I’m new to Maschine hardware and am having an issue that I need help with. I connected my Mikro MK3 to my M4 Mac Mini and am getting horrible latency. The delay in the sound that results from pressing a pad makes it impossible to use. Am I naive to think this was plug-and-play?

The Mikro is connected using the supplied cable via a USB 2.0 and/or a USB 3.0 port and I’m am just using the Maschine app.

I assume I’ve got more than enough processing power and memory, so what gives? Any help is appreciated!!

Hi everyone,

I was trying to plug the mk3 into the aux Channel of the 92.

I did it like this : Line out on maschine > aux 1 with jack câbles

Do someone have an idear about why I cannot have any Sound ? Thanks a lot in advance

Hey I'm looking for any advice to see if its possible to change the note repeat function on the maschine mk3 back to how it functions on the mk2 where you let go of it and it stops. Helps me add a lot of feel to my beats. Thanks.

I have a Maschine MkIII I’m trying to sell; apart from Reverb (already being there), where can I create an announcement? Do rules allow to do it here? I’m not very familiar with this place…

Ive just now sliced up a sample but once I press on the pad the selected slice completely plays from start to finish. I only want it to play as long as Im holding my finger on the pad. Is there any way to do that?

Hi there, i am trying to connect my behringer model d to my maschine mk, and i have been struggling getting sound out of it.

I can get the test tone from the model d out of my maschine phones output, but no oscillator sound.

I am completely lost here, as i am very new to analog synths and the software in general.

Thank you in advance if you have any idea what i can do.

Just got my brand new maschine from amazon - seems like it was used before because the serial key was used and I can‘t activate it. Support seems offline over the weekend.

I‘d love to start testing it over the weekend is there any option to do so without the serial key?

P.S i am a complete beginner

Hi friends, I am a hobbyist musician and beat maker. I already have a 2019 Maschine MK3. But I like collecting music instruments, and I also see that many musicians have multiple samplers/ beat makers. I can see a very reasonably priced used Studio (~$200) on FB Marketplace. I was wondering why people tend to have multiple such instruments and if I should get this if I can afford it or if it does not make sense. Can someone please guide me on this? Thank you so much!

I've been putting a live set together of music I have created and released using my MK3. Since I do not own any DJ hardware, I wanted to see what can be done with Maschine and I'm happy with how it's turning out so far! What do you all think?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFQJA0gxJsp/?hl=en

https://youtube.com/shorts/H5_X3eAqKfs?si=jhU1aA32PGSFF9zy

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but when using Maschine MK3/3.0 with a usb interface, is it possible to route the metronome through the interface’s headphone outputs only rather than the mains? I know you can route it when using the Maschine itself as the interface, but can’t quite find a solid answer about USB interfaces.

I appreciate anyone taking the time to read this. I spent 3 nights sampling and slicing different sections of a song to create a bunch of great patterns and somehow after staying up all night working on it all of the slices in the different patterns I made are changed to the first sample I was using and I can't the patterns/slices to go back to the other sections I had sampled to different pads. Please let me explain better..

I have an old vinyl track loaded into my Maschine + user content with about 5 different sections in it I wanted to sample and slice up. Group 1, pad 1 I loaded the track. In the Sampler I selected the first section I wanted to slice up, I truncated and applied it. Group1, pad 2 I loaded the same track again, selected the next section I wanted to slice up, truncated it, applied it etc. And so on for all five of the sections.

So I have Group 1 with with pads each containing different sections of the song I wanted to slice. I pressed the pad1 Group1, pressed the sampler, the truncated section is there. I went to slicer, sliced it up how I wanted. Then I applied Single Slices one by one to Group 2 pad1, next slice to pad 2 etc. and so on. Now I have Group 2 with all my slices for the first section I wanted to sample.

please not that everytime I made progress I would 'Save As' + 'include samples with project' + delete unused samples' and overwrite the same project... I did this because using so many sample slices I did not want to loose any and I thought this might also save space with all the duplicate instances of the same sample? Maybe this is where I went wrong, I don't know

Ok, I go back to Group 1, select pad 2 (the next section of the track I wanted to slice). I slice it up, apply all the slices individually to pads in Group 3 now etc. And so on.

