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  • MaxPtah
    MaxPtah Member Posts: 7 Member

    Learned this while just playing around and trying to figure out using Lockstates. Ended searching and seeing Red Means Recording video on it and learned a lot more. But this is a tip on how I use lockstates to arrange songs on the fly:

    https://youtu.be/Jpw91CX6D0Y

    and here's a bonus one on my favorite expansions for Maschine:

    https://youtu.be/o6yfdomLOpU


  • Trekkie
    Trekkie Member Posts: 36 Member

    Here's my tip. This YouTube channel is hands down some of the best Mashine Mk3/+ content out there.

    https://www.youtube.com/@MusicMemor

    He also has a class/video series teaching how to use it, and the flash card section is worth the price alone. Ever wondered 'how do I do this thing'? he has flash cards for every thing. Broken down by category/type, including some quiz features to help you memorize. The most under-rated Mashine Specific YouTube channel out there. Only about a year old too so a lot of recent content.

    Completely unsponsored from what I can tell. It has helped me immensely learn the ins and outs of things I didn't grasp yet. Even breaks down a full performance using the Mashine in most recent video.

  • Chevy R
    Chevy R Member Posts: 5 Member

    Specifically for arranging:

    Turn off pattern link! When you duplicate a Scene it will also duplicate the associated patterns. This is incredibly handy for expanding on themes from one Scene to the next. I use it in several different ways:

    Slight variations

    Subtractive arrangements (dropping out elements)

    Adding new Elements

    Transition FX

    -rolls, ratches, SFX etc.

  • anzbert
    anzbert Member Posts: 46 Helper
    edited November 2024

    The Digitakt 2 introduced a Comb Filter and me and others quite liked it. After a bit of research, I found out that Maschine and even Maschine Plus standalone had a comb filter all along 🤦‍♂️

    Once you realise that a Flanger is basically a comb filter, once you just set the MOD value to zero, it's pretty straightforward. That removes the Flanger typical movement character of the effect, and makes it static, like the Elektron comb filter. And now you can set the Frequency, Feedback, Invert and Dry/Wet to taste, for some comby sound design :)

    The Digitakt 2 also has a low pass filter as part of the comb filter. That of course can easily be done by adding a filter effect after the Flanger.

    Have fun :)

  • ArtisanS
    ArtisanS Member Posts: 22 Member

    Don't bother to buy one. Seriously you should be ashamed deep in the red of the quality of Maschine 3.0 update. This is an update that brings few upgrades and nothing but trouble. Now after first bugfix on of the most embarrasing errors, so the dials on Massive X stopped behaving like a dancing freak on steroids (laugable), by the way Funk Guitar behaves still like a freak. But incomplete user interface, either before or after my monitor takes a nap (4070 TI graphics card on a i9 motherboard carrying 64 Gb of memory and 12 Tb of data).

    I'm a fan of NI sounds….Massive X is one of the best wavetable synth in existence, and Reaktor and Kontakt are cool. But Maschine…..nah, next investment in hardware controllers will be a Akai Force and Ableton (which I hate). No choice with this kind of software quality management.

    Greets

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 138 Advisor
    edited December 2024

    REX files work with maschine
    Even tho I’ve use maschine for 10 years , Ive just discovered that Rex files are compatible , tbf it never occurred to me they would be , and back then I didn’t have any, but after tracking down some old 90s jungle sample cds I ended up with those classic breaks in Rex format .
    anyway ….
    drag them to pad , and it auto slices to zone and imports the midi file for correct note placement, super easy to then edit the patterns and make your own version, copy to another sound to add fx to different samples .

    You can drag to group , and it will split the first 16 samples to sound slots, but those breaks generally have more than 16 samples , there are some that can work that way as they are 4 bars that repeat the first bar

  • PK The DJ
    PK The DJ Member Posts: 1,979 Expert
    edited December 2024

    That's great, but REX don't work with the Maschine+ standalone. There's infamously one expansion (Prismatic Bliss) that contains some REX files, and it's not possible to install it on the Maschine+

    Why they didn't test it or make a specific version that worked for standalone I have no idea.

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 138 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/200043#Comment_200043

    Good to know , I hadn’t noticed them included on a expansion, I suppose in that case , you’d import using the software version, save with samples and copy to plus

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