

This was before the easier navigation of that came with colour LCD screens had arrived on the scene but creating a full song from an empty sketch pad was still possible on the earlier-generation monochrome displays. This writer first joined the Maschine platform at about software version 2.0, attracted by the potential for a 98 per cent hardware workflow, a workflow that was also unique to what we’d already established with the Ableton Push set-up. The need behind this idea has of now been answered with the all-in-one Maschine+. When the Maschine MK3 arrived on the scene, we soon forgot this plan in favour of the MK3’s smaller size and portability. For a long time, this writer had an overly ambitious idea to take a small compact computer running Windows and get it to fit within the spacious Maschine Studio controller case.
