Native Instruments Maschine

In this photo, Sonny can be seen using Maschine at his live set

Thanks to users expoiler and rav0n for spotting the Native Instruments Maschine in Deadmau5' live setup. Good looking out.

Armin Van Buuren uses Maschine to jot down drum ideas by playing them in real time.

"Always nice to jam around with samples, and see if they work together… that’s basically what I do on Maschine!"

In this video he has the Maschine software open.

In an interview, while playing with some studio equipment Steve Aoki says "I got Maschine and a couple of synths, but this Moog is dope".

At 4:50, Trent Reznor says "On the new record Hesitation Marks, about, if not every song ...almost every song was me with headphones on working in Maschine as a compositional environment. And I just found that to be fun. And I like the limitation of everything that's in there, and I like the fact that it can be easily automated with fingers and knobs and that you don't have to spend time assigning stuff, and I like the fact that it felt pattern based, and my Maschine consists of whatever soundbanks they have along with SoundToys native bundle and a couple softsynths outside of the Native Instruments thing. But just that was a kind of template to work from that ... I didn't feel exhausted when the record was finished and I could have kept going and probably will do the next thing I do in the same capacity, cause it just felt right. And the combination of Maschine as a kind of compositional tool on top of the effects I added ...became something I didn't ...I didn't miss being in the full studio. And sometimes having a limited work environment makes me work in a way that pushes me to something I wouldn't do if I'm sitting in the studio and I can reach for my favorite things".

The Native Instruments Maschine makes an appearance in Dirty South's LA studio, as can be seen in his photo "Just moved into my LA studio...the fun begins!"

At the 3:15 mark in this YouTube video, one can see the Maschine on the left-hand side of Richie Hawtin's live performance setup.

“I use Native Instruments’ Traktor with my MacBook Pro. To control all of this I use a piece of kit called Maschine, which is also from Native Instruments and can be used in two ways - as a sequencer to access drums samples to use live when DJing or as a Midi controller, which is how I use it." “I can control all four decks on Traktor using Maschine. And when I use this set-up I have the ability to control whatever effects I want to use - delays, filters, flange, whatever, it’s all available to mess around with.” “I use Maschine to manipulate everything that is inside Traktor - the tunes, the effects, etc. With Maschine I can make a two-bar loop on track A, move on to track B, play the actual record, then add a bassline over it on track C. I can introduce another element on track D, adding delays, effects, changing the whole sound using the controller. Before you know it, you’re creating a whole new remix of a track. It really pushes you to be more creative and there’s a lot more performance involved.”

St. Vincent shows off her Maschine in this photo, tweeted with the caption "Just me and my Maschine for a romantic evening in Paris."

When asked what his favorite piece of studio gear is, Adam Beyer replied "Maschine by Native instruments really impressed me"

Cazzette said "Maschine has a very good stuff", so maybe they are using Maschine by NI

"Another box of fun arrived from our sponsors, Native Instruments!! Thanks Guys! @NI_News"

”we were trying to unlearn our skills and do everything on a more instinctive level.”

"I can work with the Maschine, control the volumes with the Maschine" - Chris Liebing at :20s in this video.

Underworld's Darren Price talks about Maschine by Native Instruments: "We've had bits of equipment over the last years coming into the studio - it's blown us away - but Maschine is one that's stood out over them all. So this is what we normally do in a live situation. Say we probably write some beats in Maschine in a hotel room somewhere in the world and think 'Oh, I want to play that tonight.' So I'm upping Maschine, I'm on top of the DJ kit, and then I'm ready to rumble. I can either jam it straight from Maschine or put some parts into the main desk. From hotel room mode to live gig on the spur of the moment we normally just run Maschine in sync and... rocking. Since 1.6 I've been running it standalone because of all of the new features. Floating external instruments, plugins, all of my core audio units, whether they're Native Instruments, third party, whatever, I can kind of do the whole track in Maschine and it's great. That's why we've kind of being using it, trying to reinvent some of the old Underworld records to perform live in 2011. They sound a little bit old drum-wise and you put Maschine on and it kind of gives it a new edge, it gives it this new kind of sound. So that's how we've been finding it and it's been very successful. Over the last few weeks us trying different things Everybody Jack...I wrote that in one day. And now it's going to be in the Underworld live set so it's like, you now, [I've] not written a track in one day, on the computer, in any program, in quite a long time. You've got so hands on with each note, holding pads down, tuning, length, position. Don't even touch a mouse - there's no mouse involved. If I'm looking at arranging a track on the screen I'd probably let the section go for probably less time... but if I'm in front of a console or Maschine, you go with your feeling. If your feeling isn't to go 16 bars an hour then you leave it for 32 or 64. it's just a different way to arrange and mix the track. If I spent three weeks in the studio I could translate all the Underworld stuff into Maschine and I could turn up like that and we could do an Underworld gig out of it. We could do it without taking all of that backline and all of the live stuff. It's just a great, great piece of kit, and I love it."

