Native Instruments Maschine V1.6
Groove Production Studio
Available to United States customers only.

Native Instruments Maschine Groove Production Studio from Native Instruments combines the flexibility of computer-based music production with the ease of a groove box into one powerful creative tool. Utilizing onboard samples or your own audio files, Maschine's symbiosis of hardware and software not only ensures a fast and fun workflow, but lets you easily turn your ideas into professional productions.

Native Instruments Maschine Groove Production Studio Features:
-Combines intuitive sequencer, sampler, and over 20 high-quality effects with real-time control and flexible routing into an inspiring Groove
  Production Studio
-Dedicated controller with 16 high-quality pads, 41 buttons, and 11 rotary encoders for playing, recording, sequencing, automation, and
  arrangement
-Fast workflow with pattern-based arrangement and smooth hardware, software, and host environment integration
-Features step sequencing, real-time recording, note repeat, slicing, and auto-mapping for intuitive jamming
-Over 5GB of inspiring, studio-quality sounds with over 10,000 samples and hundreds of patterns perfectly suited for electronic, urban,
  and indietronic genres
-Extensive MIDI-mapping capabilities to control other hardware and software
-Easy-to-use browser with tagging of kits, instruments, samples, and effects
-Intuitive automation recording and step automation editing
-Sampling from external and internal sources with threshold detection
-Works as a plug-in for any software sequencer supporting VST, AU, or RTAS

What's new in Version 1.6
Use any Native Instruments or 3rd party VST® or Audio Units™ plug-ins directly inside MASCHINE. You can even hook up combinations: e.g. load MASSIVE* to Slot 1 and GUITAR RIG* to Slot 2 – and tweak them both from the hardware controller - the parameters are automatically mapped to the knobs on the MASCHINE hardware.

To get you started using plug-ins inside MASCHINE a free copy of KOMPLETE ELEMENTS is included with this update. KOMPLETE ELEMENTS comprises over 1,000 stunning sounds drawn from the flagship KOMPLETE software bundle, including KONTAKT’s vintage ABBEY ROAD drum kit and Vienna Symphonic orchestral instruments, six REAKTOR synthesizers and 35 GUITAR RIG amps and effects.

In addition to plug-in hosting, many other new improvements have been made. These include pad-link, swing per sound, internal drag and drop of audio, renaming of clips, duplication improvements, and 16 stereo outputs.

Any pads in the same link group can trigger each other – play multiple sounds such as two snares and a clap by hitting just one pad. Select one or more pads to be the master, and others in the group to follow as the slaves - perfect for musicians using MASCHINE in a live context.

Swing allows for rhythmic shifting of a pattern, creating a shuffled, live feel.
Swing can now also be applied to individual sounds in MASCHINE 1.6, rather than just at the Group or Master level.

The architecture of MASCHINE’s module slots have been modified to allow great freedom and flexibility, with instrument and effect plug-ins now selectable in the first module position - select either Sampler, Input, MIDI Out or Plug-ins for the first module slot and use the remaining slots to host any combination of effects, external or internal.

Now you can drag-and-drop single or multiple files into MASCHINE directly from your operating system, and build up your own customized library of samples.
Plus it's now easy to move audio within MASCHINE from one location to another - great for converting a Group to audio to free up resources in MASCHINE.
 
Extended audio channels: Now 16 stereo outputs
Renaming objects (now clips, scenes and samples can be renamed inside MASCHINE)
Full 64-bit compatibility (incl. VST Mac)
Duplication improvements: Duplicate Scenes along with the pattern events
Mapping improvement when dragging multiple samples (similar to KONTAKT)
Snap events to grid, when moving with mouse
REX 2 import

Maschine comes loaded with over 5GB of production-ready sounds and patterns. Everything from fat drum kits to state-of-the-art synthesizer sounds and pristine acoustic instruments have been sampled, sliced, and tagged for your convenience. It also features studio-quality effects ranging from dynamics processors to beat-mashers and even mastering tools—all tweakable in real time via the hardware controller.

The pattern-oriented concept of Native Instruments Maschine frees you from the limits of linear arrangement. Build song scenes by layering patterns, and re-arrange the scenes on the fly. It offers external sampling through your computer's audio interface as well as internal re-sampling, precise editing, and slicing, auto-mapping, effects, and an ultra-convenient browser—all perfectly attuned to the hardware controller.

The Maschine hardware is both instrument and controller in one. 16 illuminated, velocity-sensitive pads form an interface to intuitively make beats, tweak sounds, create patterns, and sequence whole songs with the powerful Maschine software. Two large, high-resolution displays with eight corresponding rotary encoders, buttons, and transport controls integrate perfectly with the Maschine software.

Native Instruments Maschine unifies and vastly improves on familiar groove production workflows. Using the its hardware controller you can jam out ideas in a pattern-oriented environment and use them as the building blocks to create your track within Maschine New samples, loops, effects or arrangements can be added, edited, and tweaked in the same intuitive way, utilizing the ultra-convenient hardware interface.

Native Instruments Maschine Groove Production Studio System Requirements:
Windows® XP (SP2, 32 Bit) / Vista® (32/64 Bit), Windows 7® (32/64 Bit), Pentium® or Athlon XP 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM

Mac OS® X 10.5 or higher, Intel® Core™ Duo 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Native 64-bit support for stand-alone and plug-in versions

USB 2.0 Port, 6 GB free disk space for complete installation