust note pitch, velocity and position
  
• Custom defaults: inc. pattern length and input quantise
  
• Increased performance: Reduced CPU load of many FX
  
• Export MIDI files or drag and drop of MIDI files directly into DAW
  
• Export pattern as an audio file by dragging and dropping directly to DAW
  
• Bypass Maschine's internal sequencer and directly record into your host DAW
  
• Group Macro Controls: Assign any parameter of the dedicated group to the 8 knobs on the hardware
  
• Over 1 GB of new drum kits and instruments over 6GB of content with more than 18,000 samples total
  
• Versions of ABBEY ROAD | '60s and '70s Drums
  
• Versions of SCARBEE basses and e-pianos
  
• Version of SESSION STRINGS
  
• Vintage MPC60 kits sampled by Goldbaby
  
• Vintage synth samples (SE-1, Moog Voyager, Korg MS 20, Juno 60) from URBAN ARSENAL 2
  
• New Grain Stretch effect-stretch out the break, until you're ready to dramatically drop the beat

The Native Instruments Maschine combines computer-based production with a hardware groove box!

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number 17924