The full range of Sound and Group setup functions are accessible in the Mixer, including colouring, renaming and plugin loading, and with the Plug-in Strip below it, it has all mix- related bases covered, despite the vast empty space that could drown those who invested in large monitors.Īn interesting Mixer feature for live performers is the new Cue bus, which enables any Sound or Group to be taken out of the mix and routed to the dedicated output of your choice - ie, your headphones - by clicking a button on its channel strip. Maschine 2.0's Mixer (and, indeed, Maschine Studio's Mix mode) gives a traditional mixer-style overview and control of your Group, Sound and Master levels and panning, as well as routing of MIDI and audio within Maschine and to/from the outside world. "Maschine 2.0's Mixer gives a traditional mixer-style overview of your Group, Sound and Master levels and panning" While we're on the subject of visibility, the total separation of Arrange and Mix views is a bit awkward - we'd like to able to view any given combination of Editors and areas at the same time. While the aforementioned Additional view does fill a lot of that space when used, it all feels very empty the rest of the time.
The Plug-in Strip does a great job of presenting internal/NI plugin parameters in the one window, although some alternative view options are needed, since on a big monitor, an awful lot of screen space can end up wasted below that resolutely horizontal parade of effects. Third-party plugins just get a standard graphic and preset selector. For example, Massive reveals its Macros, LFOs and envelopes, while Reaktor Prism shows its full Ensemble. There's more on the mixer section below, but the Plug-in Strip simply shows all of the plugins loaded onto the currently selected mixer layer (Master, Group or Sound) as a horizontal list, with interactive "custom panels" for Maschine's internal effects, Sampler and Drumsynths (we'll get onto the latter in due course) and all NI plugins.Ĭertain NI plugins also get an expanded panel in the Strip, called Additional view - some the full GUIs, others reduced versions of them.
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