One of the most common things I hear from people when it comes to their Maschine kits and samples, is how do you save them so you can move them between machines or share them with people. This was a huge plus for the mpc pgm format, you could easily create and share kits, companies could easily provide kits in a common, “auto loading” format, it’s a good thing all around.
NI has done something similar with battery and kontakt, they are now very common formats, just like logic exs or reason nnxt. Unlike battery or kontakt, maschine doesn’t have a way to save the kit with it’s sounds, there is no export with samples or ability to save monolith files screen or function.
If there was, we’d have more third party kits in maschine format, people could move quickly between laptop, desktop, friends house, mac, and pc, without getting that crazy “samples not found” screen.
Even if you’re like me and you move samples around on your computer, this can help.
Basically this is a free video I wanted to share with Maschine users worldwide through YouTube in hopes that people see there is an easier way than saving the project with samples or trying to export your database just so you can move kits between maschines.
I hope this helps and also hope is sparks some third party sound developers to start providing kits in Maschine group format.
I also plan to go through all the bonus kits that MT members can download, turning them into maschine group files so that they auto load for ya! So make sure to check your dashboard!
Definitely spread the word about this method, it’s something that can benefit the maschine community as a whole.
Nice, Very essential video.
No doubt fam, thanks for watching, definitely hope it helps the maschine community, get more support for the format, etc. Plus it just makes it easier to move samples and kits around lol.
Another informative video man. Thanks,
NI should kiss ur but, ur doing hella lot for the community. No lie.
Ha, I don’t think it’s that serious, without them we wouldn’t have this dope Maschine, just glad they did it man, I love this thing.
haha yeah, but you get the point hehe 🙂
I just rejoined the site, had to take a break and buy pampers and forumla for the baby. LOL
but real quick is it possible to do this but also save the patterens so that your co-producer will be able to get the patterens(scenes) and sounds?
and continue to work on the project?
if you save a group like this and it has patterns in it, the patterns will be saved with the group.
However if you
want to work on the same project it’s best to to a save project with samples and send them the whole folder with project/samples.
if you just want to send them a kit with some drum loops, etc or a chopped sample this would work
another informative video thanks
you mention transferring a kit from laptop to desktop…so is it possible to have the same copy of maschine software installed in two places?
yes you can install it on your laptop/desktop or if you have two computers or whatever
Hay SaintJoe. How did you choose all sounds for your kit at on time in stead of one by one?
Just highlight them all at once and drag them over from the browser
Hey SJ. how would you go about saving a kit using this method from different drum sources (i.e. a kick from my library, a snare from Maschine’s library?).
If you’re doing that it’s best to do a “save project with samples” from there you can either load that project and re-save the kits from that folder, or move that folder and build the kits from the samples in the folder, saving your kit files into that folder with the samples.
Bottom line, they need to let us collect and save our samples with our kits and be done with it.
@ SJ: hell yeah! that’s the move. i swear its such a mess when i make a great kit but screw it up when i see that DAMNED MISSING FILES popup (sucks!).
Bro you aint lied at all son lol
Thanks for this one, a lot of times one can get so caught up you forget things like this. I’m going to try to import some Goldbaby products through maschine’s library as you’ve demonstrated instead of doing the whole location directory scan which can take time off my life waiting for it to finish *lol*
Yeah I feel ya man LOL. A quick way to import his sounds is to go to the folder and import it, then go into maschine preferences under user libraries and add the alias to it, that way it won’t rescan the whole user directories.
Hello! Is this method of saving groups now different in 2.0 and beyond? thank you.
It actually changed before 2.0, you can just use the “save kit with samples” option now and it move your kits as needed.
thank you!
No problem!
How do you accomplish this with a sample I chopped up from a record.
This is an older video, in the latest version you can go to the group and use “save kit with samples” to save your kit with the sample.