Sending Midi notes from the maschine (MK3) VST into Ableton

danielvr · 2025-05-20T14:01:39+00:00

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Currently I am able to send Midi from ableton to the maschine and then hear the audio inside of Ableton. But I don't manage to do it the other way around.

When I am on group 1 sound 1 and I write a melody, Then I select MIDI output to host (channel 3), I don't see any midi signal coming into Abelton. I hope this is possible.

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wheter or not I set it from Enable to Auto 1 on the right, I don't get any MIDI into ableton.

I do get Midi from Ableton into the VST when I select the input midi as host, so I think the connection is allright. Is there anyone who got this to work?

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danielvr

I found the Right youtube tutorial via another question on this community site.

Its called:

Maschine Mikro MK3 Recording Chords in Ableton Live 10

By - Maschine tutorials (40.4K subs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xrgUUgsOU

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danielvr

I found the Right youtube tutorial via another question on this community site.

Its called:

Maschine Mikro MK3 Recording Chords in Ableton Live 10

By - Maschine tutorials (40.4K subs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xrgUUgsOU

danielvr

But even though, I am now sending MIDI to Ableton on different midi channels, Ableton only sees it coming from the maschine and does not send it to their seperate midi channels, and both melodies are combined. Any way to set this up correctly?

LostInFoundation

The only thing I can see in your screenshots about how Live is set up is at the very right of the image that the MIDI track has MIDI To set up to Maschine channel 3.

Why?
Where is the instrument you want to be played loaded?

danielvr

I have 3 external synthesizers hooked up from the midi out of the maschine, and then I send the midi back to the maschine. I can make this setup work when I have the maschine application running with Ableton Link and ableton Live, but I would like to have a fader inside of ableton live for the instruments, so I can tune the overall sound off the synthesizers with my other midi controller's fader. That's why I want to route each instrument on a seperate track in ableton.

i.e. I wish I could send the midi data from each specific group into seperate midi channels into Ableton, but now all the midi signals are combined into one midi input.

Verdict: I guess this is mostly just a limitation of ableton. And I should save some money for an analog mixer.

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