Maschine mk1 was born - a bespoke piece of hardware tied to a bespoke piece of software, promising to make the best of both the physical and digital worlds.įast forward 12 years and things have come full circle with Maschine+ - Native Instruments’ first completely standalone version of Maschine, no computer required. But the fact remained when it came to hands-on beat making, be it the immediacy, workflow or sound, many still longed for a modern MPC-style solution.
Despite its sound, legacy and aforementioned workflow, it was phased out in favour of bigger screens, more CPU and flexibility offered by the modern DAWs. No piece of hardware encapsulated that elusive ‘workflow’ better than the Akai MPC, a legendary sampler and ‘groovebox’ used by everyone from J Dilla and MF Doom to Mark Ronson and Kanye West. Computers had become powerful enough to supersede hardware-packed studios that came before, meaning that while in-the-box music-making was possible, powerful and largely prefered, the tactile feedback and focused workflow of hardware was missing from the modern studio. When Native Instruments first released Maschine, it was attempting to fill a gap.
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