

The controller is powered and connected by USB, with each variation featuring 16 pressure sensitive pads and back-lit buttons.

This product is part of a series - buy the entire collection & save $35.The Maschine controller is designed like a drum machine, similar to products like the Akai MPC. Warm up your fingers, crack those knuckles and dust off those pads - it's time to get finger drumming again! And Dirty Drummer 3 uses the exact same kit layout as all previous Dirty Drummer volumes, making it easy to mix-and-match kits and sequences. The expansion editions feature 6 additional sound patches per kit, full 'tagging' for the Media Browser plus program previews and demo sequences with velocity-switched and 'cycle kit' versions provided for each kit.Īnd our unrivalled support for all legacy MPCs continues with dedicated programs for all older hardware MPC models, including 'round robin' kits for JJOS 'XL', JJOS3 and MPC5000, a 12 pad version for the MPC500, a memory-optimised version for the MPC60/MPC3000, 3 layer velocity switched edition for the MPC2000/XL and 4 layer editions for MPC1000/2500 (Akai OS & free JJOS) and MPC4000.įinally we've also thrown in Maschine 2.0 and Battery 4 editions for those who prefer sometimes turn to the 'dark side'!Ībsolutely no configuration is needed, simply load the program file made for your MPC model all samples are mapped out for you in a very finger drumming friendly way along with all mixer settings and pad parameters to handle velocity switching, round robins and open hat mutes. It doesn't matter which MPC model you own as we've created individually optimised program files for all of them! First up there's a dedicated 'standalone' expansion version for the MPC X, MPC Live, MPC One and Akai Force and an expansion installer for the MPC Software/MPC Beats also suitable for MPC Renaissance, MPC Studio and MPC Touch (compatible with MPC Software 1.9 and 2.x). Each kit is packed full of drum articulations kick, snare, side stick, snare 'drag' (a short snare roll), crash, closed and open hat, ride (centre hit), ride bell, tom, 'ghost' kick and snare (for adding subtle groove hits), and a selection of percussion including separate 'up' and 'down' shakers.
