mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
I guess you're probably right
I'm just very tired of looking at music - and quite often hearing it- as a collection of midi instructions in little grey boxes. This seemed like a good way of getting round that without having to transfer what knowledge I have of computer music creation to a MPC or whatever, something which sounds a far bigger leap in method.
Not really, from what I can see; essentially what they've produced is an MPC with some free software; the inner workings of their Maschine look - haven't used one mind! - but look pretty much like the innards of the MPC. You seemingly get more effects with the NI but aside from that can't see much difference, with an MPC you just record into Logic or whatever (either via midi or tracking in sequence line by sequence line), or I just use what I recorded in the machine itself.
It seems like they're charging twice the price for something that already exists but has cool flashing lights. If you got Logic you can already plug an MPC into it. Sorry if I'm wrong though, that's just going on the tutorial for the NI on youtube, I'm not a massive gearhead.