”We mix together three things; Maschine, Logic and Abelton and we use each one interchangeably. A lot of the initial stages of production will be done in Maschine, Logic for the overall mixing, matching and layout of the song and then our live performances are all done in Abelton.”

Mentioned in this October 2017 *Sound on Sound* interview. > Davis’ trusty old MPC60, though, is sadly long gone from his setup. Over successive DJ Shadow albums, however, he has progressed through variations on it: upgrading to an MPC2000 for his production of Unkle’s 1998 album Psyence Fiction, then MIDI’ing two of them together for the second DJ Shadow album The Private Press, released in 2002. > “I basically had nearly unlimited sample power and chop power,” he says. “But after The Private Press, I felt like it was important to switch things up. I had purchased Pro Tools so I was fully up and running on that. There’s probably two or three songs on [2006’s] The Outsider where the initial ideas or sketches were done on an MPC. It’s been I’d say 13, 14 years since I used one. > “I will say though that in I think about 2008, I got whatever was new at that time [the MPC5000], thinking, ‘Oh I kinda miss it, let me see what the new version’s like.’ But I just couldn’t go back. It seemed a bit silly to me, knowing what was possible within stuff like Maschine. Once you go into the software synth world, it’s really hard to legitimise going back into the box.” It is also mentioned in this October 17, 2016 *Music Radar* interview. > "After that, I went to Pro Tools. I always feel like it's important to break out of your comfort zone a little bit, but I'll say that Ableton Live is the most intuitive music-making program I've used since the MPC - much more so than Pro Tools or Maschine, but that might just be the way my brain works.

Nicolas Jaar has an NI Maschine in this live performance, evidenced by the Native Instruments logo on the back.

At 0:11 you can see his Maschine mk1 with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard on top.

In this image from a [a small stage at Nefertiti Jazz Club in Gothenburg, Sweden](http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/10/sbtrkt_now_in_n.html), you can see SBTRKT using the Native Instruments Maschine.

When asked what gear they use live, Hooks of Zeds Dead replied, "…[Native Instruments] Maschine..." (full interview [here](http://djtimes.com/zeds-dead-dynamic-duo/))

Maschine seen on 2nd rig

Dj Jazzy Jeff is seen in a studio tour video showing off his customized Maschine.

in this photo 9th wonder show us his maschine!

In this photo from Dubspot, we see the Maschine Dubfire used in a performance in 2012. Because it has three knobs in the upper left, it must be the first model, and not the MKII (which only has one knob in that location).

The producer refers to his usage of Maschine in an interview. "..and as VSTs I use the Sylenth1, NI Massive and NI Maschine."

This photo from Dave Gahan's New York City studio shows his Native Instruments Maschine. Kurt Uenala, Dave Gahan's technician, uses Maschine for drum programming. He says: "Maschine is very intuitive. If you want to tune it down there’s no submenu, you just turn down the pitch knob. It’s very rewarding in that way, like a [Jupiter synth](https://equipboard.com/items/roland-jupiter-8-synthesizer). I love that." Original article [here](http://www.sonicscoop.com/2012/07/01/david-gahan-of-depeche-mode-an-inside-look-at-his-very-personal-studio/#sthash.eDA7Xk1G.dpbs).

