Maschine is in a way NI's DAW, or at least as close to it as it can... They would need to bring the audio recording to the table to make it a daw in it's own right!
To be honest I think this all Max 4 Live it's all to geeky, don't get me wrong I like a little myself but I do think most people care about looks/ intuitiveness I mean we spend countless hours looking at these things... I can see this move as something really exciting for more technical skilled people... but for the general user there is a genuine risk of alienating and make live look more and more a far from this idea of how simple and easy to learn and use it...
take a simple example ... Denon as always been superior to Pioneer, for the same price most of times you get more feat.s per $ with a Denon.
I remeber 5 years ago a Denon S5000 was absolutly mind blowing BUT it's not easy to read! you need to practice, explore and learn how to use it ... Pioneer totally won the market just by keeping simple/ easy to understand and use...
Just 3 year ago I was so much more difficult for me to sell a Traktor over a Serato, just because had way to much stuff for people's minds at the time...
So in sum I really think the world does not have much more head space for another DAW, unless it is radically different, but mainly it is much easier / fast to learn and use... maybe one with a gigantic "Make me a Hit" button or some mind reading facilities lol
Personally I've realised I spend to much time crafting and sculpting sounds and the perfect mix, and not as much making actual music!! I think we are as a whole maybe losing a little bit of the right focus!
What would I like Traktor to evolve?? Maybe the ability to make yer own effect racks (which would allow some sort of effect automation and sequencing), a Joystick Crossfader (X-fade between 4 Channels)... one of the effects could be some sort of frequency band cross fader, another one could be sidechain compressing between decks by band ... I don't really mix in key or worry to much about it, but would love a realtime analysis and compatibility info for key and spectral content of each track ...
More a more it is easy to pile tracks, but very very few people pull it off, making it sound as if only 1 track is playing
Z
PS - I haven't seen any1 implement a simple but usefool/ Cool feat ... A SOLO Button (like the Korg Zero Mixers)...
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