Yo what’s good fam! In this tutorial I show you how to use Maschine’s pad mode to play any type of chords you want, directly from the pads, using Kontakt.
I know a lot of people want to be able to quickly play chords in Maschine and if you have Kontakt there’s definitely an easy way to do it that doesn’t involve midi routing at all.
I think it’s a feature many over look but it’s definitely something I suggest you dig into and experiment with.
It will allow you to play chords with ANY instrument you have loaded inside of Kontakt, it’s not tied to the instrument so you can change your instruments in the instance of Kontakt and still be able to play your chords
Heck, you could even start your recording with Kontakt sounds using the chords, and once you have that midi sequence data you can delete Kontakt and replace it with any other instrument or plugin you wish.
Lots of possibilities here, I just wanted to make sure you were aware as I usually don’t hear folks speak on it and when I mention it I get the deer in the headlights look
Check the video out below to see it in action!
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I bugged out the first time I messed with this.
Indeed sir lol.
thats dope!!!
doesnt kontakt have midi outs that u can rout to other vsts? i think u should try some mad scientist ish SJ lol
It does, yes LOL.
need that video buddy lol
Probably not LOL
Man, This is hot!! Hey SJ is there a way to play different Progressions using the pads? For Example, say I wanted to play a I-IV-V Pattern/Progression in the key of Db (Db-Gb-Ab)..
Well their isn’t a specific script for it, but you can load whatever chords you want to the pads as you can see, so you should be able to make up your progressions pretty swiftly.
Cool! I have to try this out! Thx!
word fam!
Man SJ you must Eat Drink and S opps This day in and day out .LOL Great vid fam def a useful one for me
Hahahaha, just love sharing tips and tricks man, anything to help folks make the music they hear in their head. I’d love to have a pad mode in Maschine for chords, but I will always show a workaround if it’s not something too difficult.
Dope video! I will be using this soon and very soon.
Nice fam, have fun wit it bro!
Nice find Saintjoe I am going to try this out soon.
NO doubt fam, have fun with it.
Yo fam dat made my day so much easier
Good news fam!!
So with one instance of Kontakt I can assign different chords to each of my 16 pads. So for instance I can have pad 1 play an A minor chord and pad 2 play a C major chord and so on up to 16 having different types of chords in diff keys on diff pads? Hope you get me lol. The idea is to pick chords for a track so it sounds musical and not just 16 major chords or 16 Minor 7th chords you feel me? kinda like if you chopped up a sample so it became a chord… Read more »
You can do that if you load an instance of Kontakt on each pad LOL
CPU!!! lol.
Yeah, it would be nice though, But there are other scripts out there, like scriptorium from soniccouture, I think you can save chord memories per key with that one.
That Was Nice It Make Life Easier With Out Mini Keyboad
Yes indeed fam, have fun wit it
is this for Kontact 5? or will it work on version 4 SJ
They are there in Kontakt 4 too bro 🙂
Videos like this make a brother feel guilty about having so many virtual instruments…..all I keep hearing as I watch this is LEARN YA TOOLS! I just got Komplete 8 ultimate and I feel like I am getting really efficient and creatively productive with Maschine and now I am deciding which VST I want to learn and dive head first into for a month or so….Kontakt, Battery, Absynth, ……so many choices. Speaking for myself, I don’t know half of what my set up is capable of and MT.com challenges me to get on it…..spending freeze is in full effect! Let’z… Read more »
hahahaha, there’s a lot there, but on the real, Kontakt is my most used NI product after Maschine just because there is so much there plus so many 3rd party companies make libraries for it.
DOPE !!!!!!!!!!! Oh man… them minor chords …thats all me too fam !! lol… And I like how you teasing everyone with that Mopho sittin there. I am definitely using this feature
You silly bro lol, I can’t hide it son LOL, but yeah, Kontakt scripts are nice fam.
how do u make those programs show on the keyboard looking tab? The one where u choose the neo soul keys, mine is empty.
That’s the quick browser, you add stuff in there by dragging it in manually and creating folders if you wish.
oh i see, man their so much stuff to learn, thanks bro.
No problem fam
Hey I appreciate the video Saint Joe, I have my maschine and keyboard set up as a midi to kontakt but kontakt still does not recognize it. do you have any advice?
set your keyboard up in maschine’s preferences, it will then trigger anything you load up in maschine, including kontakt.
Damn!! I opened up 5 instances of K 5 in one group with a kit in another and a bass in another and some other stuff and had no issue with cpu! More then enough instruments and drums for a completely thorough Beat!
My point is that all 5 K 5 instances where diff chords,5 diff chords stabbing and holding weaving through the track! this is very useful if you are gonna track some simple piano stuff man! NICE! effect each piano a little differently and it really spices up stuff.
