So, I’ve been learning and playing with Maschine from Native Instruments…I must say it’s awesome.
I’m currently using the beta update so as soon as the full update is released I’ll give you my review.
But I’m still going to show you little tips, tricks, and some of the workflow.
In this video I just want to show you how easy it is to import your samples for use in maschine.
When you do it this way, you can browse through your own sounds right from the hardware controller, just like internal native instrument sounds.
This is important for me, as I use maschine without having the monitor on or the software is minimized. I do EVERYTHING from the controller.
Maschine is dope, straight up, probably my favorite released product so far this year. Serious.
What do you think?
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ok my question is:
i just recently purchased a maschine i would like to know how to hook up my turntable to it so i can start making my own samples. specific details please.
thanks.
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saintjoe Reply:
February 28th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Hook your turntable up to your computer soundcard and sample it in maschine. That’s about as specific as it gets, you don’t need to hook up anything to the actual maschine controller, everything is handled by the software. As long as your sound input is set as the input in Maschine, you can sample from it.
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edd Reply:
February 28th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
are their any settings for the program i would need to set it to in order for the program to read it?
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saintjoe Reply:
February 28th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
just set the input to your soundcard input, it’s in the manual if you don’t know how to do it. It’s pretty easy though, just go into the settings and set the input of Maschine to your soundcard so it can’t capture audio from it.
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edd Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 2:52 am
alright cool. ill give it a try.
thanks a lot for your help
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saintjoe Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 5:22 am
no problem, let me know how it goes
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@Saintjoe your video helped me make up my mind about Maschine.. I was sold when I watched it. I am waiting for it to arrive at GC from another location…I have gone through the manual.
Now I’m just thinking through a few things which will be based on your template. This may help if I can get it all working..lol I’m gonna just type in a few things I’ve been coming up with.
Okay I attempting to sync it all through Reaper using Maschine like you do. I want Motif Rack, Micron,Reaper vsts, and of course Maschine sounds, with Edirol Midi Keyboard controller (only for playing melodies). I am sure I can think that through,but open to suggestions on how to midi it all together:-)
I’m figuring out a work around for editing,play sample slices til end( a must have for me), timestretching etc. samples. In your template I’m gonna try using Fl Studio Slicex and control from Maschine. So I will insert Flstudio as a vst in one of the Reaper Vst slots in the template….
Can’t wait to see if I can figure out some decent way to make a song..looks like the suggestion of putting your instruments in single groups using more than one instance of Maschine may do the trick. Renaming each group something like GrpKick, Grpsnare, etc so you’ll keep in mind that its a group item not a sound..
I am excited, because the possibilities seem endless actually..inside Reaper after your set up..Im gonna rewire Reason to use its sounds also…wow…and just record Reason using Reaper…
Last, for Mpc users who love the song mode,still have the mpc and bought Maschine. You could probably midi into Mpc and just sequence everything there? While using all the functions of Maschine.. filters, sounds etc? < just thinking out loud on that one
..anywhos Thanks again Saintjoe NI should write you a commission check!
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saintjoe Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Hahahahaha! Whoa!
You can do pretty much all of what you’ve said I would imagine, I don’t have all those different applications to try, but if it can receive midi, you can sequence it!
Song mode isn’t bad at all actually once you understand it. As far as oneshot samples, or playing samples until the end, you can do that in maschine with no problem, just set it to oneshot
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Thanks for fast response! Ugg at GC who hasn’t gotten it delivered for me yet..lol I would should have driven the miles and purchased it..boo GC 4 that
If I can pull myself away from your site
I can probably map out the connects..I am hoping I can use fastlane midi interface or something to midi thru all external hardware into Maschine, before I decide what Im gonna ebay. My thing is, Im a little confused at how I can have Maschine and a keyboard controller work all the other stuff, using Maschine as main sequencer? I’m much like you.. a gear & music stuff junkie!, but shucks if I don’t need it Im sellin it..
With the sample function, I meant being able to have your samples chopped and mapped across pads/keys..then being able to select any slice/chop and play from that point through to the end of entire sample if needed. it gives a different feel to sampling making the sample a like an instrument…
Thanks for the follow as well ..tweet tweet
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saintjoe Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Hahahaha, lol.
well if you set maschine to use your midi controller as the input you’ll be good. It wills end midi to maschine and anything you have maschine sequencing.
hook up whatever you want to your midi output and you’re good to go.
You’ll set a sound/pad to midi out instead of internal sampler, and chose the midi channel 1-16
whatever is set to listen on that channel will be trigged by maschine
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Perfect idea…I think I got it now. I will bookmark this so when I finally get my hands on my paid 4 Maschine
it will all click…(GC just called and said tomorrow)..guess its cool because your videos and post really helped me understand this baby.
I will surely make a write up about your site, and add links etc when I get back to working with my blog.. http://www.mstrismusic.com ..
Thanks much.. I’ll return often..
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saintjoe Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
no doubt!!!
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nice tutorial…been in a tech. slump gettin back on track tho, try to stay more connected in the futureand thanks 4 all the great resources from both N.I., and also from your own works… 4real!
