Push is an instrument that puts everything you need to make music in one place—at your fingertips.
Making music is hard. To stay in the flow, you need to be able to capture your ideas quickly, and you need technology to stay out of the way. Computers make it possible for one person to create whole worlds of sound. But instruments are where inspiration comes from. Push gives you the best of everything. It’s a powerful, expressive instrument that gives you hands-on control of an unlimited palette of sounds, without needing to look at a computer.
...Maschine and taken parts of them for Push 2. Probably a good move. Glad I didn't take the plunge on Push 1, I very nearly bought one on Ebay today. €799 kind of puts it into a different bracket though, it would want to be quite an upgrade unless that includes Live 9.5
My humble setup and even humbler studio buddy - he's no use whatsoever: IMac; Ableton Push 1; NI Maschine; Presonus Faderport; KRK VXT6; iPad running iPolysix; SM Pro Nano Patch +; Whiteboard for writing down patches I need to remember: Roland JU-06, JP-08, JX-03; DSI Prophet 6; Volca Beats, Bass, Keys; Strymon Dig, Bluesky; Zoom MS-70CDR;...
...course Roland will release something new at some point. But they are not Elektron with slightly enhanced mk2 versions, or Push 1,2 3, so I wouldn't expect a MC-707 mk2 any time soon (or ever). Wether they will move towards better integration of hardware and software, like many do these days (Ableton, NI, even...