![]() ![]() The sister plugin to the equally relevant Beat Machine, Crate Digger puts a huge variety of golden-era-style hip-hop sounds at your fingertips in an interface that’s… well, adequate but in no way groundbreaking. Read Native Instruments Maschine Mk3 review Prev of 11 Next Prev of 11 Next This is a genuine one-stop groove production shop, with a slick, smooth workflow and limitless creative scope. Samples can be loaded or resampled onto pads, MPC-style plugin instruments and effects are fully supported and a huge library of NI Expansions is available for adding sounds and presets to your Maschine library, many of them specifically made for hip-hop. The software works standalone for the production of full tracks, or as a synced plugin in a host DAW. The Maschine controller (the current version is Mk3) hooks into the Maschine DAW that comes with it via 16 RGB-backlit performance pads, a host of rotaries and buttons and two colour displays. Despite the pivotal role of the MPC groovebox in the early development of hip-hop, these days you’re more likely to find a Maschine MIDI controller in the studio of the urban beatmaker than its historic counterpart, partly thanks to Akai taking its eye off the ball for a while at the end of the noughties, but mostly because it’s an ace bit of kit in its own right.
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