Create Professional Drum Tracks with Native Instruments Maschine Mk3 Drum Controller

Glen Kirkham: Every release I've put out since buying this has used the Maschine in one way or another. Initially I had no need for one but had some money burning a hole in my pocket and I wanted to be John Bellion. The layering on this thing is amazing, especially with the Komete bundle... You can wazz the browser button to a pre determined preset bank, layer it on top of another one and again and again to get these rich tapestries of drum beats in 2 minutes. It's WAY more user intuitive than programming by hand although my only annoyance is the neccesity of Maschine2 software which frankly needs a blummin good upgrade

United Kingdom on Apr 06, 2021

Andrew AlexanderAndrew Alexander: I decided to splurge and I am so thankful I did. This thing is great. It does take a day or two to get used to basic features (and a month to really appreciate everything this thing can do!), but the videos from Native Instruments and the community (look up Jeff Gibbons on YouTube for some great tutorials and inspiration) are super helpful and can get you going really quickly.

Pads feel great. Menu and screens are awesome and rather intuitive for moving around and selecting your sounds. Switches easily from pads to keyboard to chords and has a great key selection with Major, minor and modes plus extensions so you don’t have to worry if you’re not overly advanced at music theory.

If this is your first controller or experience with Native Instruments, know that this comes with a great suite of initial instruments and sounds plus Ableton Live Lite (which I started on and pushed me down the rabbit hole of music production).

Anyways, cannot recommend enough if you are looking for a pad based controller. It has more features than I have been able to wrap my head around so far, and I don’t think I will EVER outgrow its uses or capabilities.

Canada on Aug 24, 2020

Spike: The latest incarnation of NI's Maschine, the Mk3 is an extraordinarily powerful music production and performance device. It comes with a ton of software that runs on Mac or Windows, but can also operate without a computer, downloading (with some planning) what it needs in advance. I'm not going to write about the solid construction, beautiful screens, abundance of buttons, the wonderful pads or the superb touch encoders, or the 96kHz audio interface that let's it record, for example, from line level or dynamic mics (no 48V, so condensers can't be used, at least not without a separate power supply). I'm not going to talk about the well designed Mac interface, or the powerful synths and mastering tools that are part of the Komplete 12 Select package. Every review I've read or watched talked about them. I'm going to talk about the 717 page PDF manual that comes with Maschine, and what it means for the user.

To begin with, the massive size of the manual means that there's a lot more to Maschine MK3 than you can learn in a dozen 15 minute videos. As I said, Maschine is meant to function as both a composition and a performance tool, though it clearly leans...

United States on Jun 04, 2020

Amazon カスタマー: 主に楽曲制作初心者の方向けにレビューを書いてみたいと思います。

EDM系の音楽が好きで自分でも作ってみたいけど、音楽理論の知識が無いし…という方にも向いています。
楽器の演奏が出来なくてもこのMASCHINE MK3がサポートしてくれます。

筐体右下にある16個のパッドが鍵盤の代わりになるのですが、
デフォルトではkey＝C(ハ長調)ですが、半音単位でキーを自由に
上げ下げ出来るので鍵盤経験者でも弾きにくいキーがMASCHINE...

Japan on Mar 15, 2019

Jonathan Cook: I like this controller more the more I use it. As a Komplete owner, and owner of other NKS compatible software; like Arturia Pigments, and their modeled soft synths, you can use, and tweak all those instruments, and effects as if you're using hardware.

I was someone who was basically dawless. I hated dealing with computers, and softsynsths. I was basically hardware only. Maschine helped me bridge that gape big time. I feel like I'm playing with a real instrument. I combine the Mk3 with jam, and the combo is amazingly tactile. For 98% of the time I can just close my laptop, and just play/compose and have fun. The pads are the best by far that I own, and the knobs are great, plus the slider is just fantastic.

I play guitar, bass, synths, and see the mk3 as another type of instrument to get new ideas going. I see a lot of complaints from those who wanted a midi controller for their daw and were dissappointed. If that's the only reason you're buying this then you would be. Get a push in that case. Being able to work as a controller with daws is just a tiny portion of its usability for when you have all the pieces of your track and you want to finish it...

United States on Jan 13, 2019

Daniel: It has so many features I haven't gotten around to using them all yet. But it definitely is a high quality build, feels very sturdy. Pads are super sensitive, but they won't trigger any ghost notes. Using the velocity feature makes for some great sounding drums because of it. I'm a beginner, so the maschine software helped a lot in how straightforward and intuitive it is to use. However, I have encountered a lot bugs in the software, but its nothing that some reboots haven't been able to fix. The library of sounds including is also a huge plus, making this worth much more than $600 in my opinion. Highly recommend if you looking to start making music, this is a great introduction tool that will make you want to pick it up and use it, unlike other cheaper products which I tried before this one. Just buy it, download all the software, and you are ready to go.

United States on Oct 30, 2018

Thomas Rudolf: Bin Anfänger auf dem Gebiet der Musikproduktion. Muss mich daher noch einarbeiten. Die Hardware ist top verarbeitet und designt. Die zugehörige Software ist bereits gut und umfanreich ausgestattet. Macht auf alle Fälle sehr viel Spass, mit dieser Maschine zu arbeiten. Bestimmt auch und gerade für Profis geeignet.

Germany on Jul 19, 2018

Bazarazz: This thing is a beast, it is a bit of a learning curve to get used to it but so is learning any other instrument really, I do really like this I wish the native host control was a bit better with Ableton (I was using 9 at time of writing review so don't know if 10 host control is better) it can be a bit of a faff to set up the control. But all in all this is pretty amazing and the software you get with this, including Reaktor Blocks and Massive are incredible. Would recommend 100%

United Kingdom on Jul 17, 2018