Anyone here dump Maschine for Beatmaker 3?

JohnnyGoodyear

@kinkujin said:
Hi all. Appreciate all of the comments, lots of good info and it's why I appreciate this place.

@Strizbiz - If I decide to embark on converting kits I'll certainly take that advice. Thanks!

@hansjbs - Your optimism is infectious. @Korakios - Your frustration is palpable. I appreciate both sides of this coin.

@WillieNegus - I hear you on the selling. It's probably brutal out there now! I'm going to hang on to the MK3 and see what I can come up with. Can you map MK3 pads/knobs to BM3?

I think when a piece of hardware and software elicits such pride and anger and passsion then the developers have probably got alot right. I'm digging in to this stuff for the long haul. Thanks for all opinions!

Very fair and also somewhat elegant response

Poppadocrock

Not necessarily but I was all about gadget, IM2 , then AB3, now I’m all AUM, with a dash of some cubasis 2. I have BM3 and I know it’s powerful, but I don’t use it that often. I have way too many DAW/Host apps, and I gave BM3 several chances, and it never quite clicked for me like Gadget, Cubasis 2, AUM, AB3 did. I’ll admit I didn't invest a lot of time with BM3, ie watching tutorials, reading manual, etc, but for me it wasn’t as intuitive as some other apps I’ve used.

Long story short I export IM2 kits out and use in several different apps.

Mayo

The pressure sensitive pads on Machine blows away any IOS app. Machine is very expressive for performance.

Korakios

It’s more about controller integration. On iOS there are few apps that interact with hardware controller such as Arturia iSpark , Ampify apps with some Novation controllers and Atom app with some more in the future .

Jumpercollins

@Korakios said:
It’s more about controller integration. On iOS there are few apps that interact with hardware controller such as Arturia iSpark , Ampify apps with some Novation controllers and Atom app with some more in the future .

Yes I find developer App and hardware controllers very interesting. Looking fwd to the Atom and LK apps intergrating controller support out the box. I hope more deva follow their leads.

andowrites

@echoopera said:

@AudioGus said:
Now that I am not commuting I have spent a little more time again on desktop and absolutely love the NI sounds (more than anything really on iOS) but I have been missing aspects of the BM3 Interface so I figured maybe I should just pony up for the MK3 as it seems like a hardware BM3 to me. From what I have been hearing I can get by with a long USB cable and be pretty much desktop free at least for the creative splurge part. It is still a chunk of change though that I can’t really justify right now but think I should’ve just got one a few years ago instead of a laptop but hindsight is 50-50 blah blah.

Err, But yah, I kind of want to do the reverse. The Mk3 fx seem solid and simple to use, the sounds are great and I like the idea of Just working within a box and not always be thinking about plugins and work arounds and Wondering just how much I can fix in post etc. It feels like I should just be able to bang out about 80% of a track on the MK3 and just do simple mixing on desktop and be satisfied. Everything I bounce out of iOS just feels kind of weak compared to the sketches I can do with the NI stuff and feels like it needs a lot more work after the fact. Could be because I am a preset flipper at heart.

Why not just use BM3 as a sort of controller for the VST and sounds you like the most on the desktop...and go crazy playing the iPad using the BM3 UI to make music...I did this for a while last year with BM3 and Ableton and it was pretty slick.

@echoopera, your creative brilliance is boundless!