Maschine $505 at Guitar Center

I paid $599 in April. I hope this isn't a bad sign

 

I just looked at the online GC page and they were selling it for $599. Are you sure that isn't the price with an academic discount?

 

It was the price on the shelf in the Guitar Center at Van Ness and California in San Francisco yesterday.

Academic discounts are much deeper.

 

Regular price or retoure unit?

 

I paid $499 the week it was released... you guys are paying too much!

 

Maybe..NI need quick cash for future products development?

are they making a DAW?

never mind

 

I got my Maschine for $599 bundled with a free copy of battery 3 (guitar center matches prices.) i had em match against this place.
http://uniquesquared.com

 

Guitar Center had a huge 4th of july sale
Many things were $100 off.

 

Thats exactly Right ! Rest assured it will be back up to full price soon. I got mine for under 450...LOL ...pays to know alot of people at GC

 

and they guys at GC said it's selling really well. so.... hopefully that means NI will keep supporting it so we can get proper sampling/editing features.

 

i am sure NI will keep supporting Maschine, they are pretty excited about the product!

sowari

 

I am too. i swear all my incessant griping is really out of love! (i sound like i beat my wife lol wait maybe i shouldn't say that either oh god.)
Maschine has so much potential.
I waited to buy the mpc 4000 then it came out and i though... ya know it's just not what i need, not quite there. than the MV-8000/8800 came and i thought wow that looks really great so i tried it out but it just wasn't quite right. and the integration wasn't there yet either. the mpc 5000 nope not it. then i saw MAschine and i instantly knew yep this is the one! now i knew it needed some work but it's software damn it! it can get updates like hardware can't! if they wanna blow the hardware boxes out of the water they can certainly do it and i swear the masses WILL come!

 

flux302 writes:
"but it's software damn it! it can get updates like hardware can't!"

Can it? I'm not trying to be all snarky but I just don't know. Can they update Maschine to be multi timbral or is there an inherent limitation of the hardware controller thats had them stuck in development for months? Can they update it to alow users to effectively by pass the built in recording software and output midi in a daw? NI isn't saying anything other than the upcoming feature list.I have a level of faith in NI based on products I own but I get no sense of where they're trying to take this. I just wish it was clear that the thinking is to broaden the base of possible Maschine users or keep it as an item best for dj's. To me its all about the arranging ability which is limited currently. Maschine blows me away while I'm building a song but as soon as I go to make an arrangement it becomes real frustrating. If I have to sell it off because its not right for me I'd rather know now than when the price hits $199.

 

Yes, I think Maschine is not "seamlessly" enough for me when i use it with live 8

specially, when arrange a song

anyway,

I bought it for $550 at GC but I never regret it once YET

because it already does way more stuff than my old mpc 2kxl (sold it)

so, let's find out what's on 1.1 ^^

 

Well with this soft/hardware integration, do you think others will copy Maschine trailing Maschine behind?

 

I think its always harder to be first to market with something and easier for subsequent designers to develop. The software /hardware integration will likely be more common going forward and developers will be able to learn from what NI has done. However it would take an unusually strong company to put out combined hardware/software with the quality of library ,FX etc that Maschine has at the initial price point. The only way competition would get my attention if they said from the beginning that their product was aimed at the broad spectrum of song creation and recording and not just a segment of the market. Then again if NI came out and said they're working to make Maschine a more universal instrument for all segments of the recording world I would never sell it.

 

I was expecting akai to do this a while ago

 

...Akai or Roland.

 

What exactly is it about Maschine( a groove box/drum machine/sampler/sequencer) that is not for a broad spectrum of song creation? Is there any particular features that you are missing that would solve this? Or is it that you don't like owning an instrument that is generally associated with and marketed to a particular genre or people?

 

What it is exactly - when used in plug in mode Maschine is tied to its own sequence which is based on Abelton. There should be a way to by pass the built in sequence all together and have the plug in mode only open the browsers. All recording from Maschine could be done in the host daw. Like 99.9% of all other vst type plug ins.Thats what I mean by a broader spectrum. Users who don't want a sequencer in a sequencer but an app in their own sequencer.

As far as the associations b.s. you wrote thats really lame. Nothing I've said should cause you to write silly crap like that. If you have some sort of f' upped attitude keep it to yourself.