


The box includes the controller itself, a USB cable (nice!), a power cable with adapters for international power outlets (very nice!), and a DVD to install the Maschine drivers. With these groups you create musical sequences called Patterns, which are themselves organized in Scenes.Īnd that’s about it for this brief introduction, it’s time to open the box! First impressions This 2.0 version of Maschine allows an unlimited number of groups to be created. Altogether, Sounds and Effects constitute a group. All these Sounds can further benefit from a second layer of effects, which is common to all of them, and are also unlimited.

Each Sound can only contain one sound generator, but an unlimited number of effects in this new software version. A Group can gather up to 16 Sounds, which can be played simultaneously or not. A Sound consists in a sound generator (a sample loaded into the Sampler module, a virtual instrument, an external hardware instrument, etc.) and it is the foundation upon which a group is built. A Group refers to a group of sounds working as an autonomous entity. To make the reading of this article easier for those who aren’t familiar with Maschine, here’s a brief reminder of how the system works, as well as of the terminology used.