Mark(hip812)
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saintjoe Reply:
April 24th, 2010 at 9:00 am
@Mark Bennett, No doubt man, glad you find the stuff I post useful! Thanks
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Hi Joe
Thats for that video man! I really need to start organizing my samples into Maschine
Peace
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saintjoe Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
@everythingbutthegirl, also don’t forget about the favorites option. I’ve started using this more to put folders I use a lot under the disk tab without having to import. I’m pretty much leaving the imported samples to the stuff I use most often.
I use the favorites for stuff I don’t mind browsing to with my mouse.
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Jones Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
@saintjoe,
Samples and sounds are not truly imported into Maschine. Actually an entry in the Maschine database is created that tags your sounds/loops/samples location and categories. The sounds themselves are not moved/copied etc. into Maschine. The point is, taking the extra effort to go through tagging and import will make it much easier to browse the sounds on your hard drive no matter where they exist.
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saintjoe Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
@Jones, yes I think everyone who has maschine knows it doesn’t actually move your samples, that would be insane. That said, I don’t feel the need to tag/import everything, and use a combination of tagging plus the favorite folder option.
I like to tag my personal kits, and my standard drum libraries, etc. For larger dvds and collections I just use the favorites tab and open them from the software.
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Hi,
I’m livin in Togo, Africa and the Internet is too bad down here/ I’ve been lookin for a way to import samples in my Maschine but I can not play your video down here. Could you send me the video in my email or write it down for me, it would help me a lot.
Thanks,
Zebee
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saintjoe Reply:
May 6th, 2010 at 9:08 am
@Zebee, no problem, just use the disk tab in Maschine, find the sounds you want, and hit the import button at the bottom of the browser, it will let you select tags/categories or make your own to organize your library.
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joe man i know i already asked u this but i am new so bear with me brother and thank god for ppl like you on the net helping ppl out like this man much appreciated..ok so last question i asked you was scene mode on maschine..you said thas how you built up songs..i do not understand it one bit..the way i did it (and when u read this ur gonna be like god damn hes doing it the hard way) was settin every group to 64 bars..changing up the pattern for verse 1, chorus, verse 2..i know scene mode must make this easier please tell me exactly how to do it..Secondly..how do i controll the volume of 1 specific sound..Say i want my snare to be a little softer than what it is..each time i try this it makes EVERYTHING softer..or if i want to make a sample louder without making everything else louder..Thanks a bunch man and keep doing your thing boy!
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saintjoe Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
@nick, whatup yo! Aight first, scenes, think of each scene as the part of your song. So you have one scene for your intro, one for verse,one for chorus, etc.
In these scenes you put your patterns, each group can have however many patterns you need, I usually have about 2 or 3 for changeups.
If you want a 16 bar verse, you can make one of your groups have a 16 bar pattern, either play the whole 16, or start with 4, then double it twice. Everything else will play for 16 bars no matter how short they are, since the longest pattern is 16 bars.
Do the same for your chorus and other parts, only put in each scene what you want for that part and make one of the patterns as long as you want the scene to play.
For volume, hold the pad of the sound, and turn the volume knob, it will turn it down for you.
Make sure you have all the updates.
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saintjoe your a lifesaver man!..1 more question..everyone i talk to comparing maschine to their mpc says the maschine is a mpc killer except in the sampling department..my buddy was saying on his 200xl you can cut out a snare if a sample, change the pitch of the vocals without changing up tempo? ive never had an mpc so i dont know if this is right but can maschine do all the sampling capabilities that the mpc can do?
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saintjoe Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
@nick, the ONLY thing I can think of, from my mpc that isn’t on Maschine that many are complaining about is timestretch. The mpc has timestretch where you can change the pitch without changing length or change the speed without changing the pitch, etc.
I find the sampling to be much faster on Maschine, especially when it comes to chopping, copying, editing samples.
I just do it old school and use the pitch in conjunction with the slicing to change tempo/speed if I need to.
Another thing the mpc has is a very quick way of layering sounds on the pads and still being able to edit/tweak each layer.
The thing I probably miss the most from my mpc is the sequencing, not so much the feel, but the way you can put together songs and stuff, it’s very easy to string patterns together and have access to multiple tracks.
The way it is in Maschine, we basically have 8 groups, and since you can only have 1 pattern per group in a scene, it can get a lil cramped.
But I still like it, it’s a tool like anything else. If you feel comfortable with Maschine, then don’t worry about anything else lol. The mpc isn’t a magic box like some make it, it’s just a tool like anything else, it’s great at what it does. Now, when they come out with one that does what the original does plus what maschine can do, on the computer…then we may have something to checkout!
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Hey i bought the maschine about a month ago but i cant get anything imported, someone told me the file as to be a WAV file but i tried that but it still doesnt work, can you help me?
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saintjoe Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
@Dollakid, I need more info, what exactly are you doing and what happens. It’s pretty straight forward to use external files in Maschine, you can just browse to them on the “disk” tab and drag them to the sound slots. Or you can import them and tag them so you can find them in your Maschine library.
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