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I am interested in being able to control parameters for effects and instruments on my Maschine+ using MIDI CC's from an external sequencer. Currently I can send notes and Program Changes from my sequencer and set up all the mappings using the M+'s UI, but I can't use MIDI CC's because there is no way to assign them to specific parameters. I know there is a workaround of using Maschine's MIDI Learn functionality on the desktop and then saving the project onto the SD card, but it would be great to be able to do that directly from the Maschine+'s UI.

I sent an email to tech support and they said they would add it as a feature request, but it would help to get some traction of people talking about in on the forum as that's where developers check the most. So feel free to throw a +1 on here if it interests you.

I was thinking some kind of shift combo would work to flip in the M+ into MIDI Learn mode, then you would tap an encoder for the parameter you want to learn a CC to, then send a CC message from your external controller just like you would with the software.

So, I was replying to yet another thread about the Stop button behavior, basically how it does not return the Playhead to the beginning with a double-press like most music SW does and while looking at Maschine's code I realized it's actually pretty simple to hack / modify...

EDIT: For anyone on MacOS NIPatcher can modify the software for you, here:

So I added a function that makes a Shift+Stop combo to both stop the playback and bring the Playhead to the start. There's not much more to explain but here's a short video:

To do it manually on MacOS:

• Right-click the Maschine.app or VST/AU, choose "Show Package Contents" and replace the TransportSection.lua file in Contents / Resources / Scripts / Shared / Components with the one attached in this thread. (unzip it first)

• On Windows it's trickier and requires ResourceHacker, I'm not sure if one can drag-and-drop a file to replace another with the ResourceHacker app so just copy-paste the code as explained below:

in Line107 I basically changed this:

To this:

Here is the code if you need to paste it:

function TransportSection:onStop(Pressed)

    if self.Controller:getShiftPressed() then
      NI.DATA.TransportAccess.restartTransport(App)
      NI.DATA.TransportAccess.togglePlay(App)
    else
    if Pressed and MaschineHelper.isPlaying() then
      NI.DATA.TransportAccess.togglePlay(App)
    end

  end

end

If instead of Shift+STOP you prefer a double of STOP then it's this code:

function TransportSection:onStop(Pressed)

  if Pressed and MaschineHelper.isPlaying() then
   NI.DATA.TransportAccess.togglePlay(App)
  else
   if Pressed and not MaschineHelper.isPlaying() then
     NI.DATA.TransportAccess.restartTransport(App)
     NI.DATA.TransportAccess.togglePlay(App)
   end

  end

end

NI devs are free to use my code BTW 🤣🤣🤣

If you're on a Mac, and you want to make it so Maschine JAM no longer changes the focused group when you select a pattern, then (after making a backup) change the section starting line 182 of

/Applications/Native Instruments/Maschine 2/Maschine 2.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/Maschine/Helper/PatternHelper.lua

to read:

function PatternHelper.focusPatternByGroupAndByIndex(GroupIndex, PatternIndex, CreateIfEmpty)


    if PatternIndex == nil or PatternIndex < 0 or GroupIndex == nil or GroupIndex < 0 then
        return
    end


    local FocusGroup = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusGroupIndex(App)
    local Group = MaschineHelper.getGroupAtIndex(GroupIndex)


    if Group then


        local Pattern = Group:getPatterns():find(PatternIndex)


        if Pattern then


            local FocusSection = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusSection(App)
            local FocusScene = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusScene(App)
            local FocusScenePattern = FocusScene and NI.DATA.SceneAccess.getPattern(FocusScene, Group)
            local HasFocus = Pattern == FocusScenePattern


            if HasFocus then
                if FocusSection then
                    NI.DATA.SectionAccess.removePattern(App, FocusSection, Group)
                else -- In Idea Space we work on Scenes directly.
                    NI.DATA.SceneAccess.removePattern(App, FocusScene, Group)
                end
            else
                NI.DATA.GroupAccess.insertPatternAndFocus(App, Group, Pattern)
            end
            if FocusGroup ~= GroupIndex then
                MaschineHelper.setFocusGroup(FocusGroup + 1, false)
            end


        elseif CreateIfEmpty == true then
            -- note: AudioPatterns can't currently be empty, so CreateIfEmpty is n/a
            PatternHelper.insertNewPattern(PatternIndex, Group)
        end


    end


end

Sorry to disappoint, but they are artwork :)

I bought a Maschine Mikro Mk3 yesterday with a Mac + M1 Max chip, and spent most of the day installing and uninstalling Maschine 2 and the Factory packs etc., trying to stop it from crashing after browsing just a few kits.

I have been using Maschine 2.15.2 and couldn't find a downgrade link, so I continued to tweak the settings. I tried increasing the Buffer size in the Audio Preferences of Maschine to 1024 and it started to crash every time I changed kits. I then tried lowering the buffer to 128, and Maschine hasn't skipped a beat. I can now use the Mikro Mk3 to browse through hundreds of kits, and it hasn't crashed since I lowered the buffer. I can't say for sure, as it's only been an hour or so, but if you are having problems with Maschine 2 browsing kits on an M1 Mac it might be worth trying.

Apologies if this is common knowledge or doesn't help anyone.