Newbie - trying to use Maschine Studio as a drum pad in Ableton

coelevationcreations · 2025-03-31T03:14:13+00:00

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Hi,

I'm completely new to all of this, so I really hope someone can help, and speak to me like they're talking to a five year old. laughs

I've got a Maschine Studio (bought in 2016-2017) and Ableton Live 10 Suite on macOS Sequoia, and access to Kontakt 6, 7, 8. I want to be able to work inside Ableton, and use a drum VST like Abbey Road drummer or Studio Drummer, and lay down a drum track using the Maschine Studio pads.

Broadly, I'm struggling to use the Maschine Studio simply as a midi controller for Kontakt instruments. I have no problems mapping independent Ableton sounds to the Maschine to use Maschine as a midi controller.

When I load up something like Abbey Road drummer (or any other instrument for that matter), the pads on the Maschine (when Pad Mode is enabled) play some sounds, but I have no idea which sounds and how to specify that I want a certain pad to play a certain sound. How can I get access to map the abbey road sounds to specific pads?

Thanks so much!

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coelevationcreations

Hi,

I'm sorry, I'm seeing that under Options on the instrument, I can set the pad, and for some reason when I spun the wheel on the right hand side of the Maschine Studio, now I am getting sound of the pads and able to pick my pads. Sorry for the spammy post!

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