There are MPC groove templates out there. Do a quick internet search and you will find them. Maschine users have been attempting to modify them to use with their DAW/Maschine.
LOL So at first you lie and say that "there are MPC groove templates out there for Maschine" and now you backpedal and say "there are MPC groove templates out there" and mention the use of a DAW.
And yet another outright lie:
For someone to take an MPC MIDI file to load into Maschine is proof that they feel a need to import the "magic" that isn't possible with Maschine.
So show me the proof of someone takes a MPC MIDI file and load into Maschine. There isn't because you can't load midi files into Maschine as it wasn't designed to load and play back midi files. And of course you're now going to claim that someone might load those MIDI files into their DAW and record the MIDI into Maschine and pretend that's anywhere remotely close to what you tried to mislead people about.
The existence of "MPC groove templates" only proves that there is a deeply entrenched myth about MPC's swing being magical exclusive.
From Roger Linn himself:
"There’s a lot more voodoo in the press than actually exists. Even on my earliest drum machines, all I did was make sure my samples were trimmed tightly and wrote my software so that the software responds tightly. Swing is just a matter of accurate percentages."
"My bag of tricks is basically taking away all the stuff the software sequencers give you."
"Back then, in the earlier days, sequencers just weren’t very good for timing because the OS would always get in the way. These days, you can get great swing if you know what you’re doing."
"There’s no other trick than that. I think it’s pretty easy for most people to get a good groove."
The Father of Drum Machines and the Father of MIDI Talk About Design and the Tempest
Maschine is cheap new product that will appeal to you guys looking to do things on a budget. But it does nothing that you can't do with a drum pad controller and a DAW (that everyone has) or an MPC.
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now a product like Maschine is not self contained, it relies on software that must be compatible with the host computers operating system, you get that?, it needs constant support by way of updates to continue to keep up with any updates made to the host computer.
Hardware are just computers. The point you're missing is that regular computers are no different from "hardware" when you treat it as such. You don't have to update the computer OS or software if you don't want to. You can keep using the computer/software setup that works and never change it. "Hardware" just stop getting supported so there's no option to update anything and often have bugs that never get fixed.
Hardware is subject to physical wear, that goes for the maschine controller too, the switches (buttons and pads) will not last for ever, they will require replacing, and as far as legacy products go the MPC has had enough interest to warrant the manufacture of 3rd party replacement parts.
Again, the point you're missing is that MIDI controllers are much easier and cheaper to replace whereas if the MPC2000's screen dies for example, you're screwed because the parts are no longer being made.
Maschine is the most successful product for NI ever. There's no way it will somehow get discontinued. Trying to give examples of software that were discontinued because of lack of enough interest (Gigasampler), were victims of being bought out and killed (Opcode Studio Vision), or replaced by an improved version (B4 which is now
Vintage Organs) is just disingenuous and irrelevant.
