Native Instruments Maschine 2.6
NI’s pad-packed production system is outgrowing the ‘groovebox’ tag, with the latest free update piling on yet more funky features. The new Variation Engine (first seen on Maschine Jam) offers Humanize and Randomize functions; the new Lock and Morph features (also from Maschine Jam) allow users to take snapshots of settings, then smoothly blend between them. Perhaps most exciting, though, is that Maschine 2.6 can send MIDI CC data to MIDI hardware devices like synths and drum machines. Finally, Maschine Jam gets several ‘classic’ features from the rest of the Maschine family.
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