This is my first Mpc. Switched after many years with Maschine. The learning curve wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Everything makes relative sense for the most part. Also shoutout to YouTube and ChatGPT. We’re so lucky dude lol.
It’s bittersweet. I’ve been with NI and Maschine since the MK2. Still remember picking it up at guitar center close to 14 years ago.(the white one 😌)I was pumped as a person who longed for physical hardware growing up watching all my favorite producers use mpcs. I started my production journey like most of on computers in daws and this seemed like the best of both worlds. But I just copped the Mpc one G2. It’ll be my first mpc. I’m excited. Im still thoroughly entrenched in the native instruments ecosystem. With the komplete suites and keyboards but I’ve decided to switch my drum machine/sampler setup.
I can’t imagine how impossibly hard it has to be to run a company like native instruments so I dont want to make it seem like I’m bashing them but we’ve seen how things have been going over the years and with them now being acquired by Inmusic home of Akai it seems like a great time to switch. The mpc native instruments integration was already underway and no doubt it’ll continue even further.
Who knows how much more support machine will get. It already felt neglected before the acquisition so who knows where it’ll end up in the future. I hope they invest in the platform honestly. I’d love to see a turn around. But akai and the mpc one g2 finally peaked my musical curiosity and I’m ready to try something different. Stay curious Maschine fam and go make some slaps.