![]() ![]() Or add a little swing to your drums with Humanize. Use Randomize to create new patterns and melodies on the fly. The new Variation Engine is perfect for adding texture to a track or sparking new ideas. Combine it with the new Morph function to discover new transitions or add improvisation during a performance. Lock lets you freeze your current settings, tweak a sound, change an envelope, and return back to your initial settings at the press of a button. Then mix and match until you find a groove you like. Record alternate musical phrases or play different beats nonstop. With MASCHINE 2.6.5, Ideas view was added to make sketching and arranging tracks more intuitive. In case you missed the recent MASCHINE software updates, here are some of our favorite features. Or strum samples, synths, and drums like a guitar. Add new sonic textures, builds, or transitions with advanced performance FX like stutter and scratch. Use it like a keyboard wheel to pitch-bend and modulate sounds. The Smart Strip opens up MASCHINE to whole new ways of playing. You can also map your most frequently used FX, instruments, or plug-in parameters to macros with the touch of a button. Touch once to activate special contextual menus, such as tag clouds, sound settings, and FX parameters. Go beyond tweaking with eight touch sensitive knobs. Quickly jump between views with one-touch access to the Arranger, Mixer, Sound Browser or Sampler. Open a recent project, make changes, and save it as a new file without ever touching the mouse with new Save and Open buttons. Program accents and ghost notes quickly with 16 fixed velocity levels or get a smooth, constant volume when triggering samples. Transport buttons now include deeper integration with most DAWs and direct access to Follow and Tempo Tap. Play fills and arps during a performance with a larger, easier-to-find button. Simply touch a knob to assign your favorite parameters to macros and start tweaking. Take parameter snapshots, tweak settings, and return back to the original settings to discover new transitions. Instead of being hidden behind a shift-function button, some of the most-used features and functions can now be accessed directly with one touch.ĭrum rhythms, program patterns, or play melodies and chords, switching easily with the click of a button. The new hardware layout cuts through the clutter to help you stay focused and get your ideas out fast. Plus, it’s USB-powered, so you can record anywhere with your laptop – or plug in the included power supply unit for brighter pads. Stereo line and MIDI ports make it a perfect centerpiece for any studio. Simply patch in a synth or add a dynamic mic for quick recording and sampling. MASCHINE now comes with a studio-grade, 96kHz / 24-bit audio interface for pristine sound. Plus, the high-res screens let you get more precise with your mixing, see an overview of your arrangement, or zoom in on waveforms to slice samples like a surgeon. With two full-color displays and the four-directional push encoder, you can browse sounds, FXs, plug-ins, and instruments with a tactile, one-handed, completely visual workflow – simply find the thumbnail and load directly from the hardware. And since the center-to-center distance is exactly the same, your muscle memory and workflow don’t have to change. New technological updates make the pads more sensitive to lighter touches, for more expressive playing. BIGGER PADSīig, bold, and in your face, the larger pads create more room for complex moves like flams and rolls. Optimized based on customer research, it’s packed with new features to boost your speed and increase your focus all without breaking the workflow you love. ![]() The new MASCHINE takes our classic groovebox workflow and makes it faster and more intuitive.
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I don't want them to think a cultural victory is beyond me. It's not what the PC players would do is it? And you know how they sniff at the streamlined console game. But uh oh, did I do it using military might? It's totally valid it's just. ![]() I've conquered the world, outmanoeuvred some of history's best known leaders. But if I can just hold out the one day it will come. It would be so much neater if I could just wipe the board clean and start again. And I bet bloody Bismarck and the Germans attack me while I'm all-in elsewhere again.Īnd what about the temptation of starting over again - can I push through it this time? My empires tend to get awfully messy and unfocused as the game rolls on. But will I be ready? I don't want to do what I normally do and underestimate how strong an empire really is, and suddenly face a swarm of armies descending upon me. Then when I'm ready, I will tiptoe over his border and declare war. Now Genghis Khan wants to be friends - shall I shake his hand? I don't want to, he's a menace and I don't trust his moustache, but maybe a truce will do for now. Or how about science? Maybe one day I will take the Aztecs into space. Next, what kind of civilization would I like to pursue? Is military muscle the focus of my research, or do I want to wow my people with cultural wonders instead? Decisions, decisions. Would I like to put down roots here, next to a beautifully unspoilt river and rich grassland, or there, next to a mountain range glittering with riches? Then, where would I like to create my empire? A bewitching question. I can write my own history, I can cheat time and have the ancient Romans take on Queen Elizabeth. ![]() Would I like to be Cleopatra or Gandhi, Lincoln or Catherine the Great (while I'm on the subject: check out Helen Mirren's Catherine the Great on Amazon Video, it's good - saucy but good)? In this world, they all exist together. And it seemed like everything could be controlled by pressing A.įrom the moment I chose a character, I was smitten. It was bright and colourful, big and chunky. CivRev was friendly, it was warm - it came out in the summer and I remember it feeling a bit like summer. It managed to streamline something complex without sacrificing the essence of what it was. It was wonderful, CivRev, to use a bit of the old lingo. To make it work, Civilization, Firaxis would have to redesign it. A menu-heavy, micro-managey desktop game doesn't naturally translate to being played on a controller while slumped on a sofa a few feet away from a TV. PC players and console players like slightly different things. And it was with this spirit someone at Firaxis made a wonderful suggestion: What if now was the time to bring Civilization to consoles? I suppose it was to do with games going online into a bold new frontier. It was the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 generation and for some reason it felt like a new age. ![]() And there was something in the air back then. Had I known I actually would be spending all day in my pyjamas in 2020, I might not have minded, but this was 2008. I wanted to spend all day in my pyjamas playing conqueror. ![]() I'd hear them talk about spending whole days or weekends engrossed in it, and how they wanted cultural victories by building great wonders for their people, about how they wanted to shape their worlds. I used to be so jealous of people who played Civilization. |
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