Mach Five Demos?

[omnicow]

I've looked on the Motu website, and for some reason, they dont have any demo mp3s of their Mach Five sampler. I just wanted to hear what kind of beats this software is capable of making, and what kind of control over the sound of the samples this program has. If anyone has any tracks they made with the Mach Five, I'd love to hear them. That's just a lot of money to drop for a program without hearing what it's capable of doing.

[chrispick]

I've looked on the Motu website, and for some reason, they dont have any demo mp3s of their Mach Five sampler. I just wanted to hear what kind of beats this software is capable of making, and what kind of control over the sound of the samples this program has. If anyone has any tracks they made with the Mach Five, I'd love to hear them. That's just a lot of money to drop for a program without hearing what it's capable of doing.

Well, M5 is a sampler, so it's capable of playing any beat sounds you load into it, provided the sound's in the right file format. It currently ships with a few conventional drum kit samples as well as some standard-MIDI-style electronic kits.

Aside from that, you get the usual, basic sample edit tools (e.g., loops and crossfades, etc.) and a bunch of process effects like reverbs, phasers, ring modulators and similar (most of which sound pretty good, I think).

If you're looking for a dedicated beat generator or loop manipulation tool, check out Stylus RMX. It's built to do just that. Other options include NI Battery, fxpansion Guru and numerous REX players of differing flexibility.

[russhughes]

I have both MachFive and Stylus and I agree if you after grooves and beats beyond your imagination then Stylus is the way to go. MachFive is a great sampler so you need that too for great sample playback from ennless libraries. I have both for that reason.