New controller: the Maschine Instrument

A new Maschine Instrument with 64 pads mk (with aftertouch), a long touch-strip on the side and some thoughtful controls to produce variations in the acting. Is it possible?

 

If there was some way of extending groups to 64 slots and using this as a peripheral to maschine I would be all over this

 

Extend groups to 64 slots, oh yes !!
The only controller it lacks to perfect the range maschine

 

The 16 sounds per group is fundamental to the design and layout of Maschine and I doubt it will change.
Pair a Novation Launchpad with Battery and you can go to town. You can still host it in Komplete Kontrol with a KK keyboard for the knob parameters or Maschine in keyboard mode.

 

Yeah as it stands now there wouldn't be any point extending groups to 64 slots (aside from choking which could be solved with cross-group choke functionality) but if you had a 64 pad maschine peripheral which you could use with all the duplicate/erase/step etc. functionality that would be amazing. One thing I really miss from sampling with a keyboard is just being able to chop an entire track into bits and have easy access to them all at once. Battery and a controller just wouldn't cut the mustard for me, I want the maschine workflow just with more pads. I agree this is all pie in the sky but I can dream.

 

Ok but apart from being able to extend the number of slots in a group, I think a controller of 64 pads with the NI quality that we know would be welcome as complementary product to maschine as was the case for the jam and I think a lot of features in maschine could be extended and become better accessible with this surface as for example the keyboard mode which would become playable on 64 pads, just a treat, but also for other applications as quoted by aqirforce2high. I am convinced that this new product would be of great interest to the users of maschine.
I'm voting for !

 

It wouldn't surprise me if the next controller was a kind of JAM STUDIO with 64 (smaller) MASCHINE pads etc., but there is still far too much to do and be done with the current controllers and, most importantly, the software before that happens.

 

@Mr36 : You are probably right and I think especially the cooperation of several controllers maschine in control mode (two at least) in one same instance of maschine ...

 

Yeah, that would go along way to improving the current controllers and actually NI selling more of them.

 

Was Jam already out when you write this?! LMAO

 

Yes.

 

Oh, I thought you had made the sickest prediction of the century. My bad.