Hands on ControlThe amount of hands on control provided by Native instruments Maschine MK2 allows for flawless interaction with all of its features. With the ability to sample, sequence, perform and effect your sounds, you’re a transported away from the creativity sapping mouse clicking that can kill so many musical vibes. With Twin screens you can dial into your samples or sounds and edit them on the fly as well as getting visual feedback for the many studio-quality effects. Performing live is a pleasure with the tactile and velocity sensitive pads, visual guidance of what sounds you have behind each pad is brought to alive by the vividly colourful and fully assignable back-lit pads.The 47 buttons are clearly presented to make navigation quick and easy, which when coupled with the central push encoder and eight rotary controls really make for a rapid workflow and effortless live performances. The durable build quality instils a sense of confidence that you can rely on this hardware for all of your gigs or travelling between studios. The advantage of automatically mapping software cuts out the headache of routing and laborious hours of setting up. One final and very welcome addition to this second generation of maschine is the ability to customise you hardware, with NI making various colours of faceplates and encoder knobs so you can make your groovebox as individual as your music.