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The English word machine comes through Middle French from Latin machina, which in turn derives from the Greek ( Doric μαχανά makhana, Ionic μηχανή mekhane 'contrivance, machine, engine', a derivation from μῆχος mekhos 'means, expedient, remedy' ). Examples include: a wide range of vehicles, such as automobiles, boats and airplanes appliances in the home and office, including computers, building air handling and water handling systems as well as farm machinery, machine tools and factory automation systems and robots.
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Modern machines are complex systems that consist of structural elements, mechanisms and control components and include interfaces for convenient use. Renaissance natural philosophers identified six simple machines which were the elementary devices that put a load into motion, and calculated the ratio of output force to input force, known today as mechanical advantage. They can also include computers and sensors that monitor performance and plan movement, often called mechanical systems. Machines can be driven by animals and people, by natural forces such as wind and water, and by chemical, thermal, or electrical power, and include a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement. It may represent human-made or naturally occurring device molecular machine that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. And this is happening in Ableton, Reason, and in the standalone Maschine application.A machine is any physical system with ordered structural and functional properties. But this is all 100% owned, above board, same for my DAWs. I might add that I've never pirated any plugins, only because I can see how that might complicate how Maschine is reading things. Is there any way to purge the lists in Maschine of any plugins and instruments that I don't have installed on my computer? I'm almost certain that it's user error on my part but it's just extra hurdles to make music with this awesome device.
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I guess I could just sort by Vendor every time, but that seems like an unelegant solution. This is also happening in the FX section - there's several dozen Waves plugins being read by Maschine, but none of those plugins are on my computer anymore. The Waves were at one point, but Battery for example never was. There's nothing differentiating them from the products I do own - Massive, Helios Ray, Electric Vice, Maschine Factory Library, etc - so sorting by Types or Characters means that 8/10 patches give me a load error because they're from Battery or Komplete or Waves, none of which are on my computer. There's also a handful of old Waves VSTs that I've long since uninstalled - Bass Slapper, Bass Fingers, Electric88, Clavinet, EGrand80, Electric200, Grand Rhap, Mark 1 all show up.
#A MASCHINE LICENSE#
Battery and Komplete Elements are two examples of instruments that show up under All Instruments, but I don't have a license for those and so have never installed them. Maschine tries to load plug-ins I don't have installed or have a license for. Apologies if this is one of those things that has been discussed extensively, or should be in a different section - I'm fairly new to the community. I've had Maschine 2 for a couple years now and something has really been holding me back, so I'm hoping to get some perspective here. I've been a musician for a couple decades and dabble with beatmaking.