Totally blind having strange issues with audio routing in ableton 12 with maschine 2 please help.

sound warrior
sound warrior Member Posts: 1 Member
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Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well and staying safe 😊 I'm Trey. I'm a totally blind electronic musician located in the UK. I'm running maschine 2 with the mk3 hardware on Mac OS, using both the VoiceOver screen reader and NI Accessibility Helper, I'm running machine 2 in Ableton Live 12. My issue is basically this, I have set up the sounds in maschine so that each sound goes out of a separate output and each output is routed to a separate audio track in Ableton. I can hear sounds 1-6 perfectly fine, however sounds 7-16 are completely silent. This also includes when I try to load sounds and pre-hear sounds from the browser. Because I'm totally blind and the NI Accessibility Helper only gives accessibility through the hardware, I cannot look at the software interface to maybe check a few things. And this is why I'm struggling to figure out what the problem is and how to solve it. Does anybody know what the problem might be and how I could potentially solve it, please? Thank you very much for your help in advance, everyone. Respect and blessings. Trey.

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  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 897 Pro
    edited June 16

    if you have the ableton 12 lite version…you may be hitting the limit of tracks??

    i watched this video… to see the process, and its a whole lot of fussing around with midi channels and audio channels, dragging audio clips into ableton

    it was so painful to watch the video lol…video is approximately 5minutes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jArFsjvPT0
  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 897 Pro

    hopefully someone else will chime in… and provide the necessary information you require…

    i loaded up my ableton live lite version… and 5minutes in …i chucked in the towel

    i hate ableton LOL

  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,729 mod

    It could be many things.

    From the Maschine side, you just need to ensure each Pad Output is going to a different External Channel.

    From the Ableton side you have to configure the 16 Audio Tracks like so:

    1. Input type - Receive Audio Input from the track that has Maschine Plugin loaded, same for all Tracks.
    2. Input Channel - All of the 16 Maschine Outputs, a different one per Track.
    3. Enable "Monitor In" in all Tracks to be able to hear them.

    If any of those 4 steps fail, then you won't get any sound. I dont know if checking any of this is hard or not for someone who is blind.

    If you want Zip an project, upload here as an attachment and I'll inspect what's wrong for you. Cheers.

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