The Maschine is best for dance music/rap beats, but it is versatile enough to do anything when it joins to a midi keyboard and mic.

Not only is there no other way to get the software for this device except in the bundle with the products, the maschine is virtually useless without its own program which is made for it

I love this Maschine but getting it working was a pain in the butt

Maschine really made the controls very intuitive and the wide range of sounds and responsiveness provided by the product is more than sufficient in order to create the best quality sounds

Maschine is so expansive on the possibilities of ways to use this for making music.

Advanced Maschine technique will take weeks or months or years, depending on how often and how ambitiously you use the device.

This is Maschine's main drawback; it's stuck to it's sequencer software

If you're like me and use Maschine 1 as a plugin within say Live, Logic, Pro Tools, etc., note that Maschine 2.0 WILL NOT open Maschine 1 plugin work within a 3rd party

By handcuffed I mean, either I have to go back and spend the numerous hours opening up every single session I have across all of my different hard drives and saving my Maschine plugin work as