Midi Issues

stabmasterflex · 2025-04-10T12:18:59+00:00

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I have 4 keyboards connected to Maschine MK3 and I'm using it as a sort of Dawless Jam sequencer. I'm having issues where notes stick on various keyboards and the only fix is to kill the midi output in maschine to that keyboard by removing the checkbox and then adding it again and the keyboard responds fine. How can i fix this permanently?

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Nyla

Sounds a bit like you have a midi loop happening where both the input and output are enabled. Either that or some cables are too long.

Jeremy_NI

Are the keyboards assigned to the same MIDI channel? What @Nyla said makes total sense, check toyr MIDI prefernces in Maschine, inputs and outputs. Try disabling the outputs for these keyboards.

stabmasterflex

All keyboards are on midi channel 1 but there are separate midi devices for each one meaning each keyboard is named in the midi window. I need input and output running to be able to record and play them back. Wondering about the midi cables. I have to look up max length. I think right now i'm at about 15-20 ft max.

ALDREAD

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/221080#Comment_221080

have you switched off the thur option in the maschine sound channel midi/input settings

Nyla

You cannot run midi in and out simultaneously in the same channel. That will give you midi hang up. Also if you're running 5 pin din midi cables and every keyboard is on the same channel, WITH midi in and out being enabled at the same time, you're probably playing one instrument and hearing the others play at the same time. I can't imagine the craziness that happens in the midi part of whatever pattern you're working on.

Change each keyboard to a different midi channel, only have either midi in OR midi out enabled at a single time. You can't have both on at the same time or you'll get midi hangups and all sorts of problems. What is happening when they're both enabled is you're playing a note from a keyboard, that note goes into maschine and loops right back out to the keyboard you're playing. Even if you lift the note on the keyboard, the keyboard is still sensing the note being played from inside maschine, and because it's still sensing that note from maschine it will keep sounding that note, and because it's sounding that note it's also telling maschine that it's playing that note, and on and on and on in perpetuity.

If you want to record your playing from a keyboard, disable the midi out from maschine. If you wanna hear what you recorded from the midi in maschine, disable midi in and re-enable midi out.

Nyla

Something I should add, you can have 16 channels of midi in and out from the 5 pin cables. That limit is global across all of maschine. With midi over USB it doesn't matter what midi channel that particular device is on, so you can have as many independent midi channels as you could possibly want globally in maschine. You're only limited by the amount of sounds available in your 8 banks of 8 groups. A "sound" can be anything from an NI instrument, a sampler, a plugin, or completely blank with the only information being midi note data + cc and the midi in and out configured to send to a device.

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