Sequencer/Pattern Editor improvements

Blezz Beats

To me, the greatest beauty of Maschine is (even more was) the extreme sense of immediacy and hands-on control. While I love the later additions of features to the sequencer/pattern editor, they've also removed a big chunk of that smoothness. Especially after adding clips. With only scenes and patterns and working from the arrangement view, it was really fast to bang out a whole arrangement right on the controller. Now I mostly stay in the ideas view, append all the scenes, and do little to nothing in the arrangement view before exporting to Ableton Live.

Makes me a bit scared for the product to hear suggestions about making these parts more granular than they already are.

Imo, anything extra that is added needs to be handled at least just as swiftly from the controller as from the software. I shouldn't need to use the mouse at all, there are better DAWs for that which there's no use in competing with.

A bit of a useless comment when I'm just whining like an old man about better times, I don't have any concrete suggestions on top of my mind about how to simplify the hardware workflow and have nothing against adding more features, but I just want to underline a core strength of Maschine that shouldn't be overlooked and should be taken into consideration. I'd rather see a focus on simplifying the use of existing features.

And speaking from user feedback which I don't really care about myself: tempo modulation and recording track mutes.

Oleksii

1. It would be nice to have a different track length for each instrument in the group. It would allowed to make polyrhythmic patterns.

2 There is not enough randomization of events (note), generation of drum loops.

rrahim

I typically use Maschine in other DAWs. I would love to be able to trigger specific clips or patterns from midi.

For example:

-Add Maschine to an Ableton Live project

-Create patterns in Maschine

-launch patterns as needed from Midi track in Ableton Live

-(optionally) route outputs from Maschine to different audio tracks

I know there may be ways to do this right now, but it is always too complicated and never feels as an intended use case.

Marc Lemar

1. Explode - makes new tracks for all note pitches inside clip/pattern, good to devide drum groups
2. I NEED TO EASILY IMPORT MIDI FILES!! I
3. Please allow midi software such as Scaler and others alike to easily work in Maschine it’s terrible that they don’t.
4. I hate to be that guy, but the arranger should allow for any audio any track to be edited much like a regular DAW. take Appleton for example in the arrange review you can pretty much do anything you want with audio files and routing, anything that you want. Machine is so close to being on top in terms of easy to use but many of the shortcomings have honestly led me to not even using the program anymore, because Native Instruments simply hasn’t been updating it to provide the features we want.

NC17z

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/116480#Comment_116480

This has got to be my Number One Request! Having the ability to manipulate -X2 and +X2 Times in plugins like the Abey Road series of drum patterns as well as the other plugins that NI offers such as the String/Horn Plugins. I'd also like to make this point. Kai, if your listening,... YES, it would give us so many creative possibilities that one could spend a lifetime experimenting with them if you could double time a sequence that was from an Expansion Library or a stock Maschine Pattern. I bet everyone over at NI might be thinking, "Why would anyone want to buy anything new from the expansion libraries? They're satisfied experimenting and playing with their existing purchases of expansion libraries." Believe me when I tell you, we'll still buy expansions! Its just what we do! NI Users are not just users of NI products, We're Fans, We're fans because nobody knows like we do just how fast you can get an idea down with Maschine, nobody knows like we do that if you are uninspired that spending less than 60 seconds with Maschine you'll suddenly become inspired. So, I guess you could say it would be like putting a fresh coat of paint Maschine. Oh, and I'm aware that many of the developers and employees are musicians and producers themselves. Run it by one of them, and watch their eyes open so wide with excitement because it will be like the very first time they used Maschine. Everything will suddenly become brand new again however, this time around there will be no learning curve and you can just get into using it with this feature. If you made it this far, thanks for listening.

Lowkus

I posted this in the Facebook Maschine group in 2017 and have been asking for it ever since Maschine came out. So here it is again...

Please add notation pattern stretching. Attached is a theoretical image of what it would look like; you can see two identical groups of notes but one of them has the pattern start points stretched. I was eyeballing the note positions when I created the stretched positioning, so forgive the inaccuracies. When stretching the notes it is only adjusting the starting point positions, the note lengths remain the same as before the stretch. Pattern stretching would be extremely useful for recording without a click-track, where you naturally feel out a groove and then stretch it to fit the measures of the song.

Antonio B

Thanks for the opportunity to offer feedback :)

1. More aleotoric capabilities:

a. Different track lengths (see Deluge)

b. Per note probability (see Novation Tracks & Electron)

c. Probability function for arpeggiator(s). (See Novation Peak & Bleass Arpeggiator).

2. Visual Pattern/loop Position Indicator on actual pattern blocks.

Ciao!

Murat Kayi

@jolly Dodger

(Wow, this mention is a remainder of a previous draft and the post editor won't let me remove it. I hate these new forum so much..)

I see people asking for different pattern lengths within the same group for each sound.

That sounds like a nightmare to handle and if it is because of polymetrics: you can just use two or more groups for that with different pattern lengths per group!

kbryarly

Allow us expand and create our own chords for the chord sequencer. Give us inversions, voicing and variations for chords. Also, let us access all 16 pads for chords.

tempsperdu

Lowkus

Please add notation pattern stretching. Attached is a theoretical image of what it would look like; you can see two identical groups of notes but one of them has the pattern start points stretched. I was eyeballing the note positions when I created the stretched positioning, so forgive the inaccuracies. When stretching the notes it is only adjusting the starting point positions, the note lengths remain the same as before the stretch. Pattern stretching would be extremely useful for recording without a click-track, where you naturally feel out a groove and then stretch it to fit the measures of the song.

Apologies in advance if I've misunderstood you, but how do you envision this actually working?

You can do what you have done there manually already, but I am assuming you want a tool to do this in an easier fashion. Is that correct?

Rilkecat

Working with AUDIO modules for audio loops is super tedious as you cannot change its own starting position within the pattern. MIDI notes can be nudged to try different combinations, but not the AUDIO starting point, so its super difficult to create grooves with audio loops.

As a workaround I change AUDIO to SAMPLER, so I can choose the position in which the audio loop gets triggered. However, as SAMPLER does not have adaptative tempo, any change in tempo and everything gets out of sync.

Darin McKinney

The ability to enter event time and velocity amount by key instead of using sliders. Unless I'm missing something. If you could select all events for one sound and enter the velocity amount, or set a velocity limit, that would be great. The MPC hardware would let you enter in the exact time stamp for a note played. You could move notes forward or left by slight adjustments. Sort of like nudge, but it's more precise. With nudge you really don't know what time stamp the event is on.

Darin McKinney

To allow the Maschine to work as a VST in other DAWs, while still maintaining full functionality of maschine software via the Maschine controller... Allowing the maschine to be used as a master, or slave to the current DAW. Right now if I want to sequence on Maschine, and then record vocals on a DAW, I can't do both at the same time. We used to be able to do both with hardware. Simulating the same with software would open up a ton of doors for workflow. You can open up the Maschine currently in the DAW and the sequence will play and sync, but if you want to make Maschine sequence changes, you can't do it within another DAW.

Rikk Show

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/117843#Comment_117843

A midi file is just notes with a timing offset. If you multiply all timing offset with 1.05 as an example everything is moved/stretched with 5%. It is really simple math to implement. Just set the cursor as an anchor as well and you can stretch from or before that point. Unless the NI engineers invented some strange unusual way to manage the midi notes.

Rikk Show

Just dropping it here. ARA2 version?

Unsure though how patterns work in this case and moving on the time line. But ARA really is the "new Rewire".