Back in January, Native Instruments announced that it would be bringing Play Series instruments and Expansions sound packs to the Akai MPC platform and teaming up with Akai and a number of other ...

Since it first caught the world's attention at NAMM '09, Native Instruments' Maschine has made quite a stir in the world of electronic music production and performance. A modern re-imagining of Akai's ...

Forget debating the relative merits of headliners Elton John, Guns N' Roses and Arctic Monkeys: the issue that was exercising the minds of electronic musicians over Glastonbury weekend was Fred again.

More than just a drum machine, Maschine represents a whole new world for hands-on beat makers. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing products to ...

Native Instruments’ new Maschine is the most radical redesign to the controller since it transformed beatmaking back in 2009. But is the new model just a re-skinned version of eight-year-old hardware?

This shrunken Maschine is everything you'd expect it to be, and crucially, it retains the fun factor of the big 'un. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours ...