Setting up Digitone, Ableton and Maschine
Hi there, i want to share a quick question through my expierences i used to have lately.
I use the Maschine MK3 as a Plugin in Ableton Live. Routing sounds into Ableton mainly the Drum Synths. I use an external Audio Interface, where i connected the Audio to Digitone. The Digitone goes via MIDI Cable into the Maschine. Without using Overbridge Plugin.
Its no Problem when i use Maschine as an Standalone with its Software to play the four Tracks of the DN in the MK3.
But i want to Digitone through Maschine in Ableton.
Is there any expierence, besides the fact that is a bit of a complicating setup?
Thank you.
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Hum... I think it's the other way around since the Digitone is mainly a Synth, using a synth to sequence seems odd when both Ableton and Maschine are more capable sequencers (?)
I think if you just change the "MIDI To" in the Ext Instruments on that Drum Rack to simply send MIDI to the Digitone instead of back into the Maschine-Plug it should work, If you want to do it via the MIDI DIN of the MK3 then select it's Port there. The Digitone will need to be aware of the MIDI channels used of course.
To hear back the Digitone you would need to connect it's Audio Outs to the IN's of your interface and have an Audio track in Ableton armed with the correct IN's.
This should work to be able to send MIDI from MAS-Plug into the Digitone and hear things back. Let me know if it works, if not there are other approaches you can try.
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Have you set up Ableton to receive midi through Maschine’s midi ports?
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Yes, i did. Both, the Inputs and the Outputs.
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Yes, i did. Both, the Inputs and the Outputs.
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Im confused... Whats the intention here?
Maschine-Plug with drumsynth pads sending separate Audio tracks to Ableton Audio tracks but the MIDI triggering of those drumsynths is supposed to come from the Digitone? Or do you want to trigger it from the Maschine Pads?
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Hi, my goal is to sync and sequence the Digitone in Maschine running Maschine as Plugin Instance in Ableton. As i did here with the Drum Synths in Ableton.
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If I understood correctly, he wants to use the Digitone sequencer to play Maschine sounds (and eventually record the midi (or the audio) in Ableton pianoroll)
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Hi, i am trying to explain accurate as possible. I want to trigger the Digitone with his sounds via MIDI from Maschine Pads, Knobs etc. As if i was playing it in like a VST, in Ableton. With just the ingredients i listed up in my first Comment. I know this is possible with Software like Overbridge, but for me no option for now.
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Entschuldigt bitte mein Englisch!
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Ah ok…so it’s the opposite of what I thought. Not Digitone playing Maschine, but Maschine playing Digitone…
So you have to setup Maschine midi out under Sound to send to Digitone, Digitone to receive from Maschine and then bring the Audio out of Digitone into Ableton through the audio interface you are using
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Kein Problem. Dein English ist nicht schlecht…nur einige Information fehlten 👍🏼
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Hum... I think it's the other way around since the Digitone is mainly a Synth, using a synth to sequence seems odd when both Ableton and Maschine are more capable sequencers (?)
I think if you just change the "MIDI To" in the Ext Instruments on that Drum Rack to simply send MIDI to the Digitone instead of back into the Maschine-Plug it should work, If you want to do it via the MIDI DIN of the MK3 then select it's Port there. The Digitone will need to be aware of the MIDI channels used of course.
To hear back the Digitone you would need to connect it's Audio Outs to the IN's of your interface and have an Audio track in Ableton armed with the correct IN's.
This should work to be able to send MIDI from MAS-Plug into the Digitone and hear things back. Let me know if it works, if not there are other approaches you can try.
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Yes you are right, he just explained it.
Btw (and unrelated to this discussion): I’ve just seen your (?) mock-up of an idea for an hardware “expansion unit” for Maschine in another thread…quite a nice idea 👍🏼. I told you you should be a designer and not a moderator 😉)
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Thanks Guys, i worked it out.
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Happy for you that now everything is working as you want
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