In this 14 part miniseries we discuss how to navigate through your Maschine Mk2, from browsing samples and presets to finalizing a project inside of Maschine.
This is what happens when you take 1950s valve-driven technology – courtesy of the amazing Jennings Univox valve synthesiser – and pump it with so many tachyons that it warps through its own wormhole into an alternate future. Well, not really. But that’s kind of what we were thinking when we started Jennings Mk 2: what would a massive analogue polysynth – the kind Roland were building in the 80s, say – sound like if the only technology available was 1950s valves? A multi-oscillator monster with all kinds of LFOs and modulation and so on, but with a valve heart? Well, no such thing exists, of course; so we built it. And it turns out it sounds pretty damn swell…
The ships piano is no Blüthner or Steinway, and there’s no chance of extracting rich sonorous tones from this fella …but its charming simplicity has lots and lots of useful character. Its very plinky without being too plonky….if you know what I mean. I’ve meticulously sampled every usable white note binaurally with 4 and sometimes 5 velocity layers for 155mb of 16bit samples. The MK2 version includes many extra Kontakt features including the “Satie-anator” which is best explained in the video below. MK2 version will only work on full Kontakt 4 and above.
