<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 14.08.2011, at 15:53, Gert van Santen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">The " problem" (or at least the thing I don't like) is that you *have* to use a computer with the controller - so no stand along music-bar jam fun.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I looked into it, and the computer part also turned me off. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a "Tempest" though...</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>OTOH, it does look a lot more intuitive than Maschine (which I own as well).<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>How does that fare? I am kinda hoping that with a Maschine I might be able to combine the best of Ableton with the best of MPC, would that work? It probably would mean that I'd need to recreate everything I have in Ableton now (120 tracks and nearly as many scenes for a show with 10 tracks so far), but I really really miss the track-mute functionality of the MPC... it just works so well. If only the MPC (2000, original) didn't have that 128 file limitation...</div><div><br></div><div>Kai</div><div><br></div></body></html>