Government debt and expenditure remain stubbornly high, and Italy has been repeatedly rapped on the knuckles by Brussels for failing to keep within the parameters of the Euro stability pact.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Berlusconi: Out but not down

The original Maschine controller allows more direct hardware access to oft-used parameters and two separate LCD screens to keep the user tied into the software without glancing at it--the 12.6 x 11.6-inch footprint has plenty of space to keep the buttons and knobs intuitive without much fuss.

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