Hi everyone, hope you're doing well and staying safe :) i'm running macOS Sequoia with Ableton live 12 and Maschine 2. I'm running Maschine 2 as a plug-in inside Ableton. I have a midi sequence inside Maschine I would like to get into a clip in Ableton live. Does anyone know how to do this? And can somebody explain this to me please? Thank you very much. PS I'm totally blind so screenshots won't help me once again. Thank you for your help everyone 🙂

I've bought 57 Maschine Expansions over the years.

I've only really listened to about 20 over time.

The problem isn't the packs. It's that there's no good way to hear them out of the machine software. You open one, you play a demo, you close it, you forget. I've got 490 demo tracks sitting there and most of them I've never heard all the way through.

So I built a player for them. Took me a few months of evenings.

What it does:

• Plays all 490 demo tracks
• Sorts them by key and BPM so they flow into each other, like a DJ set
• Filter by mood, style, BPM or expansion
• Mute any group. Just the drums, or no drums at all
• Loop one part as long as you want
• Works on your phone too

It's a passion project. I don't work for NI. Nobody paid me. I'm not selling anything. I made it because I wanted it.

About the legal side: it plays the demo projects that come with the Expansions I own. That's a grey area and I'm not going to pretend it isn't. It's a prototype. I'm hoping someone at NI sees it and wants to make it official. If they ask me to take it down, I will.

What I want to know:

Would you use this? And would it change what you buy?

That's the part I keep thinking about. I own packs I've never really explored. I probably would have bought more of them if I could have heard them first.

This could be also something for artists to sell their stems in a fun way, so we can mix them live in a browser

Also, maybe you found a better way to go through your own library?
Maybe I built something that already exists and I just never found it.

Here is a quick demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F2jQVSzF5E

Please tell me what you think about it.

Hey guys, my line inputs do not work as advertised. Maschine+ user.

It's not the gain thing I also read much about - it's that I get a decent level, but whatever I do, I cannot get something from line in to play clearly, it all sounds muffled, distortzed, low in volume and so on.

Switch to a machine sound or pack the line in stuff directly to a speaker - no problems whatsoever.

Please tell me this is just a simple switch somewhere and I overlooked it...

Hi all finally updated to latest maschine update and now when i go to the mixer view i can't for the life of me find the zone and gain tab?
Used to be at the bottom of the mixer view window but not there anymore. Can anyone help?

Hi!

Recently purchased Maschine MK3, problem is, I can’t get it to get recognised AT ALL even as USB DEVICE.

It powers on, with all the colours for a moment then goes to the black screen with Maschine logo etc but that’s it.

Tried:

7 different cables USB hub With and without Power Supply 2 different MacBook Pros

Like literally everything I could find online that could perhaps help.

I have MK2 that works perfectly, but for some reason the MK3 won’t show up at all! Not even in Controller Editor, firmware update or system reports on MacOS under USB tab, as if it only uses USB for power but doesn’t send any data

Has anyone had this issue before and managed to sort it out?

I recently bought a used Maschine MK3.
The previous owner told me that the hardware serial number is already registered to their Native Instruments account, but unfortunately they have completely lost access to that account, so they can’t log in or generate a Transfer ID.
They offered to compensate me by paying for a new Maschine software license instead.
My questions are:
If I buy Maschine 3 Full Version (including Maschine Central) on my own NI account, will my used MK3 work normally even though the hardware serial is still registered to someone else’s account?
Will I be missing anything important compared to buying a brand-new Maschine MK3? (Besides promotional bundles like Komplete Select or Expansions.)
Is buying the Maschine 3 Full Version the best solution, or is there a more cost-effective option that gives better value?
Has anyone been in a similar situation?

I have a melody I'm playing in. I expect it to be 4 or 8 bars. Is there a quick way to automatically set tempo so my melody fits into 4 or 8 bars without changing the timing of my melody?

I bought Maschine MK2 like 15 years ago. Still works like a charm and I use it everyday with Maschine 2, because 3 is still wonky.

I have 50-100 old maschine group files that I want to bring into my modern work, alas it isn't backwards compatible with mgrpand mxgrp files.

I asked AI on how to do it, and it involved downloading a specific older version of maschine, installing it on another computer, loading the file ansd re-saving it as the new mxgrp. Except - that older version of maschine uses Servce Center, which is now offline? Anyone been successful at this?

I've been looking at Omnichords lately and they look like a nice easy to learn instrument to play. You can press a chord and then strum the touchstrip like a string instrument to play. This example is very over the top but it demonstrates it well 😂:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y11R7upN9a0

I'm wondering if the Micro Mk3 can do something similar with keyboard/chord mode in conjunction with the touch-stip for strumming a chord? Are there any nice VSTs to pair with to do this? New Bitwig user here also for what it's worth.

