A lot of people are contemplating on wether to upgrade to MK2 or not. Here is a review of the differences between the Maschine MK1 and MK2 hardware, along with my personal impressions. Maschine MK1 vs MK2, let the battle commence…. The first thing you notice is the layout of the master section has been changed. Instead of the three knobs, you now have a wheel and a bunch of buttons. On the MK1 I sometimes accidentally brushed my hand against the knobs in the master section and changed the tempo or swing without actually realizing it.
Not fun — especially in live situations where things can easily get a bit more wild and accidents like these are prone to happen. You first have to activate one of the buttons volume, swing or tempo and then use the wheel to adjust. I like the new system.
You can still adjust the master settings with a single hand if need be. I did prefer the MK1 on the ability to very quickly adjust group volumes and the pitch of sounds using the master section knobs. But when faced with the choice, I will rather go for safer operation and less of the annoying accidents.
The new encoder wheel has stepped action which makes using it very precise. When volume, swing and tempo buttons are inactive the encoder works as a jog wheel for moving around in the arrangement or navigating the browser. Pushing the wheel down doubles up as enter key. Browsing and loading things up with the new wheel is very handy.
However I had no gripes about the browsing functions on the MK1 to be honest. If you prefer to do it the MK1 way… Yes you still can, batman. Right now it kind of baffles me why they where even added. Would have been cool to see some additional features instead of yet another way of doing the same thing, right?
Am I missing something here? Of course you knew this one already. Maschine now looks like a rainbow. It does look vivid — especially in the dark. With the Maschine 1. There are 16 different ones to choose from. There is no denying that this ability to set up colors makes a big difference in a live situation.
There are lots of possibilities. Every second counts in a performance. The less you have to remember and the less time you have to spend monitoring your sounds, the better. There will still be enough other things to memorize.
The colors really make it much easier to get a good overview of things when navigating within the project, launching clips or playing instruments using the pads. You can switch scales from the controller and it shows the different notes in different colors Push style. Very cool.
With MK1 every page looked the same and it required a lot of memorizing to keep tabs on which button does what. The multicolored pads make things more intuitive and are a huge deal in my books. The new pads feel a bit different. They are more silky — even a bit slippery but in a good way. They do feel more sensitive to me when playing. It fits in my bag along a pair of headphones and my laptop and thats all I need with me when Im feeling inspired on the go. The MK1 still serves its purpose and gets the job done just fine.
Its alot lighter than the Studio and does not need to plug into the wall. It will be a great starter beat maschine for my children and it will be a classic piece of hardware in the future. Without the MK1 to make improvements on, there would be no Maschine Studio.
Both serve the same purpose. Its just a matter of whether or not you wanna get rid of it in order to replace it with the Maschine Studio. Leading Maschine community where producers learn how to use modern equipment to produce the best music they possibly can. Awesome introspect, this is definitely been a hot topic in the community as a whole.
I think I will wait though to see if there are MK2 customizations coming to the Studio. I am also looking to see if the screen will have touch technology, as, it has already been implemented with the IMaschine for IOS. Until then…I patiently await a reckoning. I got the 2. Great blog. I know with me glancing at the computer screen and using the mouse is not that big of a deal computer LCD screens way bigger lol.
But for me I Still use Ableton a lot to finish tracks. For me it came down to price vs features, upgrading to the 2. The minor inconvenience of having to look at the computer screen and learn the functions on the MK2 with the new 2. Whether you have the Mk1 or Mk2 mikros included upgrading the software is most essential.
This was a good piece for those on the verge of gear lust to meditate on. You must be logged in to post a comment. Let me know if you're interested. I'll only ask a small finder's fee. OneTwenty , Sep 25, Messages: 1, Screens look brilliant, also like the idea of clicking encoders but as I said on an earlier thread I wont be upgrading All the GC's in my area are running Maschine 1.
If there isn't a time-stretch feature with the new software I might consider ditching my Maschine. OneTwenty , Sep 26, TraumaBeatsDrama , Sep 26, Messages: 9, Messages: 10, Cicatrix , Sep 26, Messages: 1. Hardware Only I'd love to upgrade to MK2 for the new display screen, pads etc..
Jiggz , Sep 26, Official word is no. Messages: 7. The new pads on MK2 are better than the old ones but the whole controller is produced cheaper on the MK2: It just has one thin aluminium plate which you can exchange into different colored ones while the old one had a solid aluminium frontplate.
This is definetly a step BACK to save cost and the build quality is lower. Auto Write Pinning gives you two hands to automate with.
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