Yo what’s good fam!
This is sort of a geeky one for me. Anyone that has Motu BPM knows what I mean.
We love the sounds of the drums and library, but if you have Maschine, you definitely prefer its workflow over BPM.
Sure there are other things I like about BPM, but it’s just not enough to make me try to sequence in it over Maschine.
But one thing we always try to figure out is a way to use those sounds, since they are in a special Motu/Uvi bank format, you can’t just go to a folder and grab the samples.
Well, I was messing around with it again recently and figured out how to get any of the drums, loops, or samples into Maschine, no vst loading, no midi mapping, none of that.
If you own BPM, I know you’re gonna love this, even if you don’t you may love it anyway!
*access this video instantly when you join today!This method also works using UVI Workstation or Motu MachFive, but they don’t let you actually preview individual hits it just loads them automatically, they only preview the loops. So I like using BPM over them, but the concept is the same in all 3.
This basically turns BPM into a sample/library manager or browser for any Motu or UVI soundbank, so you can quickly preview and load sounds, it’s almost like having them directly in the Maschine disk browser.
enjoy!
Man those drums sounds good Joe. May have to look into BPM!
word fam, people always loved the sound engine/library of BPM, just glad to be able to have access to it outside of using BPM yo.
I don’t have BPM, but that is a pretty cool tip.
Since once you save the Project, Maschine saves each drum hit as a .Aif file – could you theoretically then go and import those .aifs into the Maschine Library?
Thus having the BPM library searchable on Maschine?
As I said in the video you also can just drag them to a folder first instead of Maschine, and build up a BPM library directly in Maschine. Which is what I’ve started doing, but there’s a lot in there so I’m just going through and picking out some of the best (in my opinion) then I will have a Motu BPM bank inside of Maschine 😉
Ah, cool – I must’ve missed that bit.
So dragging the hits out of BPM directly to a folder on your desktop automatically creates the aif file?
Yessir 🙂
Hmmm… that is food for thought.
I’ve heard pretty good things about the sample library that comes with BPM. A local retailer has BPM for $100 off til the end of the month…. I’m tempted.
Would it be worth it to get the library? I mean, I figure the software is more or less redundant with Maschine around, right?
Well, I used to dig the software for it’s ability to load every motu/uvi library in it’s “racks”, that was before Maschine 1.6 and vst plugins though. There are things I dig about the software but overall it just doesn’t get used with Maschine around, yet the library sounds are useful. I suppose you could look at it as buying a large sample library if you think you would like the sounds in it
‘I suppose you could look at it as buying a large sample library if you think you would like the sounds in it’
Yeah, that was pretty much the thinking SJ.
For such a large amount of content, it probably works out to be better value than buying smaller sample packs from third party developers, right?
again, it depends on what you’re looking for. Like the hip hop planet, that isn’t included in the BPM factory library, I got that as an add on. So it really depends on if you feel you want the drums from the BPM library or not. There are also loops and riffs within the library you could use too.
Yo Joe. I’m not able to pull them sounds on to my Windows7 desktop or anything. I opened BPM in standalone (not plugin inside Maschine). I gotta get them BPM sounds inside my Maschine! My BPM plugin .dll seems to be 64 bit and wont open in Maschine as a plugin anyway, but what am I doing wrong? These sounds dont drag and drop for me at all. Thanks bruh
I’m using windows 7, 64 bit, make sure you are dragging from the proper folder. They should most definitely be working. Also I have BPM version 1.5 so I don’t know if that makes a difference or not? It shouldn’t though, as long as you’re dragging from the sounds/samples folder and not trying to drag the kits.
yeah man, I’m dragging from the sounds folder (BPM 1.5, too). Not dragging kits at all–all sounds. When I pull them over either into Maschine or my desktop they never successfully drop in..nothing happens. Cant figure out whats happenin.
Yeah fam, not sure what to tell ya, there are no settings or anything I had to change, had folks telling me it was working for them perfectly. Do you have the ability to capture a video of what’s happening and sending to me?
Yeah, no worries man. I’ll keep trying! lol
I want to know why it’s not working lol.
yo fam, I just realized I had 1.0 on this machine. That may be why its not working for me. If you got BPM 1.0, it aint gonna work. Probably only works if you got the BPM 1.5 update, though.
really? interesting, hmmm…they didn’t mention anything special about drag and drop in the 1.5 update, but it would be good to know! But I’m not sure, I don’t think to folks I talk to got the 1.5 update….then again maybe they do lol. Do you have 1.5 on another machine?
I got the 1.05 update and it works like a charm. lol
Nice :), interesting to know, wonder if they did that on purpose or not…..oh well!
oh man….LOL…. so easy… and so easy to miss… great job SJ
No doubt bro lol
Hey SJ just wondering b/cuz you’re right BPM & Maschine does not play nice together, but are you using ASIO on your audio Interface when you loaded up both Maschine & BPM?. When I try to load them independently I can only hear the 1st 1 I loaded up. When I look @ the audio settings the other automatically changes over to MME.
I have a focusrite I terrace it allows multiple apps to use it at the same time
Oh ok I might have to look into that. I’m rockin the M-Audio NRV10, but I did find a work-around by leaving BPM in ASIO and changing the audio setting in Maschine to Shared WASAPI(I think that’s it I’m @ work right now). Hopefully an update on one or both of the programs will let them play a little bit nicer together.
Yeah having a multi client interface is a great thing to have, I highly suggest it. I can’t function with an interface that only allows one device at a time 🙂