Recording Kontakt Chord Tool Notes Into Maschine

kjn2r3 · 2025-06-16T23:12:23+00:00

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I'm playing around with some chord progressions using a Kontakt instrument + Chords Tool, and would like to record the individual notes into Maschine. However, when I hit record and start playing, Maschine only records the sound, alongside the single MIDI note that I was hitting to play the chord in Kontakt. Is there any easy way to record all of the notes of a chord into Maschine?

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Jeremy_NI

Hey there, you can easily drag and drop the chords into patterns:

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Jeremy_NI

Hey there, you can easily drag and drop the chords into patterns:

kjn2r3

Thanks Jeremy! I had tried that, and it worked for the first chord, but when I try and drag a second chord into the sequencer, it just overwrites the first chord. Am I doing something wrong?

Also, is there any way to record the notes normally? Or is the drag and drop the only easy method?

Olivier57

Hello,

You can drag and drop all the chords using the little icon to the right of the chords. Except that it doesn't work, when dragging and dropping all the chords are superimposed.

Jeremy can you confirm this ?

(I wanted to post a short video, but the forum refuses)

D-One

Yes. Drag-and-drop MIDI replaces whatever is currently on the Pattern.

Kontakt has all Chords drag-and-drop too, here:

But that won't work in Maschine either… 🤷‍♂️

The only solution I can think of is to create a new pattern before adding each chord, then use copy paste to get all of them in the same Pattern, quite annoying.

Olivier57

I don't understand: drag and drop in Ableton Live creates a track for each chord instead of creating the chord progression on the same track. And with UA Luna, drag and drop doesn't work.

D-One

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/230985#Comment_230985

It's because NI decided it was a good idea to separate the chords in the generated MIDI file by Track… 🤷‍♂️ DAW's usually ask what to do with multi-track MIDI, or have a preference setting for it, Maschine has virtually no options for MIDI importing at all so does not kow what to do with it.

On Ableton, holding CMD (CTRL on Windows?) when dropping places all chords in the same track — after that you can consolidate into a single MIDI, right-click it and export, then import to Maschine if you're up for an annoying workaround.

No ideia about Luna as I dont use it.

Olivier57

Not very practical all this.

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