The Best Thing About Mach 5 v2

hubercraft · Post by **hubercraft** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:25 pm

whats the best thing about Mach 5 v 2?

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:16 pm

It's here!

RCory · Post by **RCory** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:36 pm

among many other features - that full screen edit mode is pretty darn cool....

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:58 pm

Yes, I love the full screen. Plus, you can pull it over to another monitor (or another part of your large monitor) and still use the main screen, even set for different functions. It's truly an independent primary display window. It only displays one thing, of course -- the sample editor (mapping editor) and associated drop-down, slide-over, windows -- but it opens MachFive2 up for a much greater ease of use.

I also like the B-3 organ sliders. Very cool! They work like the real things.

I like the many levels of FX.

Reads disk images of your old sample disks

There are too many things to name. This is one cool application.

Shooshie

rcannonp · Post by **rcannonp** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:28 pm

How is the instrument editing in Mach5? I find Kontakt to be one of the most unintuitive apps that I own. If I just want to load an instrument and maybe add some effects I'm OK, but when I have to go in and tweak group settings or change an envelope on one sample then I have trouble.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:33 pm

I don't think it could get any easier. Click on the sample (key) or key group(s) and start changing parameters. Drag the velocity up or down for the entire group of samples if you like, and change your velocity crossovers in seconds. Add FX to a single note, a whole instrument, a velocity layer, or whatever you want.

It's really easy to use in that regard. If I can do it, anyone can. I'm a non-sampler using a sampler.

Shooshie

rcannonp · Post by **rcannonp** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:22 pm

I don't guess that there's a crossgrade is there?

I suppose I ought to take a day(or a week) and try to seriously figure out all of the little details of Kontakt - or maybe just keep using Reason and actually get something done.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:58 pm

Yeah, everyone talks like Kontakt2 is the way to go if you will spend the time getting to know it scripting tools and all that. But I wouldn't know. I'm as happy as a clam with MachFive2, so I guess ignorance is bliss!

Still, not drawing any comparisons to anything else, MachFive2 is really exactly what I want. It's just perfect for what I do.

Shooshie

Larry_81 · Post by **Larry_81** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:10 pm

Shooshie wrote: I'm as happy as a clam with MachFive2

Shooshie

Count me in as a second clam!

I've spent the last 3 days playing with Mach5 (Intel Macbook C2D/DP5) and I couldn't be happier either.

Admittedly I have only ever used SampleCell in the past, but I still couldn't imagine what's 'wrong' or 'missing' with it. It seems like there's plenty of functionality there if you want to explore it...I don't think I'll use it so in depth but it's nice to know it's there should I want to 'go deeper'.

Works a charm running samples off a dedicated external drive and unless you engage IR Reverb (luverly), CPU usage is quite acceptable I think.

I can work fairly quickly in it already (basic operation only of course) and I actually wrote a decent song last night (haven't done THAT in a while) using M5 only...such was my enthusiasm!

Well done MOTU

Sarcazm · Post by **Sarcazm** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:21 pm

The GT drum kits.

Most playable toms I've played with to date!

3rdpath · Post by **3rdpath** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:28 pm

1st: it arrived and it works flawlessly on my intel machine.
2nd: it reads all of my v1 libraries so i only have to reload my gigas with keyswitching.
3rd: like the fx
4th: included libraries are better than decent...though not great.
lastly: has not crashed once....

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:29 am

From everything I've heard, I'd say the best thing about Machy is that vII proves MOTU is not only still capable of it, but also willing to put in the hard yards that are required to create top-notch software.
I was counting on MOTU to deliver the goods, if only for my own peace of mind.

If I had MachFiveII in my greasy mits, I'd likely say the best thing about it was that I finally had it.

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:51 am

rcannonp wrote:I suppose I ought to take a day(or a week) and try to seriously figure out all of the little details of Kontakt

That Kontakt tutorial DVD NI puts out is pretty good. 49.00. But I got mine used on ebay for like 20.00

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utility531 · Post by **utility531** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:49 pm

The convolution reverbs are quite nice! And keyswitching - German piano is great. All the additional samples etc

homebilly · Post by **homebilly** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:59 pm

that it is not Kontakt 3. they don't sound too happy over on the other boards.