This Maschine tutuorial shows you how to drag and drop audio from Maschine into Ableton Live and how to make sure your loops play correctly. If you don’t do it right, your loops will be all jacked up when you play them back in Live.
This is really a nice workflow, especially for laying out the song structure as Live has a very flexible song arranger. So…until we get an updated arranger in Maschine, many may find this a perfect fit!
If you got questions let me know
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Awww Man Dawg .. that's what I needed to start learning Ableton. … this worked beautifully
Yeah fam, I remember you asked about it so I wanted to show ya, I know this confuses a lot of people. Actually has me thinking of using ableton again strictly as a song arranger.
Nice one Joe! are you using maschine as standalone in the video??
Yessir, standalone is my preferred method of working.
do u know if u can export files (wav) that will play as loops in Traktor?
If traktor reads wavs then yes, you can just drag the files to your desktop or to your folder of choice or directly into Tracktor if it supports it.
Loop Optimize will also reder a reverb tail (or delay) onto the beginning of the loop. That way you wont get a dry section at the beginning of each loop.
There are occasions when you may not want the tail at the beginning of the loop i.e first paly of a repeating loop or on a one shot. In this case it is better to leave loop optimize off and stretch manually in the DAW.
I always make a copy with a tail rendered at the beginning and one rendered without the tail folded over.
right, good point. For some reason Ableton doesn’t like it unless you have it on, but you’re right about the tail on the beginning.
This works a treat, though when you drag and drop it does not seem to pull across the effects you have put on the sound, group or master properly.
I had maximiser and distortion on but it did not really seem to transpose the same….would that be right?
it should pull your fx as well, you also have the option of just using the export menu to export your loops then pull those into Live.
this is really cool but how do you get both programs to emit sound since aiso driver only lets you use one program at a time
My audio card is multi client I am not using asio4all
Gonna try this tonight! Yes I slept on this tut lol
yeah brotha lol
Hey SJ I can’t drag. You right click that right blue icon? Nothing happens here. I wanted to drag a editted sample into live to timestretch and get it back into maschine
It’s a left click, and you have to have midi data in there to drag it, put a midi note on the first beat of the sample you want to drag and it should work for ya!
both questions answered! now my new question…i am using asio4all, i know i need a soundcard, i just got fired…can you send me a sc…hahaha, just kidding joe. for real tho any suggestions on a good soundcard?
Good news fam.
As for soundcards, I like focusrite personally, they have a 2i2 or an 8i6 for usb connectivity. If you’re on a mac they have firewire ones too, the saffire pro 14 is good