Members ChristianRock Posted July 27, 2012 Members Share Posted July 27, 2012 So I got a 30 dollar NI voucher for buying Komplete 8... I'm looking at Maschine expansions. To me they are priced a bit high, but at half the price all of a sudden it makes sense to try one. Now I know a lot of people here have Maschine and I wonder how many have tried the expansions. I've been looking at getting Transistor Punch - the drum sounds are gorgeous and better than the ones in the standard Maschine library, for electronic music. There's also some good pads and FX. It's a small library but it seems to be stacked with good sounds. Yet yesterday I saw that NI released a new modular-based expansion (Raw Voltage) and it sounds very good! It's a larger library than TP and the sounds seem pretty useful. There's even some very good drum bass sounds and some interesting snares. But TP would be a more bread-and-butter type of expansion, the snares and some of the basses are just gorgeous, and the bass drums are perfectly serviceable. I'm skipping the hip hop expansions for obvious reasons... this expansion would be because Maschine is already too heavy toward hip hop sounds and not enough good EDM sounds, IMO. So, anyone here with Maschine who tried Transistor Punch? Does it really add something? Anyone planning to get Raw Voltage? Or should I just skip the expansions altogether and just get something else from the NI store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChristianRock Posted August 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 6, 2012 So I went with Raw Voltage. Nice drum sounds, very useful for high energy/darker music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Caligvla Posted August 6, 2012 Members Share Posted August 6, 2012 I've been looking at those expansions as well ... Worth it at full price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChristianRock Posted August 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 6, 2012 That's a tough question. It's really nice and it saves you a lot of time because everything is already tagged and mapped out, and some of them do have very good sounds. I got it because I paid 29 bucks for it. I think if they were sold at that price, they would be very worth it. 59 dollars... I don't know. I'm going to hold off because I think once a year they drop them in price. If that happens and I can get them at half price I'll get a couple more. Maybe we're just getting spoiled and picky - back in the Roland MC-x0x and Yamaha RS7000 days, I bet people would have paid 200-300 dollars easily for expansions with half this quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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