Project and Group management on the M+

tribepop

Does anyone have any tips or best practices for managing Projects and Groups within the Maschine+ standalone? Specifically, can you tag different groups/projects or save them in subfolders on the SD card? For projects, it's a pain to scroll through the full list of projects without any other information (e.g. create date, subfolder, etc.). For groups, it's the same issue where I have a bunch of .mxgrp with sample folders and I'm wondering if I can tag them in the software and then copy them over to the M+ SD card so that I can filter by vendor instead of having them all under "Maschine" as the vendor.

tribepop

Ok I did some messing around and I think I have a workable solution to the problem. I always use project template files (e.g. one for when I'm composing a song strictly in maschine and another one for sequencing and jamming with my external synths), so I imported those files from the M+ into the Maschine SW on my PC and had to manually tag the project files using relevant tags and then copied them back over to the M+.

So whenever I start a new song I open this template file and save as a new file, it retains the tag (e.g. "Ext. Synth Jam") and I can filter by tag in the browser on the M+ which allows me to quickly see which project files are using the external synth template. Likewise, I can do the same for the Maschine only project files and can have tags related to different albums or whatever which is super helpful.

I also did the same for my .mxgrp files so that the drum kits I manually created of popular drum machines have their own tag "Drum Kits" so they don't get lumped in with the other types of .mxgrp files I have that are not drum kits in the browser.