The sounds of the machinedrum can all too easily be too crystalline, xbase is a bit warmer, but the machinedrum can definately hold it's own in that respect. If you like the xbase programming/sequencing, the machinedrum will make your noodle limp if it ain't or hard if it is. Thumbs up in that department. I often toast my machinedrum sounds just a bit in the studio, but again, live it still sounds DOPE.
I would never get rid of it. I would never get rid of it. I would never get rid of it.
I use it for all types of shit, and the synthesis capabilities on it are to die for. If you could only have 1, this would be it.
F.D.