although I've heard some amazing sounding stuff out there

You will be 24/7 creating incredible stuff as soon as put your hands on this

Yet I can see someusers wishing a better handling of the loops (or scenes) as referred by N.I.I spent hundreds trying to find the right controller and stuff for Cubase, Maschine cut corners on that big time, as it has it's ownsoftware with a nice hardware integration which also has it's own screens