Playing chords in Maschine standalone using Cthulhu on Mac OS

cthulhu_maschine

So you may remember the video I did showing how to use Cthulhu with Maschine standalone on Windows, well one of the MT Fam members found a standalone VST/AU player for Mac OS that works great! Shout out to Tiko! This video shows how to set it up on Mac so that you can run [...]

Recording chords in Maschine using Cthulhu standalone

cthulhu_with_maschine

What’s up Maschine family! A lot of people have been looking for various ways to use the new chtulhu plugin with Maschine. It’s a great plugin to quickly come up with ideas and inpsirations from the various chord presets and such. But we also know that Maschine’s internal MIDI routing is wack currently, so we [...]

How to setup keyboard splits in Maschine

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So this tutorial is for those that like to setup keyboard splits or keyboard performances, I’m going to show you how to do this directly inside of Maschine. This allows you to use Maschine as an instrument rack for setting up multiple performance sounds or key splits with however many sounds you want to play [...]

Maschine in Logic – using multiple MIDI channels

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We’ve had some questions on using Maschine in Logic specifically with setting it up to use multiple MIDI channels. In this video I go through setting up drum kits as well as individual sounds or pads to be triggered by different MIDI channels. As always, if you have any questions, let us know *access instantly [...]

Maschine sequencing external synths: Dave Smith Mopho

maschine sequencing dave smith mopho

Yo what’s good MT Fam! In this tutorial I just wanted to share the workflow and process I use when sequencing external synths with Maschine. I really dig sync sampling and Maschine actually made me want to get back into hardware synths just because of how easy it is to use them with Maschine. I [...]

Map Maschine Mikro to control Reason transport and drum samplers

Maschine Mikro mapped to Reason

I’ve been messing with Reason again recently, so I decided to map Maschine Mikro to control it’s transport and drum samplers This video shows the process, as well as how to save a default project so that you don’t have to re-map the transport controls every time. Maschine and Mikro are both really good midi [...]

Sequence multiple channels of midi and route multiple audio channels from any DAW into Maschine

multi daw audio channels

Yo what’s good MT fam! I want to show you how to sequence multiple mid and audio channels from your DAW into Maschine. I think you may like this one I have been trying to figure out a way to skip the rewire vst, skip focusrite loopback sampling, and route audio from one app to [...]

MT Quick Tip: See the proper midi channel for each group’s midi batch setting

group midi batch setup channel

When using the “sound midi batch setup” command to make your groups respond to a midi channel, it can be confusing when you go back to check them because that screen only shows the last midi batch setting you’ve made, it doesn’t store the midi channel for each group. This is because this is actually [...]

Using macro controls and midi learn with external controllers

macro midi learn

Many times people ask how to assign controls in Maschine to the knobs on their keyboard or other controllers. There may be many instances when you want to do this. For example, you may want to tweak some settings on an effect you have loaded in group H, while playing some samples from group A….how [...]

How to play chords in Maschine using a MIDI chord generator plugin

midi chord plugins in maschine

*access instantly when you join today! What’s good MT Fam! I’ve received a lot of questions this year since Maschine had plugin hosting, wanting to know how to using midi generation plugins like chord players, etc, inside of Maschine. We know that Maschine doesn’t allow internal MIDI routing, so my answer was always “maschine doesn’t [...]

Using multiple channels of a multi channel plugin in Maschine

kontakt multi channel in maschine

What’s up MT family! I was just messing around experimenting today and came up with a way to use 16 channels of Kontakt in Maschine. It’s a workaround of course, but it works. It started with some of the stuff saintjoe showed in his video about sequencing multiple channels of Reason on a PC via [...]

How to layer plugins internally and play them from your keyboard

layer vst internally and play from keyboard

Yo what’s good MT fam, I wanted to put out a another free tutorial for the Maschine community as a whole on YouTube showing how to layer your plugins in Maschine. Not only that, I show it in a way that gets around the limitations of Pad Link mode which allows you to actually play [...]

Maschine and KONG pt 2: individual pads in Maschine mapped to pads in KONG

maschine pads to kong pads

Yo, this is a follow up to the tutorial I did showing how to properly get set Maschine to trigger kits in KONG. That required the use of keyboard mode and it also didn’t allow you much flexibility over each note like having them on each pad. It was especially confusing when trying to use [...]

Sequence multiple channels from Reason in Maschine via Rewire on PC

reason multi channel pc

After Knock showed how to do multi channel reason sequencing on the mac, I had to figure it out for PC. It’s pretty much the same as I’ve done in the past, except now we have a way to get the sounds back in Maschine via the rewire plugin. This process for me is pretty [...]

Sequencing Maschine in your DAW part 2: setting up midi routing properly in Studio One

sequncing maschine in your daw

This is part two in the Maschine in your Daw series. In this one I get into how to setup the midi routing properly so it can be recorded into your daw instead of maschine This is where it all comes together and where the flexibility happens, because now you can sequence in your favorite [...]

Maschine Tutorial: Sending MIDI out to an external device

maschine sending midi out

This is a free tutorial showing how to send midi out from maschine to your external keyboard, sound module, or other midi devices. Using the midi out module you are able to sequence any other external device that responds to the midi protocol For instant access to all advanced tutorials, the private members forum, free [...]