For those that like to work in realtime and want to know how to track out Maschine 2.0 in Ableton Live 9 this tutorial is for you.
Maybe you prefer this method to drag and drop or traditional export, where you can come up with a basic idea and then perform that idea in realtime.
The good part about this setup is you get individual audio tracks of the performance, complete with all of your mutes, solos, tweaks or whatever else you wish to do.
Back when I was using all hardware this is how I used to record my songs, only I would record them to a stereo track on one of those 16 track digital recorders.
This is definitely more flexible because you can still go back and mix, add fx, and other things to each track.
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LOL..man this is TOO DOPE !!
Ahahahaha lol, don’t tell me you gonna grab ableton now LOL You can do this in studio one too, more vids coming 🙂
LOL…nah I learned my lesson with Live… I know its not for me
Good LOL your exchange rate is astounding…you gonna do another video with that MX49? 😉
yo my man you live up to your name. Saint JOE! Thanks a ton. Im ready to rock! I know Ill have plenty more questions regarding this, but at least I have a good start!
Sorry for the delay man, but let me know if you have any questions, hope it helps ya out!
Awesome Joe … Does midi work the same way as in your older ableton videos? :=)
Nope, works a bit different, check the MIDI drag and drop video for Ableton.
this is dope eliminates the need for drag and drop. I wonder if the same thing can be done in Logic.
yeah you can do it in Logic too, here’s one on the old version showing the basic concept
https://maschinetutorials.com/maschine-in-logic-pro-tracking-out-audio-in-real-time/
dope. Thanks Saint
dope. Thanks Saint. Just watched it. Man thats involved lol. I keep going back and forth between LPX & AL9. Trying to feel which has the best workflow with Maschine.
No doubt fam, glad to help. I don’t use Logic so I can’t say, I like Live or Studio One with Maschine but mostly I just use it in standalone honestly.
Unfortunately Maschine 2.0 works differently than 1.8 in Logic. So this unfortunately this tutorial https://maschinetutorials.com/maschine-in-logic-pro-tracking-out-audio-in-real-time/
does not work.
It`s driving me crazy to get it to work with MIDI in Logic. But I am hooked on Maschine 2.0
so if guys can do a tutorial than would be awesome.
Happy holidays!!!
In order to route audio you don’t need MIDI, here’s the video for Logix X and Maschine 2 https://maschinetutorials.com/maschine-2-0-routing-multiple-audio-channels-into-logic-pro-x/
Tight video St Joe!! But damn, that track u was bangin in the tutorial was off the chain!
Thanks fam, glad you liked it!
Great tutorial thanks. Really enjoying the site. MIDI to Ableton tutorial was super helpful too. Cheers!
Cool fam, lemme know if you have any questions or anything you want to see a video on
Will do, thank you again!
What up Saintjoe you the man…I need to kno how to route multiple Maschine 2 audio channels in Cubase 7 … think I tried every logical setting and still cant get it
I don’t have Cubase 7, I have 6 LE, but I may be able to get the download and show it for you.
‘I forgot to route my bongo.’ Ha ha!
Hahahahaha lol
Hey, Joe… I’m new to all this and was wondering if you had a video or could tell me how to actually set up maschine with my mikro through ableton live 9 lite?
Which setup do you need help with? Are you just trying to open it as a plugin in Ableton? There’s a few different ways you can work with Maschine and Ableton and we have a few videos specifically with Ableton, but I can lead you in the right direction if I know exactly what you need help with 🙂
I’m using a mac…
Yeah I’m trying to open it as a plugin. I followed the instructions on some random video I found on YouTube for setting it all up but I can’t get ableton to even recognize maschine or the controller. For instance when you’re exporting audio on your videos to ableton you have maschine set up as a master track… I can’t even get that far in the process. Haha. Pardon my inexperience. I’ve been a musician for a long time, but just recently I’ve begun recording and using a drum maschine. And I’m still trying to adapt to a mac. Up… Read more »
Ahhh, so if you go into your preferences you want to go to the “custom plugin folder” and make sure it’s pointing to the location where your plugins are stored, I believe on mac that’s like the Audio folder, then there should be a plugins folder in the Audio folder. I’m away from home at the moment but when I get back I will check out the exact path on my mac mini if you don’t find it before then
I want to be able to transfer the individual tracks into ableton like some of your other videos show, but first I need to actually set ableton up to work with maschine, and they don’t make it obvious at least as to how you go about that.
Yeah, check your ableton preferences and see if it’s pointing to your “custom plugin folder” so that your plugins show up. Then you should be able to see all available plugins in the ableotn browser.
You’re a wizard Joe, thanks! That was like taking candy from a baby. Haha.
Glad to help fam!
