I feel you on the pattern and the scenes. At first it was too much to get use to but what I do it like is it basically makes you put the beat into song mode when you make it. At least the 1st 16-24 bars. A lot of times in the MPC I would never put all 6 of these sequences in song mode, then I come back to the beat weeks later and forget (my memory is getting REALLY bad) how the song went. Since I've been on the maschine for the past 6 months I'm kinda used to it now tho.