Sadly, however, Maschine Mk3 still doesn’t have fold-out legs for angling it to suit seated desktop use - only Maschine Studio gets that embellishment. Oh, and there’s a power button now, so you can turn it off without unplugging it. A power supply is included, for ramping up the brightness of the LEDs, should their bus-powered maximum not be enough. Like Mk2, Maschine Mk3 is USB bus-powered - an impressive achievement, given that it not only incorporates two full-colour screens but also an audio interface (see Wired for sound). This gives the whole unit a much classier appearance, making the buttons on all other Maschines look comparatively chunky and toy-like. The LED backlit buttons have been overhauled: all but the Group and top-row function buttons are now solid black with cutout lettering allowing the light through. It’s 0.25" longer than Mk2, an inch shallower at its deepest, and weighs 0.4kg more. We never had any issue with Mk2’s build quality, but Mk3 takes the device’s physicality to new heights, its all-metal construction, sturdy knobs and firm, clicky buttons putting it right up there with Ableton’s Push 2 - the current controller construction benchmark. MASCHINE MK3 is compatible with all major DAWs (including Ableton Live, Logic Pro, and FL Studio) as a VST or Audio Units plug-in with full multicore support.Maschine Mk2 made minimal changes to the layout and construction of Mk1, but Maschine Mk3 is a total redesign.
MASCHINE MK3 is ready for seamless control of the latest version of MASCHINE 2 software, including everything you need to create and perform songs-with an 8GB library of high-quality sounds, drum kits, multi-sampled instruments, patterns, projects and sliced loops right out of the box, plus Drum Synths: 5 fully tweakable, automatable drum plug-ins built exclusively for MASCHINE. The button and pad layouts have also received a refresh, with a 4-directional push encoder for browsing, navigating and adjusting levels, and a special smart strip for strumming notes, pitch-bending sounds, performing with FX and more.
The other most notable change is the addition of two high-resolution, full-color displays for precision sample slicing, sound tweaking, note editing, mixing, browsing and more. New in the MK3 version is a built-in audio interface, with pro-grade 24-bit/96kHz audio resolution, two 1/4" TRS line outputs, two 1/4" TRS line inputs, MIDI In/Out, stereo headphone outputs and more.
The third-generation MASCHINE controller improves on Native Instruments' most popular groove production system with some major enhancements.
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