At 0:26 you can see the Native Instruments Maschine underneath the APC40 on the left side

"I also used the Native Instruments Maschine. I’m not quite as proficient with it but it’s incredibly powerful and I love it. I’m always stuck between wanting to learn stuff and wanting to do stuff with the things that I know, so the Maschine is just this thing that I struggle with because it’s so great, but I’ve only scratched the surface with it. I’m not proficient with it the way that I am with other stuff." -RJD2, [Reverb.com Interview](https://reverb.com/news/reverb-interview-rjd2-on-his-favorite-gear-and-artists-hed-kill-to-work-with) Ramble has also gone on GearSlutz to talk about his gear. In this forum post, he mentions using the MPC for the entirety of the Deadringer album.

At 1:48, Next to his Pioneer EFX-500, Tommy Lee is seen with a Native Instruments Maschine.

you can see it faintly at the beginning not sure what generation though.

At 3:55 in this stage tour video, Martin mentions how the Maschine MK1 is a key element in this setup. He says, "This little thing's been rock solid. We don't really use the drum library. We just use it as a conduit for the vocal samples that we've brought from the record to the live realm."

hot since 82 says: ''Gotta love native instruments :)''

In this interview, at 5:37, with Marc Ramboy, Robert talks the differences between the analog and digital gear by comparing his 909 and Maschine.

"MASCHINE is going to change my life I can already tell damnnnnnnn"

In this video the legendary No I.D. talks about his love for the Native Instruments Maschine. The Maschine can first be spotted at :19s, with No I.D. saying "this is one of my favorite programs that I have in this workstation. And I really love just the way the clock from my programming in drums is probably the tightest thing since I was on a physical drum machine."

At 0:17 we can see an Native Instruments MASCHINE MK2 on the top right corner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tfx_u2RwQM

"The Maschine is the heart of my whole setup. I do my drums in Maschine, I do my vocal samples in Maschine... this has been a life saver." Marc Kinchen uses a Maschine to remix "Look Right Through" by Storm Queen in this video by Native Instruments.

A Native Instruments Maschine can be seen in Birdy Nam Nam's studio at 0:57 of this video. It is sitting on the right side of the desk.

We can see the Maschine in the photo - it's hard to tell if this is MK1 or MK2.

In this video, at 1:52, a picture of Bugus and Russ can be seen,with Russ holding the Native Instruments Maschine.

Native Instruments Maschine

You can see a Maschine in Akira Yamaoka's home studio at 00:13, on top of a DJ mixer.

Plastikman (richie Hawtin) talks to future music about his live stage setup in bestival 2010

Rameses B posted on his Facebook a video of him testing his Maschine.

This item can first be seen around 0:13.

At the end of the interview he lists all of his studio gear. Although it's date is 2010, I tried to list only stuff I know he has till this day.

Dot use the NI Maschine in lots of London Grammar's performances.

Neelix working in his kitchen today! Mashine sitting on the chair!

"it's like it came directly from another galaxy. ???????????????? #maschine #newtoys #videotime"

Using for live acts, the older version of Maschine. Spotted on '14 august.

The Mschine can be seen 0:52 into this video

«I mainly use MASCHINE from Native Instruments for drum loops, even though you can create whole songs in there. I love the 50 per cent quantisation function that allows you to play a rhythm and quantise it just half way to the spot – really useful! I use my own drum samples from Riemann Kollektion as well as the factory library, but I tend to layer sounds to shape their characteristics»

In this Facebook picture, Ephixa's penguin is in the studio front of a Traktor Kontrol S2 & at left it can be seen a Native Instruments Maschine MKI

this artist use it at lives!

uses in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1qdZNv2uHc

seen beneath the ableton push

The core of the setup is a MacBook Pro 13 with Ableton live, APC40 controller, and a MASCHINE.

The core of the setup is a MacBook Pro 13 with Ableton live, APC40 controller, and a MASCHINE.

There's a Maschine controller near the monitors in DJ Pierre's studio

Does anyone need a NI Machine MK1? I'm selling mine on eBay ???? user: SPYDNB

In this episode of Producers House, you can see the Maschine on the floor.