Yessir!! I use multiple instances of Kontakt all the time 🙂
Glad it worked out for ya!
Happy Holidays Saintjoe! Is it possible to record chord changes in Maschine? Say for example the 1st chord is major, then I switch to minor in Kontakt for the next chord. Will it know that the 1st chord is still major?
I think in that case you would have to do like Thomasgreco and load a different instance of Kontakt on each pad to have different chords
Dang son I was gonna learn to play the piano, but now I can save the money on lessons and buy more sounds…..HAHAHAH I’m kiddin I’m still learning the keyboard, but this is a good tutorial, thanks,
You silly fam! I feel ya, don’t stop me from learning either, but it was a question I get a lot. Until NI put some sort of chord feature natively in Maschine….this is another way to make it work. Have fun yo.
sweet!!
Yessir fam, have some fun with it!
Hi saintjoe, awesome tip !
Thank you for this.
However, you said :
“Heck, you could even start your recording with Kontakt sounds using the chords, and once you have that midi sequence data you can delete Kontakt and replace it with any other instrument or plugin you wish”
Had love to see you doing that in your tut.
Cause my main interest is getting the chord midi notes, generated by Kontakt, recorded.
Maybe you could do a tut just explaining this.
Best,
Rob.
Since the script is only responding to a single note, you would setup midi out from kontakt and it should work, I may have to explore it for yall. 🙂
Oh, this is crazy good – kinda like Scale and Chord in Live. Perfect for guys like me that still have a LOT to learn in this area!
Joe, you mentioned at one point that this tip might help users to learn chords – how so?
It just seems like a wonderful shortcut (or cheat!) – which is great – but I cant quite see how this is going to help to learn how to play proper chords, but rather it will make me lazy!
It can help you learn since it shows you the keys in every chord you press on the keyboard 🙂
You can go through each chord and learn what keys you need to play that chord.
This is a great tool, I’m gonna spend tons of time learning funky new chords.
But SaintJoe whats the best way to add an appregriator to maschine. I could route midi to Live, but is there anything in kontakt or a good plugin for appregrios thatd you would recommend?
arps are a little more difficult because of the midi routing limitations in Maschine from sound to sound. I will see what I can find for that in the most simplest way.
thanks you saintjoe best idea to come to this site and learn some new tricks with my maschine
always glad to help fam!!
yo this is fuggin awesome.. I mean i HAVE MY KEYBOARD AN SHIT BUT THIS HELPS OUT TREMENDOUSLY BC I CANT PLAY THE PIANO FOR SHIT!
hahahaha, cool man, hope you find it useful!
Man this is too cool thx SJ. Now I gotta get a copy of Komplete waiting for ZZ to release the cross grade version for maschine.
That’s whasup fam, and you know I be on that ZZ son!
Does this work with Kontakt player or the rig urban workstation? I need this in my life…
I think you can use scripts in kontakt player but I’m not sure, I’ve been using the full version for so long. I don’t know if it’s one of those things you can only use in the full version or not, you’ll have to try it and see 🙂
lemme know!
Yeah it works in the Urban Rig but not in Kontakt Player, I’m going to get Komplete 8 now because of this haha. Thanks Saintjoe, stay blessed fam!!!
Ha LOL word man, it’s a cool feature for sure.
how about song frame? Could you check it out and advise if it is worth purchasing. Would be nice to have it work in ableton, whilst using ableton as a rack and machine standalone. tanageraudioworks.com/Products/SongFrame Thank you
Interesting, never saw that before
Does this feature work with Kontakt Player?!
I’m not sure if it’s in Kontakt Player or not, I’ve used to full version for so long, you can try it and see. Accessing the scripting engine like this may be a feature of the full version but I’m not sure.
Ok cool…thanx a lot…
saintjoe…just checked it out…it does indeed work with kontakt player…gonna be messing around with this fo sho…lol…thanx for the vid on how to do it man…
Nice!
is there no way to apply this chords to other sounds? I actually am looking at a way to assign multiple midi notes to a single pad so when I hit the pad I want it to play those notes (simultaneously or if possible in the order I play them).. thanks!
You can use other tools like the iPad or other chord programs for that, but you can’t do it with the Kontakt script, it plays whatever is in Kontakt. Would love to have a chord mode in Maschine directly, but not currently possible.
Your a Saint:) Joe thank you this will make a major difference to my production work flow been waiting for this Man, tried a few iPad apps and some other methods this offers a lot more options by far and so easy to setup yeah yeah
Urbankonnect.
soundclould/urbankonnect
glad to help man, all about options 🙂
pretty sweet stuff!
Have fun with it man!