Creative ways to use footswitch Input/Routing

Patrick West
Patrick West Member Posts: 6 Newcomer
edited January 2022 in Maschine

Please, NI Users. Indulge me with the creative ways you are using and implementing a footswitch as controller for your Maschine........

I am running a Mashine MK3 and would ideally like to have the note repeat mapped to a footswitch. What other creative things are people doing with this input?

name is Patrick. I'm an artist. I make music by myself and with friends #sirdubbingsly

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  • Blindeddie
    Blindeddie Member Posts: 1,559 Expert

    Welcome Patrick

    The Maschine Footswitch can only be used for Transport control of the Hardware...not so creative.

    From the Manual:

    (9) PEDAL socket: Allows you to use a footswitch to control the transport in MASCHINE. Note that this is a stereo socket, allowing you to plug in a double footswitch and control the PLAY and the REC buttons in MASCHINE

  • Patrick West
    Patrick West Member Posts: 6 Newcomer

    Thank you kind sir! So that being said. Are any NI users even using this? To any creative or essential live use?

  • sjbradley66
    sjbradley66 Member Posts: 6 Member

    I will use it when I want to loop and am playing at the same time - seems to work well for me. I have a y-splitter (stereo female inputs to one male output) and use two different pedals with that. Works well as long at the y cable is truly stereo (not mono)!

  • Patrick West
    Patrick West Member Posts: 6 Newcomer
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/1197#Comment_1197

    OK. wait! tell me more. How are you using this? I have a maschine mk3 and would love to use it to loop with other external instruments. Are you looping with guitar rig? You have my attention.

  • sjbradley66
    sjbradley66 Member Posts: 6 Member

    All of the looping I do is with internal VSTs within Maschine or Kontakt - although I do know that external instruments can definitely be looped too - I think NI might have a video on that? But the footswitch makes it easy to operate the basic transport buttons (rec / play) and that makes a difference for sure in terms of accessibility. I think it's a bit more complex with looping external inputs and requires more mastery of the sampling features. Good luck with it!

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