Yeah, that brings up a good point, I think I read somewhere that Maschine software is single-threaded, so it works optimally as a plug-in in your actual DAW, or in stand-alone mode.
Plug-in to the DAW has some obvious benefits, but one thing nice about standalone is you can drag entire patterns as audio clips into your DAW. That was one of the features of Maschine that originally sold me. Also in this way if the DAW or Maschine becomes unstable, all your editing eggs aren't in one basket and you can restart them independently. Downside is you have to save/edit in two different environments.
I personally would run Virus and as many synth plugins in the main DAW as possible. Use samples on Maschine where possible.
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