
Jemusic wroteI am sure you could access the Maschine sounds using Studio One but then it turns into more of a sound generator then perhaps and Studio One may not integrate as well with it as it does with its own software. But you should really think about it as a drum machine with a sequencer just like the good old MPC's etc. I wouldn't say it comes with a DAW, if at all it IS a DAW. I'm sure for some people it may not work as well. The integration and workflow with S1 is pretty nice for the way I use it. I really am using it as a sound source as you mentioned and for some lightweight sequencing. Personally I don't need the bigger Maschine or Maschine Studio. It would be nice that once I drag patterns into S1 I could easily tweak them in Maschine.but at that point I usually just switch over to the S1 piano roll for tweaks and polish instead I don't tend to use Maschine standalone that much. Can load it's own vsts which is sometimes nice Maschine has some cool chord and scale triggering for instruments with the 2.2 update (just set your song key and get creative) The way S1 handles multi-out instruments makes this really simple and intuitive. I tend to come up with simple percussion patterns in Maschine and drag and drop them into S1. Nice browsing of all NI plugs (I own Komplete as well) and its waaay better for me to load Kontakt libraries through Maschine as opposed to kontakt itself. Best software step sequencer that I've used and it obviously integrates very nicely with the hardware controller Pretty much use Maschine as my goto source for drums and percussion (good hip hop + electronic sounds)

Maschine has some great built in sounds (and some nice expansion packs). I use a Maschine Mikro Mk2 alongside S1v2 as my primary DAW and I really like it. I would imagine anything you might create using Maschine and its own software would be able to be rendered out and dragged into Studio One obviously for the more familiar linear work flow a linear based sequencer provides. I am sure you could access the Maschine sounds using Studio One but then it turns into more of a sound generator then perhaps and Studio One may not integrate as well with it as it does with its own software. But it comes with its own fully deeply integrated DAW so I would be much more inclined actually to not use something like Studio One at all but use Maschine on its own with its own software running on your computer. Jemusic wroteI am quite interested in Maschine Mk 2 myself.
