Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK3

Amazing little device

Bought this model after thinking a lot about the options, and I am totally pleased. The software and hardware combo is highly playable after a couple of tutorials (the NI ones on Youtube are highly recommended), and the value for money is outstanding. No regrets at all, would order this item again without a doubt.

Not my cup

When I bought this I was expecting that I would be able to use it with a Daw like ableton. But NI's software is lacking, because you're tightly locked in their ecosystem. The product is fine, but NI's software is a bit outdated

The maschine mikro is perfect beyond words,the performance is insane, the size of this thing & what it does is crazyyy!🤩

Great value for money!

I 've only had it for a few days, but I am impressed by the quality. The maschine mikro feels well made overall, pretty sturdy in spite of its size, pad sensitivity is great and you just get so much control out of this small device. The Maschine software takes some getting used to, but the good thing is you can use it as a plug-in in any daw, so you don't have to "learn" a lot if you don't want to. All in all, I 'm really happy with my purchase.

Love this little thing

I'm using it as companion to NI S61 MK2. I get used to play drums on the pads and my keyboard does not have them. I was thinking between MK3 and Mikro and I selected latter because I have all of the MK3s commands on my keyboard already so I would pay just for duplication of they keys and displays.

Maschine is great for making ideas fast while composing or making beats that need a day to learn.

Great controller

It's a great controller. I use it with mac m1 pro. After you make the setup for it works very well. Pads are of good quality and customisable. Sometimes the controller needs to be unplugged and plugged again because it blocks. Don't know the reason why.

Maschine MK 3 Mikro

Excellent Device! Great build quality and super portable. I love these sensitive dynamic drum Pads 🔥

Love It!

This product is perfect for starting doing drum section and controlling Maschine.

16 pads that can easily integrated into any beat VST.

dedicated buttons for controlling your preferred DAW.

Excellent!!

Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK3

top-notch in build quality & features wrt cost, no issues found .. the pads responds nicely and are very well playable .. it features midi-mode and integrates seamlessly with the pads of various virtual instruments like ableton drum-rack & cubase groove-agent & fxpansion Geist2 .. use the group buttons to change the grids of the pads - no mapping for pads is needed

A complete surprise and unexpected surprise!

I bought it as an extension to my keyboard (I am more of a piano player thus I prefer to compose using an 88 keyboard) . I really was not expecting for it to be use much, just to play around. However, I found myself heavily using it. It has a high quality construction. At first, I thought that because of the plastic housing it was going to be just a cheap looking instrument, but to my surprise it is very sturdy and high quality looking. I just love the feeling of the buttons and knobs.

Pro:

Excellent mobility capabilities. It is really easy to transport and works perfectly with a Surface Pro 4 Computer with a Core I5 and 8GB of ram. I found my self now continuing music production in airplanes, train and outdoors.

Cons:

It does not have a proper Audio interface. For the mobility part, it would have been really perfect to have a good Audio Interface so that you can listen with good quality on the go. Also there was random activation of some pads when I pressed hard, but then I realize that the sensitivity was to high. Problem was solved by reducing sensitivity slightly.