MPC vs Maschine Which One Is Better??

You can make great music with both devices, in the end it just comes down to which workflow you prefer. People need to stop blaming gear for their lack of musicality 😂

I have both and use Maschine 90% of the time. The MPC is good for when im traveling.

My Maschine Studio has NEVER CRASHED on me, NEVER in 4 years!!!!

I've been making tracks since the Boss DR-550 drum machine & the ADAT recorder. I'm 50 years old. It truly depends how savy you are with a work flow & patches

So far the best head to head gear video. Thank you.

Super detailed and informative video. Thank you!

I agree with Bolo on the crashing aspect of it great video you told the truth 100% and I am a machine user

Mate, I love everything about you; knowledge, honesty and humour! Always a pleasure watching your vids. ❤

Excellent videos. Thorough and detailed. Thank you.

The crashing stuff would annoy the heck out of me. I work on computers all day so having a stand alone like the MPC Live 2 is a game changer. Being able to be productive sitting outside or chilling is awesome! Thanks for the honest reviews Bolo. Glad i found your channel... i'll be subscribing to keep up with your flow :D

Akai is on the cutting edge, the integration with with DAW is getting even better, Eurorack control is way ahead of everyone, if they can only add CV input, that will be a game changer!

I definitely enjoy the Mpc more with a computer. It’s easy to sequence all the vsts. Love it

keep blessing us with the good stuff.

Maschine MK3 Gang ALL DAY!!!!

I agree with everything bolo said. Spot on

Would love for you to continue doing videos like this comparing and reviewing equipment much love

Everyone talks about Maschine+ crashing alot, I have never had mine crash, just saying, however, I only use mine in standalone mode. What I have run into issues with on the Maschine+ is CPU usage, and most of that is related to using sounds from expansions that have multi layered effects. The way around this is to disable effects that are placed on the default sounds, as many of the effects are unnecessary or have very little impact on the sounds being played. What can make it frustrating in this regard is, when the CPU has trouble keeping up, sounds are choppy, regardless of what the CPU usage is showing on the device. If the sounds sound choppy, disable effects. The MPC Live 2 is stable as f*. I have never had CPU usage issues with my MPC Live 2, I mean, I did once but that was intentional when I was trying to see what I had to do to actually push the machine. You are going to be hard pressed to find situations where you will have CPU usage issues on the MPC platform. Usability between each device is just different. If you are good with shortcuts on a computer keyboard, the Maschine+ is going to appeal heavily to you. If you get around more visually, the MPC platform will appeal to you. The sounds builtin to the Maschine+ are just better. The Maschine+ synths are heads and shoulders above the MPC synths, with the exception of one key area, drums. The MPC platform has, what is in my opinion, a drum synth that can virtually replace just about every drum sample you have. Yes, it's that good, and it doesn't require a degree in soundshaping to use it. Using either of these devices as a controller is a moot point, that is not what these units are designed for. They are both functional, the software for the Maschine is better on PC, yes, but I am guessing most people already have Komplete in some form, just use your MPC as a controller for the Maschine software on the PC, ignore Beats 2, it's meh. In other words, if you have a MPC or a Maschine plugged into a computer, use Maschine software on the computer. These are both competent controllers. Alot of people like to talk about linear writing, as if that kind of functionality is not existant on the MPC. These people would be mistaken (see next paragraph). This requires a one sentence explanation, what is linear writing? Linear writing is the notion of writing each bar of music from scratch. This does not necessarily mean you arent copy and pasting, it does however mean you are manually adding content for each measure, for each instrument across the length of your track. MPC's take a different approach, which is wholly appropriate for beat writing, each segment of your song is designed to allow for easy copying. The most common way to write music on the MPC involves picking a few instruments / filling a couple banks of sounds on the pads (usually about two to four banks), writing out a segment of your song that will have all or nearly all of the instruments playing at once and then utilizing the track mute functionality to simply mute certain instruments during certain segments of your song. During your chorus for example, you would probably have nearly every instrument playing, during your verse, you would likely only have a few instruments playing, so you'd write your chorus to have nearly all the instruments playing, then in the verse, mute some instruments. Then, you simply arrange your song to play each segment with some tracks already muted first, then the next segment with nearly all the instruments unmuted (in the most simplistic example). Think of a song as having an introduction, a verse, a chorus, a verse 2, a chorus, repeating the chorus, a bridge, a chorus, another chorus, and an ending. In most modern music, nothing much changes between each segment, just more instruments are added to increase intensity. If you want to write linearly on the MPC, just increase how many bars you have in your segment to something ridiculous, like 999 bars. Done, now you have the ability to write linearly. The MPC just has more features and more functionality. Whether those features and functionality are something you need is a matter of debate, but if soundshaping and warping / mangling sounds is your thing, MPC wins hands down. Just as the quality of the synth sounds on the Maschine are better, so too are the effects. the difference however is marginal. The tradeoff is that the Maschine needs a ton of CPU to do the same things that the MPC does with almost no CPU usage. I like each platform for unique reasons. For me, the deciding factor is usability. The MPC has a touchscreen. I use a ton of different devices, I don't live inside the world of a device exclusively (or even close to exclusively), therefore, for me, the visual feedback and ques makes the MPC significantly more usable for me. If however I primarily wrote music on one solitary device, I could see the Maschine+ being faster than the MPC. Most everything is available on the Maschine+ through some combination of key shortcuts, where as the MPC will require menu diving to some degree. The menu diving doesn't bother me, but just know going in, on the MPC platform, expect to menu dive and on the Maschine+, expect to spend a few weeks learning and memorizing shortcuts, and definitely expect to have a cheatsheet handy until you have learned all the shortcuts. It gets real fun for both platforms when you find shortcuts that are undocumented, because they are shortcuts that were added after the documentation was written :) Bottom line is, whatever device you have, enjoy it, don't worry about what you are missing out on, they are both great.

YES ON THE USING KONTACT! We should be able to pull up all NI vst on the plus. Messes with my workflow

Love your videos homie! Always keep it a buck!!

Amazing video!! You’re right. They are two completely different forces. Everyone things I am team Maschine but I love it all. I am just trying to wrap my head around the MPC because it’s soooooo different from the Maschine’s software. Definitely gonna keep working on using my Live 2!! Thanks fam!