r/maschine

Hey all,

Can I have saome feedback from users using both a maschine and a drum machine together, please? What made you decide on this workflow? How is this exactly helping you better than just sampling what you need? It it worth to have a paralell sequencer running for you to worry about?

I will use it for mostly write music, not perfrom and already have a maschine which is my main writing station. I "think I want" a drum machine together with it so I could take avantage of things like ACB sounds (with a Roland), or just full analog sounds (Like a Drumbrute) which are things samples cannot really do... but... isn't the drum machine a more performance and not compositional box? Is it worth to pay for this sound ACB variance privilege versus the workflow friction it brings? Or am I wrong and no, it's really better to just offload the drums to a dedicated machine and leave the MK3 just doing everytning else?

Need someone on the same boat telling where they went that can talk me into or out of it.

Thanks. From a confused prospect buyer :)

Not exactly sure what genre it is, but it mixes synthwave, lo-fi and psychedelic influences. Hope you like it!

Piggybacking on the Maschine genre metadata and description file u/MrNoTip created, here's my version of an Excel workbook I put together what shows a cross reference of Maschine, Massive, and Massive X expansions to genre. I wasn't satisfied with the lack of genre categories NI used on their site, so I took genre keywords from all the expansions and expanded the list. The clickable links take you back to the website where you can listen to the demos, but the same descriptions I used are on the site. If you feel it can use some improvement, by all means have at it. Hope you fine it useful. Note, U=I created this before the Leap Expansions were made, so since I have Kontakt 8 but really don't Leap expansions with them (I personally see them like Leap Expansions are to K* like Maschine Expansions are to Maschine, at least the loops in the Leap Expansions can directly be used in Maschine). Anyway, here it is.: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1himbYSVc9c1vOqwF3X8nSqTlHziDMIgT/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109513113176830606284&rtpof=true&sd=true

Probably most 3rd party vsts, I have a plenty fast Mac and the projects aren’t even loaded and I’ll get multiple freezing points in one session.

I get this from presets that are previewing sound and eventual freeze / restart.

is this relative normal or should I find the vsts that may be causing it?

I'm ready to get into finger drumming seriously and want to get a 4x4 pad setup, and the Maschine Mikro MK3 seems to be a favorite (and I'm aware of the NI financial drama, but my assumption is that since it's a class-compliant MIDI device, it should just keep working even if they go away).

My one problem is that it's wide and it needs to fit on my desk (or else it won't get the love it deserves). Since I probably don't care about anything left of the actual pads, could I rotate the whole device 90º to the right so that I'm basically playing from what was intended to be the right side of it? The pads seem to be squares. The layout is a square. Is there anything about the pads that wouldn't work well rotated?

Thanks all!

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It’s bittersweet. I’ve been with NI and Maschine since the MK2. Still remember picking it up at guitar center close to 14 years ago.(the white one 😌)I was pumped as a person who longed for physical hardware growing up watching all my favorite producers use mpcs. I started my production journey like most of on computers in daws and this seemed like the best of both worlds. But I just copped the Mpc one G2. It’ll be my first mpc. I’m excited. Im still thoroughly entrenched in the native instruments ecosystem. With the komplete suites and keyboards but I’ve decided to switch my drum machine/sampler setup.

I can’t imagine how impossibly hard it has to be to run a company like native instruments so I dont want to make it seem like I’m bashing them but we’ve seen how things have been going over the years and with them now being acquired by Inmusic home of Akai it seems like a great time to switch. The mpc native instruments integration was already underway and no doubt it’ll continue even further.

Who knows how much more support machine will get. It already felt neglected before the acquisition so who knows where it’ll end up in the future. I hope they invest in the platform honestly. I’d love to see a turn around. But akai and the mpc one g2 finally peaked my musical curiosity and I’m ready to try something different. Stay curious Maschine fam and go make some slaps.

Just released this track tonight. Made this in Maschine over the past two days. I just freaked one of the soul magic expansions. Let me know what you think!

I have always defended Native Access, but now even I’ve had enough. They’ve completely broken Maschine with updates. I haven’t used it for a while, just kept everything up to date. Today I wanted to make music, but I can no longer load Expansion Kits.
Maschine randomly can’t find samples anymore. It’s searching in completely nonsensical file paths, mostly Windows paths, even though I’m on a Mac. In Native Access everything is correct.

I contacted support and they told me I need to properly relocate everything in Native Access. But everything is already correct there, I installed the expansions through it. I told this to them and don’t get an answer anymore.
Now I’ve spent hours manually reassigning samples in Maschine one by one… and after a restart it all starts over again. I’m so fed up with this.
I can’t browse kits anymore.

Windows file paths!!! Can’t find sample xy in C:… or in E:… or whatever. Come on, NI!

Why can’t I rebuild the data bank anymore. Delete the .plist and application support doesn’t have an effect anymore.

Hi all, running 2x Maschine+ in a MIDI sync setup and hitting a problem.

I’ve got both units playing full stem-based projects. Maschine 1 is the master sending MIDI clock to Maschine 2 so everything stays in tempo.

Issue: when I enable sync, not only tempo is linked but also transport (play/stop). So when I hit play/stop on the master, the second Maschine follows too.

What I want:

MIDI clock sync only (tempo locked)
Independent play/stop on each Maschine+
So I can manually trigger Track B while Track A keeps running
Is there any way to disable transport sync on Maschine+ while keeping clock sync, or is this just not possible and should I buy a Nome 2 (or similar)?

The reason I need this is because I have some very long audio plugins with stems that have very long slow modulation.

Thanks in advance!

Not sure what I did, but I can't get out of scene mode on my maschine plus. Every time I try and press pattern, I get taken back to scene mode. Anyone got a fix?

Edit: NVM I figured it out. Basically, I am in toggle mode. To turn that off and stay on the page that I click. I have to click the mode and then click the first white button (on the far left side). Silly mistake and easy fix.