Maschine 2.0's Mixer (and, indeed, Maschine Studio's Mix mode) gives a traditional mixer-style overview and control of your Group, Sound and Master levels and panning, as well as routing of MIDI and audio within Maschine and to/from the outside world. "Maschine 2.0's Mixer gives a traditional mixer-style overview of your Group, Sound and Master levels and panning"
While we're on the subject of visibility, the total separation of Arrange and Mix views is a bit awkward - we'd like to able to view any given combination of Editors and areas at the same time. While the aforementioned Additional view does fill a lot of that space when used, it all feels very empty the rest of the time. The Plug-in Strip does a great job of presenting internal/NI plugin parameters in the one window, although some alternative view options are needed, since on a big monitor, an awful lot of screen space can end up wasted below that resolutely horizontal parade of effects. Third-party plugins just get a standard graphic and preset selector. For example, Massive reveals its Macros, LFOs and envelopes, while Reaktor Prism shows its full Ensemble. There's more on the mixer section below, but the Plug-in Strip simply shows all of the plugins loaded onto the currently selected mixer layer (Master, Group or Sound) as a horizontal list, with interactive "custom panels" for Maschine's internal effects, Sampler and Drumsynths (we'll get onto the latter in due course) and all NI plugins.Ĭertain NI plugins also get an expanded panel in the Strip, called Additional view - some the full GUIs, others reduced versions of them. It also represents all your integrated NI instruments, effects and Maschine Expansions with pictures rather than just text. The more 'visual' new Browser does away with the column-based layout in favour of a tag filtering system that essentially achieves the same thing in a different way. It also brings with it a Follow mode and the ability to freely set the loop range. That'll be enough to get many upgrading on its own, as will the new Arranger view, which displays Scenes on a standard bars-'n'-beats timeline rather than the abstract fixed-length blocks of old. When it comes to the numbers, "unlimited" appears to be the new watchword, applying to Groups (used to be limited to eight), Scenes (64) and plugins (four per Group, three per Sound).
The multicore support certainly hits the spot: a project pushing the CPU meter into the red on our i7 iMac in Maschine 1.8 barely tickled 40% in Maschine 2.0.
Maschine 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the software, introducing a fresh, clean new look, a new audio engine with multicore support and plenty of workflow enhancements and new toys. "Maschine 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the software, introducing a new look, new audio engine and plenty of new toys"
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