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Maschine Studio + Maschine software integration is still unbeatable when it comes to drums prog .

 
Well I read all the Maschine manuals from start to finish and same with Geist. It became apparent that Geist is far more flexible for sequencing and Maschine has too many limitations.
 
Maschine is a great standalone controller, the software is good for a live instrument, and integration is good standalone. But the major problem with it is...
 
a) Bugs (not that many, but they are whoppers).
b) Pain in the ass when you are swapping sounds around as a VST plugin.
c) Performance as a VST plugin (esp when you have other VST plugins plugged into this VST plugin  ). Of course a lot of that can't be helped but people have noticed big performance problems in later versions of Maschine.
d) Stupidly the patterns always must loop if they are shorter than scenes. There is no way around this. Rumours are it will be fixed... one day..
e) Sonar now crashes with Maschine as a VST, been like this for ages now.
f) Major PC only bugs, such as it will become unusable if you use more than one MIDI out... which has been around for years. They only really care about Apple it seems.
g) The colours of the UI are terrible for me (bad visibility on a black background). It's about time they introduced a way of customizing them.
 
So off to Geist I went. One prays NI will fix these issues one day. So NI didn't fully deliver for me sadly, they are too tied up in their own marketing to offer good support, and rarely if ever communicate in user forums... It's sad really because a lot of the problems they have wouldn't take many resources to fix.
 
/rant over 

I have zero issues with it .. i have a methodologie that preserves me from what you call issues ....zero crashes under sonar .... and performance wise, since they introduces kits that have more and more  a lot of fx and vst like massive ext ..i tend to reqet pads that are not used andni usually have lile 5kits loaded easy ...

So Battery didn't make the top 10?

it's not a suequencer but a sampler specialised in drums

Battery would be great if it had a sequencer built in. I mean it's already great, but would be awesome if you could rustle up some patterns in there without having to wade into the piano roll. 

I like and have battery but as said earlier no sequencer built in, it's just a trigger sampler and slicer. You could get Geist to trigger it, but then you realise Geist already already offers battery functionality and a sequencer, so there is not much point.

They both have their pros and cons. Battery is great if you need tons of pads, the effects are great and the browser I think is better than Geist.

Yeah Geist browser not good, I use Windows Explorer and drag&drop for that.

Any one used Howling Dog's Power Chords Pro?

Believe It or not Mixcraft Pro 7.5  takes some beating
 
Very simple and effective to use.
Other than that ZX Spectrum!!!---SAUSAGES!!!

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Other than that ZX Spectrum!!!

Now you are talking...
 
Great sequencer...