"My setup is very compact, as it’s becoming more and more difficult to travel with equipment every day." Rodriguez JR Interview - January 16th, 2014 http://analogik.com/articles/21894/rodriguez-jr-interview Rodriguez JR used the Maschine MKI controller from Native Instruments. In several lives in the year 2013. Now the Equipment is changing but keep always kind of compact. new equipment 2016 : http://djtechtools.com/2016/01/28/rodriguez-jr-interview-how-i-play/

This item can be seen in this Twitter picture, uploaded by Wankelmut himself.

compare that video with image on main page http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/maschine/production-systems/maschine/

In this report you can see DJ Ride in the finals of Red Bull Thre3style 2015in Tokyo, during he's set and playing with pads in he's Maschine MK1.

NI Maschine MK1 box in the video

Can be seen at 2:06 on Felix' desk. They are using the Maschine Mikro.

"I use maschine to play live with."

Maschine Studio sinvali

"Belief Defect point to sonic possibilities steeped in grimy, distorted industrial muck, drawing on techno's rhythmic urgency and sounds, but finding new forms around them... ...MASCHINE provides tactile control for the REAKTOR ensemble’s inner workings, and acts as a MIDI sequencing hub."

confirmation at 0:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGR455hN7s

Using it in this Against the clock challenge

This item can be seen in this Instagram picture, uploaded by the artists themselves. Quote: > " Blowing the dust off the classic @nativeinstruments Maschine today to have a little play ???? #maschine #drums #housemusic "

Seen in the photo from his studio.

This item can be seen in this Instagram picture, uploaded by the artists themselves.

This is what holds my tracks together. you can use it and just fall in love.

Can be seen in 0:08.

It's on his table on the left!

At 1:00 of this video he has used Maschine for the synth loop which he has played in the song.

When the video fades in, Taylorythm can be seen with a Novation Impulse 61, two Launchpads, a Korg Nanokontrol, a Macbook running Ableton Live, NI's Maschine, and an M-Audio Axiom 25.

Dom Kane takes future music on a studio tour

This link provides information regarding studio equipment that Danny serrano uses in the studio. The Maschine being one of the most important components. Check it out!!

The camera zooms in on it at 3:39.

"Hardly very original, am I? But the Maschine is excellent, and since they added the colouration circuits to the outputs it is even closer to the old MPC for bashing beats together." Page 6: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/my-studio/alex-smoke/

(italian web magazine interview)

I know him, because we both had started producing music nearly at the same time. We are members of the community "unitedsb.de".

Photos taken by Hypnos Studio of Seismal D

MIDERA is using a Maschine with a Window Surface Pro.

The Maschine can be seen at 0:19 in the video

"They’ve melded analog outboard modular gear with a rig built around MASCHINE and REAKTOR. This setup turned REAKTOR into both a playground for achieving whatever sounds they desire, and a hub for controlling the resulting mayhem. MASCHINE provides tactile control for the REAKTOR ensemble’s inner workings, and acts as a MIDI sequencing hub."

The use Native insturments mashcine

You can see the Maschine in this live photo.

troy pierce use machine when play live!

In this Instagram photo of Hot Mouth's cat, the word "Maschine" can be visibly seen on a piece of equipment

In this Instagram photo we can see they use Maschine by Native Instruments. On the photo they say: "Our hotel tour gear on point today! For that dj/producer equipment software advice and studio solutions check it out @tonecontrolods !!!!! #music #tonecontrol #studio #gadget #netherlands"

This item can be clearly seen at 0:22, in this YouTube video, uploaded by Future Music Magazine.

I'm in Beat-making mode right now. #djkazzanovastudio #maschine #studiolife #studioone #focal #ns10 #genelec

In this Instagram picture, Marcus of Collarbones can be seen practicing on a Maschine in preparation for their live show later that day

Finally sorting my studio out. I'll post again once it's finished!! Heaps more gear coming

This is the artist playing it during one of the shows

> Cette machine prend une place importante dans mon live, c'est un outil super intuitif qui me permet d'improviser des rythmiques et des grooves en direct. J’aime pouvoir sortir du cadre défini de mon live et jammer en fonction des réactions du public. Puis elle me permet aussi de créer des périodes de transitions quand deux morceaux ont des ambiances trop différentes.

Maschine as showing In Ziger's studio

It's one of those nights again.... #studio

In the bottom of the photo you can see, a Maschine.

eminence have an native intruments maschine white..