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The Maschine Jam is targeted at on-the-go producers who want a highly portable controller to sequence ideas and built tracks on the fly. We’ve seen the Notes function in action – it’s like taking the Scale mode of an Ableton Push and combining it with the playability of an autoharp or Omnichord – incredibly fun and easy to quickly add melodic flourishes to a track.

A powerful Lock function stores parameter snapshots that can revert back to their original settings or morph between multiple lock states.” “The Smart Strips each feature multi-color LED meters to monitor the level of the assigned function, and can be used to alter macros, key instrument parameters, and even play melodies and chords with the unique Notes function.

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The strips are mapped to new performance FX that come in a new update to the Maschine software, version 2.5 – and can be used to “alter the motion, space, and dynamics of sounds in real time”. Native Instruments has continued to add touch strips to their controllers, and the Maschine Jam is no exception with eight two-touch Smart Strips (once for each “channel strip”). Maschine Jam Smart Strips: For Performance That’s best suited for high-quality pads or arcade buttons that give you a solid physical response – not these basic push-button pads. While the product video at the top of this article does show a quick glimpse into finger drumming with the Maschine Jam’s pads in Pad Mode, based on the price, you won’t be using these pads to bang out beats on the fly regularly. A built-in humanizer adds natural rhythmic fluctuations to programmed sequences. When the Variation Engine is enabled, inspirational beats and melodies are randomly generated based on customizable values and then modified on the matrix.In Pad Mode, sounds are entered in real-time, while Piano Roll Mode makes step-sequencing melodies in a wide variety of available scales possible.In Step Mode, the matrix becomes a powerful multi-track step-sequencer for one, four, or eight sounds simultaneously.

NI’s press release details the functions of the pad section: The focal point is the 8×8 multicolored pad section that allows the arrangement of pads and scenes. The actual hardware of the Maschine Jam is fairly easy to understand. With this new controller, Native Instruments is clearly trying to add some of the dynamic modern workflow elements that producers have come to expect out of Ableton (with Push and Launchpad controllers) into Maschine. Maschine Jam: Maschine’s Missing Production Controller?Īs production software, Maschine has always been about emulation of the classic groovebox-style production workflow. Availability: September 29th, 2016 in the DJ TechTools Store.Build a track on the fly and perform it live with the Maschine Jam. Jam takes elements of Maschine controllers and Kontrol S-Series keyboards and combines them with arrangement workflows found on the Push or Launchpad. Big news from Native Instruments – they’re launching a brand new production controller called Maschine Jam.

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