What have you learned on the Maschine today?

Jiglo

I've gotta say, even though i've made some of my best music and ideas with the Maschine already and been using my M+ quite a lot over the 13 months or so that i've owned it, i'm still learning new tips and techniques on it. Sometimes even, i've forgotten features i'd learned months ago through lack of repetition using them, and then relearned them too.

So, after jamming along yesterday on my SP-16 to a remake of Hashim's - 'Al Naafiysh' that i'd made a few years ago and realising how great it was to hit the stab pretty much bang on every time, I suggested it as an update i'd like to see in a future Maschine update on Creative D'Will's channel, as he was asking what we would like to see, and he informed me it could be done already. So that's what i've learned today, if anyone else wants to share tips on things they've learned....?

ozon

Today, I made a field recording of a church bell carillon and learned how to slice the sample with auto detect to get each bell hit on to a Pad of a new Group.

Never needed that function before and didn’t know how easy it is to use. And it worked extremely well.

Jiglo

Cool!

I should have pointed out that I hit: Settings > General, page 2/3, then changed Quantize Mode to Play/Rec. I had tried it before, but mustn't have used hits with fast enough attack to notice it working then, so dismissed it.

Would be better on a per project level if you make a wide range of musical genres like I do and like jamming ideas out live, but it's still great to have if you don't have the best timing.

RafaelsTracks

I was always annoyed that the slices wouldn't stop playing in sampling mode. Now I've learnt that you can stop this by pressing Shift+Mute (Choke). I always wondered what this button was all about.

RafaelsTracks

Next thing: When working in Arranger Mode, while Loop is active, you can press Shift+Restart (Loop) and turn the 4D-Encoder. This changes the loop position. You can also press and turn the 4D-Encoder and change the length of the loop. You basically need to press 3 buttons a time and turn a knob.😅

ozon

Locking the Mute button!

https://youtu.be/FTaDSqJZbac?si=-6ssdq_lqELSNtMt

Kaldosh

I’ve learned we are restricted to 512 parameters 😊

djadidai

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107968#Comment_107968

can you please explain more?

Kaldosh

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/108412#Comment_108412

It seems that we can map up to 512 control parameters per device . (Not that you should need that much ) but trying to achieve a complete mapping of a virtual synth I ended up hitting the 512 parameter limit

djadidai

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/108433#Comment_108433

Lol Holy moly!!