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Someone vibe coded a tracker for Maschine MK3/Maschine+ hardware

Jeremy_NI

Pretty cool, this guy is vibe coding a tracker, inspired by Polyend Tracker to work on the Maschine MK3/Maschine Plus hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3tt4qON-w&t=371s

He also made a Reddit thread here, if anyone's interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/maschine/comments/1w3t8fj/i_designed_a_music_tracker_that_runs_on_the/

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kev2525

Interesting indeed what is possible with AI. I would like to see a fully fledged sequencer like the Toraiz Squid, but with enhanced features. It has a similar form factor and Alpha Theta unfortunately gave up on that sequencer. Having said all that, best of all would be to have an enhanced sequencer running inside the NI software with Elektron style sequencing…

6xes

some nice screen integration!

theres a nice Fasttracker 2 plugin by blamstrain on github VST3/AU that works with Maschine at least with Mac silicon(requires some terminal permissions as the plugin is not signed),

doesnt have the hardware screen integration like the above video…

but you can route the channels to external channels or use Aux's, i was testing it just the other day!

syncs up to DAW tempo or maschine tempo, its just another plugin i've integrated in my Reaper template, i had a little trouble loading it as a VST3 directly inside of ReaperFX,

but found that if i ran Maschine as a plugin inside reaper i could put the fastracker plugin inside the maschine plugin no problem, just not inside Reaperfx slots directly

Fast tracker 2 supports mainly supports .mod & .xm files as well(experimental), which is well suited to Maschine, as you can have multiple instances,

also supports multiple formats as samples, its worth checking out, if you are comfortable with terminal commands etc

6xes

heres the plugin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZWD3gfV5_U

Rilkecat

Wow! amazing implementation of the screens and playability. Will check his reddit. Thanks for sharing!

nateschmold

Holy fricking stromboli… thank you for shouting this out @Jeremy_NI !!

I love Maschine, but i also love trackers, and grew up using em since Fast Tracker 2 in 96, so this has been a dream come true for me to be able to design something ive always wanted. 😃 Ive been cooking up crazy new features for the tracker too --heres the current list:

Here's the current feature list (it has an 8-track live looper that runs alongside the patterns, and loops can be saved to a pad at any time!)

Sequencer

16-track tracker grid, 64 rows, patterns and a song
Chord cells, key and scale, a chord engine on the pads
15 step effects with a lens to read them
Polymeter, pattern loop, selections and block ops
Scenes and a full-screen arranger

Sampler

128 pads in 8 banks, gate or one-shot
Slice, destruct, ADSR, filter, LFO per pad
Record straight to pads, threshold armed
Resample the master into a pad
Wave-record triggers inside the sequence
Synth pads: saw, square, sine, fat

Loopers

8 tape lanes, 1 to 32 bars or FREE
Overdub, feedback, reverse, punch in and out
Print a lane to a pad in one press
Mixed beside the tracks, with EQ, filter, sends and FX

Mixing

16 strips in dB with meters, pan, sends, sweep filter
8-band EQ on every channel and the master
Master EQ, filter and limiter
Mutes and solos on tracks, pads and groups
Undo across pattern, loops and desk moves

FX rack

3 insert slots on every track, lane and the master
Crush, drive, chorus, flanger, phaser, comb, stutter, ducker, transient, ring mod, vinyl, formant, freeze, tremolo, width
DSP CPU load readout

Finishing

Render to disk: song, pattern, selection or range
Mixdown, track stems, loop stems, per-pattern files
44.1 / 48 / 96 kHz, 16 / 24 / 32-float
Project bundles that open with the library gone
MIDI clock in and out, notes in and out, CC learn

The surface

Both screens, every pad, knob and button, capacitive knobs
Themes and grid colours, a list style on every page
An on-screen keyboard for names
Autosave, favourites, tags, drives, exports
A life support screensaver

heres a live stream i did where i was showing off a bunch of the new features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlyWf9o3s0

macchinista

Amazing work 👏 even the looper by itself is already bonkers. Looking forward to see and try the finished app (hopefully I'll have my Maschine fixed by then!)

nateschmold

Thanks so much! Yeah im really proud -- it feels like my years of deeply exploring other gear has finally paid off cuz i can actually implement my fav parts of everything into one workflow hahah 😃 its dizzying

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