<h2 class=" ">YOUR COMPACT BEATMAKING COMPANION</h2>
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<li>Make beats, play melodies, and build tracks hands-on – in the studio or on the go</li>
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<li>Play with inspiring sounds and effects for any style, including full versions of MASSIVE, MONARK, and REAKTOR PRISM</li>
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<h2 class=" ">YOUR BEAT. YOUR WAY.</h2>
<div>Meet MASCHINE MIKRO, your flexible, compact companion for making music with a laptop. Use it to tap out beats, play melodies, and build up tracks – fast, fun, and hands-on. Want to start creating right away? We’ve thrown in everything you need including instruments, sounds, effects, and powerful tools like sampling and drum synths.</div>
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<h2 class=" ">DRUM IT. PLAY IT. SKETCH IT.</h2>
<div>MIKRO gives you four different ways of getting hands-on with your music using the 16 pads. Drum beats in <span>Pad mode</span>, with color coding for kicks, snares, and other sounds. Switch to <span>Keyboard mode</span> to play melodies with the pads. In <span>Chord mode</span>, it’s easy to lay down inspiring chord progressions. And in <span>Step mode</span>, program beats and patterns visually in a classic step-sequencer style on the 16 pads – get exciting musical results quickly.</div>
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<h3 class=" text-left">QUICKLY LOAD AND SWAP SOUNDS</h3>
<div class="col-text text-left">Find, audition, and swap sounds without stopping the music. Browse through your favorite instruments, and load samples, projects and kits. A compact screen guides the multi-function encoder so you know exactly what you’re controlling, while staying in the creative flow.</div>
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<h3 class=" text-left">SAMPLE ANY SOUND</h3>
<div class="col-text text-left">Found a great sample? Hit the Sample button to quickly load it into your project from the software. Record from your audio interface to capture from vinyl, play in a guitar, or grab any other sound into your track. Shape and refine your samples using the powerful editing tools in the MASCHINE software.</div>
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<h2 class=" ">PLAY WITH SOUNDS IN NEW WAYS</h2>
<div>Add creative flourishes to your beats and melodies with the Smart Strip. Slide your fingers to bend sounds, strum instruments, or go wild with Perform FX like Stutter and Echo.</div>
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<h2 class=" ">USE ON ITS OWN, OR IN YOUR DAW</h2>
<div>MASCHINE MIKRO gives you everything you need to get creating music, and it also works as plug-in in Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase, FL Studio, or any other compatible DAW as a VST or Audio Unit. Use it to build up loops, then work with them in your DAW to quickly flesh out tracks, making it a powerful addition to your setup, however you make music.</div>
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<h2 class=" ">SMALL SIZE. SERIOUS TOOLS.</h2>
MASCHINE MIKRO makes it easy to get started. Go deeper with powerful tools at your fingertips.
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<h3 class=" ">STUDIO FX</h3>
<div class="col-text ">24 effects for polishing your music, including compressors, saturators, reverbs, and filters. Plus creative tools like Grain-Delay, Ice Verb, and Freq Shifter for adding color to your sounds.</div>
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<h3 class=" ">VARIATION</h3>
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<h3 class=" ">USB POWERED</h3>
<div class="col-text ">Create wherever you feel inspired. MASCHINE MIKRO is USB-powered for maximum portability.</div>
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<h3 class=" ">LOCK BUTTON</h3>
<div class="col-text ">Freeze your track parameter settings with Lock, leaving you free to go wild with FX, or any other sound parameter, and try out ideas. Then instantly go back.</div>
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<h3 class=" ">BASS AND DRUM SYNTHS</h3>
<div class="col-text ">Create your own kicks, snares, hi hats, and more, with the flexible Drum Synth, and dial in rich, studio-ready bass tones with Bass Synth – exclusives to MASCHINE.</div>
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<h3 class=" ">PERFORM FX</h3>
<div class="col-text ">Eight creative effects for enlivening your sounds, including Stutter, Burst Echo, Scratcher, and Flanger – perform with them using the Smart Strip.</div>
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<h3 class=" ">AUDIO PLUG-IN</h3>
<div class="col-text ">Record, load, and swap loops as they automatically adjust to your project’s tempo, and play loops musically, all with the innovative Audio plug-in.</div>
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<h3 class=" ">ACCESS MORE FUNCTIONS</h3>
<div class="col-text ">Quickly access handy functions like quantize, undo, and copy/paste via the 16 pads and the shift button.</div>
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<h3 class=" text-left">MORE STREAMLINED</h3>
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<h3 class=" text-left">MORE SIMPLE</h3>
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<div class="col-text text-left">Find new ways to express yourself. Slide your fingers over the Smart Strip to strum and bend sounds, or get creative with FX. Plus, all-new bigger pads let you feel more of your music.</div>
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<h2 class=" ">MASTERING MIKRO IS EASIER THAN EVER</h2>
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Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 64-bit only), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 4GB RAM
Additional Requirements:
USB 2.0 Port, 3 GB free disk space for MASCHINE Essentials (full MASCHINE software plus 1.6 GB MASCHINE Factory Selection), 1 GB free disk space for MASSIVE, MONARK and REAKTOR PRISM
An Internet connection and a graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 or higher are required to download and activate MASCHINE software. Once installed and activated, all products can be used offline.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Supported Interfaces: Stand-alone, VST2 (64-bit), Audio Units (64-bit), AAX 64, ASIO, CoreAudio, and WASAPI.
MASCHINE requires activation: Activate using the serial number on the flyer inside the box.
In case of graphics issues, please install the latest drivers for your GPU. This can be necessary even if Windows reports them as up to date.
MASCHINE Essentials (full Maschine application plus 1.6 GB Factory Selection) provided as a download upon hardware registration Full versions of three popular KOMPLETE plugins, available for download from Native Access after hardware registration: