I'm not a musician, only an enabler for my musically inclined children, and among the issues that I'm fighting as I flesh out the studio are to avoid (a) paying for redundancy, and (b) getting immersed in 'sample madness'.
I view the Push as a superset of
an APC40 (albeit without sliders); a pad controller/drum machine cu
m control surface. On the upside I like the combined functionality as it requires less real estate and keeps keeps everything close at hand. The 'problem' with the Push is that (insofar as I'm aware) it has virtually no samples, being wholly dependent on the Ableton application for sounds.
The reason I don't really see this as a problem is that with the Push I'm avoiding 'sample madness'. Sample madness is that marketing precept that you need 500 different drum kits, 185 different types of acoustic piano sounds, etc., available. One of the glaring 'features' of
the Maschine is it's massive library. I appreciate why manufactures provide such functionality, but I don't want to pay for it... 10 different drum kits are plenty as far as I'm concerned.