Maschine 3 - Requests & tips for improvements

Sunborn
Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,058 mod
edited November 23 in Maschine
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This discussion was created by comment split from: About your ideas for Maschine 3, where at least half of the comments was irrelevant (something that i find extremely annoying in conversations).

This thread is exclusively about Maschine 3 software.
NOT about Maschine + or any other hardware or software, neither about complains or problems.

So please keep it clean and focused on the specific subject. Or, simply go to the thread mentioned before. Thank you.

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  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,058 mod

    Few tips for improvements that can make our life easier ☺️

    1- More flexibility on NKS creation

    Please release some of the Maschine CP (Developers edition) features. Especially the ability to create .previews when you save NKS presets.

    2- More keyboard shortcuts and the ability to create our own.

    For example: A command for Save as (not the one on the main menu!), when you load a VST and you want to save presets as NKS. It is so annoying and time consuming, that you need to leave the plugin and use 3 mouse clicks every time, to access it...

    save as NKS.jpg

    In the above case, an "Assign keyboard shortcut" (for example Alt+S) command, would be great to have.

    In general, the ability to do less things with the mouse, when possible… i start to have a serious problem with my right hand (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) from the extensive mouse use… ☹️

    3- Auto-update current preset name

    When you click the Save as (as in the example above), it would be great to appear the name of the current preset, not the previous one!

    Or perhaps a command like "copy/paste preset name". In too many cases, we have to write every single preset name by hand…

    preset name.jpg

    4- Fast mouse wheel scrolling in Preferences Library/Plugins

    fast scroll mouse wheel.jpg

    Mouse wheel scrolling is extremely slow in that areas… If you have huge lists and you want to assign (for example) default templates, it is like a… turtle vs snail Marathon! 🤪

    5- Bring back full screen view

    It is really not necessary for a desktop but it's a "must" for laptop computers!

    That's all (for now), thank you.

  • Maxray
    Maxray Member Posts: 84 Helper

    Agreed… and those are some great ideas, btw!

    I had a few myself that I've posted on different threads before. One of them being, to make Controller Editor the main MIDI Setup software for all of the NI Hardware. Additionally, to refashion it to be more like a Reaktor interface or GUI, where we can make connections and even share connections between devices. It would make life easier when we're using our NI Hardware, like Komplete Kontrol and Maschine, in other Programs. It would also allow us to save our various setups as Template files, such as production, live performance and external controller templates.

  • DiosGnosis
    DiosGnosis Member Posts: 196 Helper

    Polish. I've encountered some graphical inconsistencies in the GUI, CPU spikes not seen in MSW2, latency under same circumstances as in M2SW, but M2SW has no latency, and some overall rough edges when it comes to VST3 compatibility/stability. Almost all of these issues are from Plugin Alliance/Izotope plugins, partners of NI.

    In my humblest of opinions, before moving forward, fix the foundation. If I'm running the show at NI (ha!), I'd focus efforts on ensuring M3SW is a solid foundation to build from. Structural integrity is so crucial. Ask the Three Little Pigs.

  • Nikal Might
    Nikal Might Member Posts: 28 Member

    Move the plugin menu to the browser, so we can use the search function without having to create a preset for every single plugin. If I want to add a plugin via the software, I have to click the plus button, scroll through hundreds of vendors and then select a plugin. If the vendor is near the end eg Waves, it's really slow and painful. If I want to avoid it in the future, I have to save the default preset and use it to search. The nested menu system feels quite archaic compared to the browser which is right there.

    It would also be nice to have a search function or some kind of shortcut accessible from the hardware to cut down on scrolling. You get the same problem as with the software menu.

  • Blotj
    Blotj Member Posts: 2 Member

    I agree with a lot of update suggestions here, especially stability and full screen. I suspect that we could all add and add countless of these, but in spirit of DiosGnosis's comments on Polish I think I agree with that. UX/UI issues would be where I'd hit first, just to remove overall friction here.

    1 - Add editable Keyboard shortcuts, particularly zoom schemas for the various views.

    Like so many other applications, not just sound, but node graphs, video editors etc, being able to zoom in an out easily with various alt/shift/ctrl + scroll options would make editing generally more fluid and fun.

    2 - Allow vertical scaling of audio tracks, preview waves in samples toggle.

    Sometimes you need to line audio up, but not being able to visually scale in timelines makes this painful. Clips might benefit from this, optionally, too, even a vague preview as one can't easily time one clip relative to another that way.

    3 - Extend note split to clips.

    Unless I'm missing a glaring feature, it's hard to split a clip in arranger, especially long ones.

    4 - Improved lock state management, and automation curves.

    Transitioning lock states is a lovely thing. I'd love to be able to colour and name these clearly — again if this is possible, I missed it. But it feels like the arranger view could do with it's own track to fire these. Or clips could be book-ended with them. I'd love curves in general automation, too, and could see that extending to these. I like the idea of dialing in the overall sound with the current systems as is, and then having control to deploy them in this way.

    5 - Allow sound pallet scaling.

    Similar to the intent that Sunborn was saying. Playbox, for example, loads with a preset then stays that way, even if you pick something else — allowing horizontal scaling of ui here would allow us to decide what we see of a file name. The default truncation is commonly not helpful especially when working with loopcloud, for example. At the least, a tool tip that shows the full name would be helpful on mouse over.

    6 - Tuneable color pallete.

    Plenty of visually impared folks struggling with existing scheme. I like it, personally, but allowing tuneable parameters here is a good idea.

    7 - Piano Roll - Collapse key or highlight it in piano roll.

    For the less musically literate among us, and for the dyslexics who struggle to interpret the keys sideways, some help here would be good. There's also a lot of detail in this view so it would be helpful to pick out the notes we care about.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 4,965 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/195154#Comment_195154

    Thing is the browser and plugin menu serve very different functions. The plugin menu just gives you access to plugins, which won't have params mapped to Maschine (or Kontrol) knobs etc. The browser menu gives you access to everything that is mapped to the NKS standard, not just plugins but also preset banks and sample libraries.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 4,965 mod
    edited December 3
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/192400#Comment_192400

    All great ideas - preview generation would really speed things up and so would getting the preset name from the plugin (where possible)

    Full screen mode is there and works well for me (on Mac) but for some reason it's not working on Windows, I guess due to a bug, I don't see why it would have been deliberately removed, especially just on one platform unless it wasn't working well on Windows.

  • PK The DJ
    PK The DJ Member Posts: 1,914 Expert

    I think NI just accidentally overlooked it on the Windows build.

  • Rilkecat
    Rilkecat Member Posts: 56 Helper

    I find @Sunborn ideas great. The less mouse required the best. I suggest so:

    1- Text Entry Dialog, just like in Maschine+. For all save as screens (either presets or projects)

    2- Fix some old workflow bugs:

    a. Audio Mute gets ON after using Lock. (btw why not include Audio mute on/off for Groups too?)

    b . Volume/Swing/tempo button gets deactivated after entering+leaving Mixer (unlike with Browser/Arranger/Sampling).

    c. SAMPLER: Sample loop on 1-shot does not work, even when LOOP is ON.

    d. Cannot UNPIN Pad mode, Keyboard, Chords, Step.

    Cheers to team!

  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 744 Pro

    the splitting of the 3 sections to allow for independant placement & snap-on(makes for additional vertical sizing options)

    ie.

    Scene/Pattern area

    in/out/plugins

    midi/sampler section

    recall/disabling of the independant sections as & when needed

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