Maschine Stream Deck Profile

Hello,

i only know you can send midi or key commands, some use it for switching articulations in kontakt.

Make your Stream Deck a MIDI controller - YouTube

And there was one user, truesampler, maybe we can find him and ask?

Do you use maschine stand alone or as plugin, then it can maybe make more sense to control the daw with it.

Uwe

Hello, great topic! I've considered buying a Stream Deck or a LoupeDeck Live for Music Software many, many times... both very interesting devices.

The problem with using those with Maschine is a 'profile' won't allow you to do much because Maschine has very few keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) and that's what these devices use so keys trigger events in software, so you never see any built-in profiles (or custom for that matter) out there for Maschine unless it's for very basic stuff.

Another problem is a lot of Maschine's hotkeys depend on what's area/menu is active but the software has no visual indication of whats active, for example the Left/Right arrow keys:

• If the bottom part of MAS is active they select between notes.
• If the middle part is active it toggles between PLUGIN and CHANNEL IO.
• if the upper part is active is select between Groups.

And the only way to activate those areas is thru clicking them with a mouse afaik, so a button on the Stream Deck wont do what you want unless you go and click the area first, if clicking is required we might aswell just use the mouse... 😓

SideShowFX makes some awesome solutions for Stream Deck use with popular DAW's where you can even see info on the tiny screens like track Volume, Pan, etc... like this:

But since Maschine is so limited in the hotkey department, doesn't allow us to map dedicated functions, has a control / scripting API (like Ableton does) or has Mackie/MCU support as an input there's no way that's ever going to be a thing. 🥲

From my research the only way to make it usable is MAS is with a software like Keyboard Maestro which can read information on screen, change the pictures in the Stream Deck dynamically, pretend to be a mouse and click on GUI's, listen and send MIDI, etc... But it's sort of a hacky approach and requires quite a bit of a learning curve.