![]() Inside the packaging is a small bracket that attaches to the underside of the unit and elevates Jam’s profile so it’s flush alongside a Maschine or Maschine Micro controller. It also comes with a full license for Maschine 2.5 and Komplete 11 Selection, making it a potential foundation product for new users to the platform.įor owners of the traditional MPC-styled Maschine family, Jam will be a natural extension. ![]() Opposite to Live’s Session view, Maschine’s Scenes are presented in columns rather than rows, consistent with the existing paradigm of Maschine. Its click-pad grid also provides rapid interaction with Maschine’s Scenes - at a glance, you can see which Patterns are active within each Group. With Jam, Maschine users now have an 8×8 grid of ‘click pads’ for a much improved step sequencing experience that can double as a means for playing melodic parts. Maschine Jam (I’ll refer to it as ‘Jam’ henceforth) is the newest iteration of this lineage, and it addresses an alternative approach to the original MPC-inspired Maschine concept, one which will be familiar to users of Push/APC/Launchpad with Ableton’s Live. Thanks to its 4×4 grid of super-sensitive drum-pads and built-in graphic displays, it offered the same hands-on approach to composition and performance enjoyed by Akai MPC users without being shackled to a preset amount of hardware processing power. The mcu compatibility ensures operation with different software unless you want to program the compact and lose the lcd's and timecode.When Maschine was originally released back in 2008, it was a game changer without peer the first virtual instrument to successfully integrate a dedicated control surface while retaining the benefit of using your computer as its ‘brain’. Since I already have the bcr2000 there is no need for me to get the x-touch compact since I want one for my x32 and x-air mixers. Selecting one or the other is a matter of workflow and preference. The x-touch and x-touch compact can be dasychained. I'm still checking things out and would not be able to tell if there is a problem with ableton live yet, but as far as I can tell, if the original mcu universal can do it then the x-touch can as well. The fast forward/backward transport keys act as the shuttle control anyway. To my knowledge the mackie mcu controller have never had a shuttle control around the jog-wheel so there would be no benefit of including one since the mcu-protocol wouldn't support it and with different speed options. Others like it when it sits on the top of the surface. It's jus a preference of mine having jog-control recessed into the working surface. The jog-wheel is of average quality/feeling and does the job. Do you still think the full version is worth the price differance? The jog-wheel might be a tipping factor but both you and the video review seems a bit let down by it. I have a hard time to decide between the compact or the full version of the X-touch as the price is quite a bit higher on the full version. ![]() I see you also tried it with Ableton Live, did it work as expected with that DAW as well. It has only two usb ports and I'd rather have four of them but when connected to my macbook pro having a single cable and then the cubase dongle connected to the x-touch is great!īengtfalke wroteThank you for your first impressions. I like that they have included an usb-hub. Overall I feel it is a pretty well built unit. I'm told that there will probably be a user selectable fader speeds in a later firmware so that a user might be able to trade speed for smoothness. The faders moves very quick and snappy and this is noticable with smooth recorded movments as the faders moves faster than the actual automation movment due to the 'large' midi steppings so the fader playback may not seem as smooth at times. The faders feels just like the x32 faders (probably the exact same faders) so I feel at home. ![]() ![]() Also, studioone doesn't support scrubbing.Īs for the jog-wheel I'm a fan of having things like that at surface level rather than on top of it.Īs mentioned before, studioone doesn't make use of all the control buttons but looking at Lawrence efforts that I found the other day it looks promising to add additional functionality to those buttons. What I miss in studioone is that the jog-wheel jumps one bar at a time and this is per presonus design and it is not configurable. However, timecode works with studioone, reaper and ableton live (and logic according to a friend) suggesting that cubase is the issue and not the x-touch. He mentions that timecode doesn't work in cubase and I get the same in cubase 8. Bengtfalke wrotePlease, tell us about your experiences this far. ![]()
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