Hey SaintJoe, another question for you. Like I said before I have ableton live 9 lite… I’ve followed all the steps in your video, but unfortunately it’s not showing the individual sounds playing on the individual mixers. It plays the whole song through the master on one. Am I missing a step on the master? Once I got the plugins onto ableton I just double click maschine2 and it brought it up. Is there something specific I have to change on the inputs our outputs to make it possible to monitor the individual tracks?
Yeah you have to route the channels in maschine to external outputs the You can receive them in Ableton
I’m wondering if the lite version of ableton just won’t let me unitize this function…
I did all that. I set each individual sound on my drums to separate outputs. My pianos, synths, and basses to individual ones as well. Like I said, I did it just like the video up top shows but it’s not registering on the individual tracks, only the master…
Nevermind. I hjad Maschine open before I opened ablteon, shut it all down, opened ableton and loaded the plugin which brought up machine and then I followed the steps and now it’s working. Sorry to bug ya.
Ahh ok, cool man!
Hi! Have a question regarding workflow with ableton and maschine. At the moment I use Cuasbe and Maschine, but I am thinking about buying Ableton because of its functionality with automation and editing. Some of you disagree, but thats not the point of this post. I wonder if there is possibilities in easily exporting audio from Ableton into Maschine. It is a sampler in ableton which is called simpler (i think), but I want to use maschine. My idea is to use Maschine for drum patterns and those things, as well as chopping audiofiles and then exporting them back into… Read more »
You could sample it into the Maschine plugin by routing audio from the Ableton track into the Maschine track. That would be the quickest way I could think of.
Or your could freeze the plugin track once you’re done, flatten the audio, and drag it to a folder in your ableton browser. Have that folder be a favorite in Maschine and you should be able to open it quickly.
I am using ableton to mix and master using izotope ozone 5 (because Maschine overloads surprisingly) and after 20 plus hours of exporting master track from Maschine and opening it up in live I had to find a better workflow. I can now edit, mix and master in real time.
Thank you Saint Joe for this trick and all the Maschine help you share.
Glad to help fam!
Hi SaintJoe
How would I got about setting up Maschine if I were to use my awesome Evolve sound library,in ,my Mikro?
same idea of audio routings?
Cheers
You mean if you have Evolve loaded as a plugin in Maschine? The software routing is the same no matter which controller you have, if you want to get the audio out into Ableton you’d just route the pads or groups to the external outputs.
saint joe! love working like this man, but when i go to hit the little circle dot on the track in live to start recording, it never starts right away in recording, so therefore it’s off half a beat… when i trigger it playing it always starts right away, do you know what could be the issue there?
It depends on how you have your global sync setup, it’s probably starting on the next bar after you press it.
It’s usually only half a beat off, but what’s weird is I have both global quantizations set to a bar in live 9 n maschine… I’ll play with it more tnite and see if I can’t figure sonething out….what’s weird is that it plays just fine, triggering all on the same time eyc, but only when I record is there a delay at the beginning…
Hey Saintjoe,
I’m having a problem here. I want to create a drum pattern in Maschine, in real time inside of Ableton. Once I have the pattern down, I want to track it out to audio, just like you’ve shown us here. The problem is, I can’t get Maschine to start recording the pattern on bar 1. It’s starting at bar 2:1:2, I cannot figure out how to get back to bar 1 so that I can play/perform the pattern in real time along with Ableton. Any ideas?
You can use your mouse to put it back at the beginning, also you can drag and drop the audio directly into Ableton.
The mouse doesn’t work in Maschine while it’s a VST inside of Ableton.
Also, I am trying to create the pattern in Maschine in real time. I.E., bang out the drums on my Maschine, whilst playing over the warped sample in Ableton. So there is no audio yet. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
I was talking about after you make the pattern, then you can drag it out as audio into Ableton. As for where it starts, have you tried resetting ableton back to the beginning?
I’ve got a question Saint Joe.
So If I wanted to route every sound from every group I had already created in Maschine. As I would really like complete control over all sounds in Ableton.
The reason I ask is….I see Maschine only has 16 ext channels! I saw in this video it was possible to route 16 sounds from one complete group in Maschine…… But for instance. What if I wanted to route 3 full groups of sixteen sounds over into Live………Is the possible?????
Thank you Sir
Correct, only 16 outputs, so you’d have to use multiple instances of the plugin in that case.
So I could open up two instances of Maschine as a plug in in live? Man this is confusing lol
Yeah you could definitely open up multiple instances, and it does start to get crazy. Also you can always export the audio and work with it directly in your daw instead unless you want to make some changes and such as you’re mixing.
I feel a tutorial request coming on lol…….Thanks for the quick reply though Saint Joe!
Always bang on the money over at this site 🙂
Glad to help fam!