lqdsnddist
Axe-Master
Well I have pro tools and no clue how to use it. Daws take a lot of time investment and honestly see now benefit over maschine. They are about the same price as some daws. 600$ new used a lot cheaper and you could do live still with a good finger drummer and has soooo many more possiblities than traditional drums. Whole new world
Maschine is a sampling drum machine that has a great hands on physical interface for loop/pattern based creation, and can load vsts, effects etc too. It’s limited to a finite number of tracks though and wouldn’t be my choice for traditional recording and mixing down of a complete arrangement.
I often will route Maschine into my DAW, Ableton though, and Maschine can run in a midi mode where it becomes a nice tactile interface for the DAW software.
You can do some pattern based stuff in a lot of DAWs these days too, so the line is kind of blurring, and Maschine is becoming a bit better arranger too with its new modes and features.
I like maschine for simpler stuff since I can work with it and don’t need to use a mouse or look at the pc screen. Great for ideas and backing stuff too, but if I’m wanting to layer guitar tracks, vocals etc I’ll track into Ableton.