I don’t know how the Play series works on MPCs.
On the M+ it is a kontakt instrument, so there is initially kontakt Player or eight that load (not known for being fast at the opening even on a Mac M4 - and it’s a scandal 
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Then you have the whole instrument that charges from the SD card and reads from the SD card, “Empire break” for example it’s more than 3 GB that loads on a single pad…
All Serieplay, include FX, and sometimes sequencers etc., the Play series is not a series sweetened by something else. It’s a big kontakt instrument with samples and sequences in it and fx on board…
It takes 48% of the CPU… for this one. …
After my last test, I didn’t keep the Serieplay in m+, I’m already not a fan of expansions, which are sample packs with Maschine effects and Maschine synth presets
(I think the Play series on MPC has been transformed into a simple expansion of the same kind, but I’m not sure.)
Given that the Play series is fixed on a single pad and must be played with the keyboard mode, so very little modifiable, like an independent standard sound, it seems a little useless to me to adapt this kind of thing on M+…
But well, we don’t redo N.I
(And it must be said, their expansions are great to simply play with your fingers, when you bother, it’s great, otherwise it’s much too produced to be already used, while there’s everything you need to create your own sound but it’s very educational, because you find routing and macro d fx techniques)
I always have trouble with this pre-built sound pack philosophy and here relatively greedy in processor…
Given that the machine is already filled with thousands of samples, drum synthesizers, synthesizers and now even more fx, that it is a really very efficient sampler we can largely do without. ;).
I don’t think it’s the Ram race or processors that will bring the real improvements expected for the M+.
I remind you that instruments like the Ot have a ridiculously small processor compared to M+. And yet it is a pearl to make music.
I’m thinking more about improvements on
The sequencer, including probabilities, Euclidean and an improvement in p- locks *
[ *who have the merit of being there and already allow follies- ex:
-Open an FM8 preset
-Put steps everywhere on 16 steps for example
-P lock on the parameters of the synth, and on the fx behind etc…
-You have a very electronlike sequence
This sequence in this example is unfortunately frozen because there is no probability (with the fct morph bcp less ) but this defect is in fact also a quality because there is no size limit for the sequence/pattern (here we double, quadruple the page and modify the desired step …)
Yes there may be a little more work, but you can record a long piano improvisation without being cut at the 128th (256) step compared to an Elektron for example…]
The improvement of the personalization of control macros, cc midi etc from the M+
USB audio…
This seems to me to be possible without hardware improvement and would be more than enough for me.
The power of Maschine is in the simplicity of its workflow and in the multiple possible approaches, I have already described a lot of use ancillary to a standard groove box for example:
Sequenced fx box
Drone box with the trick of the sustain pedal (without pressing play)
Supersynth with sequence by pressing only one key like a falcon of uvi or omnisphere or Avenger. (without pressing play)
Multi sample of a single element (a snare with a lot of velocity layer for example) to then make a very lively kit.
Creation of super fingerdrum kit
Multisample of a rather powerful instrument
If we add that it is a very fast groove box in the implementation of a kit, a pattern, a sequence and then a scene, it is ultra fast to set up ideas.
Fx Master box (and even more today with the new fx)
The looper is descent and is not greedy when you stay in re-pitch mode, the timestrech mode works great too but cpu+
The quality of the FX and M+ synths (I can’t judge with the new effects and instruments from the AIR collection of the MPC 3 for example even if it wouldn’t come to me to use them on my computer - there are already a lot of first-rate vst already-however a Prism, Fm8, Monark always serve me on the computer.)
I love the responsiveness to the speed of Prism and Fm8 the percussions created with are beautiful, organic and pleasant to play.
Etc
Honestly, M+ is a great MPC in terms of workflow, that is to say that for the MPC worshipers of the 90s 2000s (like me) It would have been a dream to have this machine at the time because everything is streamlined for this use.
I sample I fingerdrum and I play with the arrangement.
Compared to the current MPC, the real weakness of M+ is more on the hardware, the connectors, the battery, the hp, the microphone! And maybe now the pads are above the M+ (on the MPCe pads I’m waiting to see the fingerdrummers in direct performance)!
BUT I find a lot of heaviness in the implementation of all this power.
I had the MPC live and frankly this one was very headache compared to M+.
Of course I wasn’t on the latest version 3.
However, one last element reminds me that in a live situation, I would still prefer to play with my arrangements on M+ (which has eight knobs, a touch band, quick scene access, perform fx, macros, state morphs)
It’s fun to be able to have fun with your arrangement, patterns etc. and very fast access.
Where, this is my opinion, the new mpc with a touch screen (a little capricious) and four knob difficult to contextualize to manage volumes, Pans, fx sends, parameters of a synthesizer. I see myself less comfortable with a guitar in hand and a touch screen to play Live.
I think as it is on the M+, if the materials are perennial, that it is a box made to last over time and will remain useful whatever they come out after.
Hoping that we can one day freeze the machine without the obligation to access the Internet.
An MK2 with even more Serieplay to fill the processor and ram in 3 Pads?
Obviously a new M+ on battery with microphone speaker, that would be great, but as it is it is already phenomenal to have this type of tools today to make music…
This is my reflection on the subject, perhaps difficult to read and long, I had to translate in addition…
It’s true that I like my M+