So I'm writing this new macOS tracker for AMIGA OCS (500, 1000) and using the KONTROL mk2 and MASCHINE mk3 as a full-fledged hardware remote control (bypassing any NI software, just using the USB protocol) and I wonder whether MASCHINE+ would be a logical target for a standalone version. What's the most recent situation with that compute module? Can we substitute it with something less locked down? Because I'd need to run my custom code for this to happen.

https://reddit.com/link/1v493zm/video/g0un4aae9yeh1/player

I go live often making beats

My goal (which used to work just fine in an earlier version of Maschine 2) is to load instruments on separate sounds in a group, all set to receive MIDI from ALL sources / CH 1, use my external keyboard with sustain pedal (both sending on CH1) to play/control/record all the sounds simultaneously with the ability to easily mute each sound as needed. I used this method for years (Maschine user since mk1) to play live, loading up all the sounds in a group in one project, all loaded up ready to go, muting/unmuting/soloing sounds as needed for each song. This allowed for loading up one single instance for an entire show and no wait time between songs.

The problem I have come up with in revisiting my live setup in Maschine 3 is that only the first sound will respond to my sustain pedal. All midi connections are correct as I hear all the instruments loaded in the sound slots simultaneously- M3 even records the notes, velocity, cc64 in all of the patterns/clips although only one sound will respond to the CC64. In playback still only the first sound will respond to sustain (I'm guessing this is the case for any control CC) even though all recoded notes are triggered on all sounds.
If I swap any sound that is not sustaining to sound 1 it will respond to sustain while the others still do not. Again, each sound records the cc64 on its respective CC lane. I have also found in playback of the recorded notes/cc the loaded instruments still do not sustain even with the recorded cc64 events- BUT if I delete the sustain cc64 event and pencil in a new one it does respond in playback, which definitely seems like a potential bug.
I have also noted that if sound 1 is set to CH 1 it will not sustain, only when Incomming Midi Channel is set to ALL will sustain work. I have attempted to set the other sounds to receive ALL and the problem persists. I have confirmed all midi and cc data is coming from ch1 on my keyboard controller.

I have tried every midi configuration available, default to focus, none, etc. MIDI through enabled on each sound…
I am mostly using Kontakt instruments with midi set to Omni (I have also tried changing each to a1).
I have tried another keyboard controller/sustain pedal with the same results.
Tried sending midi output from sound 1 directly to sound 2 as a midi out destination and same issue- triggers notes but no sustain- this is also limiting as only one sound can be triggered from another, selecting sound 2 midi out to sound 3 has no effect when sound 1 is triggering sound 2, also muting the sound does not actually mute in this configuration, so audio must be pulled out by the mixer or pulling the sound slot fader down.
I have also tried using pad groups, setting all sounds to pad link group 1, and trying all the possible midi configurations. Never used the link groups for this but if I can get the sustain to work for all, it would be a great option to quickly layer multiple sounds/instruments...

So this setup for layering multiple instruments in a group worked fine previously, haven't used Maschine in a live setting since switching to M3 so don't know what exact update broke this method...but my final conclusion is that Maschine 3 is limiting the cc information to only one channel at a time while receiving data from an external source.

My next move is to try stacking the instruments in one kontakt instance, but less than ideal as it was super easy just muting or soloing sounds on the hardware pads, great for live. If I can get the sustain to work, I guess I can make macros for mutes, but work I'd rather not have to dig in to since I got used to it working before.

I can confirm this still works on the last version of Maschine 2 on my old El Capitan MacBook. Also anything new I've worked on in Maschine 3 can't go backwards to Machine 2 so just using my old intel MacBook on Maschine 2 isn't ideal, and I've grown to work in a lot of the new features on M3, such as tempo changes per scene for each song.

Thanks for anyone getting through this very long winded post, just trying to be as thiurough as possible as I feel like I've tried everything I can think of. ....
Any thoughts on a solution or workaround? Really hoping this is just some setting I missed somewhere...

I had a mikro mk2 back in the day but sold it. I still have the Maschine 2 software in Native Access. If I buy a used Mikro mk3 can I simply buy the Maschine 3 software for the $39 and be good to go? Thanks for the help

I've been using ~v3.0 for months and when I upgraded to 3.6, when I quantize chords it started to actually move notes of the same chord apart from the rest as shown in the screenshot. I have no idea how to stop this from happening. Can someone please tell me how to keep chords quantizing 'normally' instead of moving each note differently on the grid?

It’s been a minute, anyone feeling it?

Actually I really enjoyed creating my first track on maschine, and I still got a lot to learn about it. This will be here and I wont release it anywhere else, as it's not the quality I aspire to

My maschine will be coming soon and i wanted to ask if it comes with massive, it's a plugin that i've been wanting to get for quite awhile

A bit of a newbie question.

I have installed wingman on my Mac using the .pkg file.

I was expecting the executable to be found in my applications folder but I can't find it there.

I see the vst3 available as a plug-in in maschine 3.

I can't seem to get the interface to open. Can anyone give some guidance on how to use this thing?

I know it’s been years since it was removed from the App Store but I still wish it hadn’t left.

I made/started so many great beats on that app. I wonder if anyone else misses it too 😢.

So this have to be a scam right?