Owners of… well, any modern computer, will be delighted to learn that Maschine is now geared up to support all the many cores of their CPU(s). The performance boost this delivers is sizeable, even on lower-end systems.

For power users, Maschine has always been rather hampered by the puzzling limits applied to its core functional architecture - but no more! Where previously you could only have eight Groups in a project, now you can have as many as you like; where once 64 Scenes was the maximum on offer, now there’s no cap; and if that upper limit of four plugins per Group and three per Sound has you feeling claustrophobic in Maschine 1.8, the new ceiling of ‘as many as your Mac or PC can handle’ will give you plenty of room to breathe.