Fast forward some hours of this process. Now I have 4 Groups. Group 1: the truncated chunks of different sections I wanted to slice. Group 2 - 4: All the slices I made single applied to each pad nearly filling up all the pads in the three groups.

Now I get a BPM for the project, program drums onto Group 5 and start playing the samples over the drums creating many patterns I really like. This is going great. Instead of going to bed I keep going until the sun is nearly coming up and I have about 6 patterns using all these sample slices that are sounding so cool (I am still doing Save As and overwriting the project everytime I get a new one I like)

Only problem is, these samples are from a very old track that clearly was not recorded to a metronome. Even though my BPM is generally correct alot of my patterns are a little bit choppy/gappy sounding because of slight fluctuations in speed from the original sampled source material.

THIS is where I think something went wrong So I started selecting individual slices from the different groups, pressing the Sampler button and using the STRETCH effect to adjust some of the slices to flow more smoothly. I apply the Stretch adjustments as I go. *while I am doing this I notice that the sample is showing the slices not as individual truncated sounds but as a highlighted 'Play selection' (with adjustable values) from the original sections I truncated onto pads in Group 1. I do not understand why because I applied each slice as a single sound to a single pad in another group. But as I am stretxhing one of the lices I notice that the Start and End play range starts to get a little bit off, (I don't understand why because I already made these slices and applied them as Singles before) but I make little adjustments to the start and end values to get them back to how they should be.

NOW when I go back to play some of the patterns of sample skices I already had perfected, they are not playing the right slices, they are trying to olay slices from only the very first section/instance I cut and sliced from. All the patterns I made are kike this now except from here and there randonly one of the slices is still from the correct section but overall the entire thing is messed up. WTF??

I do not save anything, I load the project again from the last time I saved it, I DISCARD any changes but when I play it it is still like that. I am very upset. I go looking through the browser, in the same user content subfolder where the original track was that I sampled from I can see the truncated ibstances saved 'Track1 -1', Track1 -2' etc and so on. All of of the sections are there but one or to of them are replaced with a duplicated of the first section I truncated.

I am confused and defeated. It is now well into the next norning. I know I will have to start again more or less. I know I have made a mistake but I don't know what it is. I would love to figure out what mistake I made so I never make the same mistake.

Thank you so much if you got this far. I really appreciate. I really hope someone out there can point to where I made the mistake.

Long story short, Maschine 2 was glitchy AF on my new silicon MacBook, so I just started investing and trading around other gear. OP-1, OP-1 Field, Polyend Tracker Mini, Tracker+, 1010 Blackbox, Roland 505mk2, SP-404 mk2, op-Z, Roland P6, Digitone, koala sampler. Fuck just seeing it written out…

Anything that wasn’t jiving with me I either returned within the return window, or if it was used gear I ended up trading it away for something else.. always with the idea that once I found that ‘perfect replacement’ i could go dawless. I wouldn’t need Maschine anymore. I felt like there had to be something ‘better’ out there for me, despite spending the last 10 years in Maschine & producing tons of tracks and multiple albums in it.

When Maschine 3 came out I tested it out and it ran great on my computer so I had in the back of my mind that maybe I should just try getting back into it. But I was already gear deep at this point — I have been messing with the OP-XY heavily lately - producing almost a beat a day since I got it in early December.

Well today I sat down to really just ‘try’ Maschine again and it was like night and day to my experience this past year. A years worth of experimentation and fun, but always bumping up against limits and quirks: either sampling workflows that were a pain or chopping is a pain, or filesystems are buggy or slow, or hitting a ceiling on how much further I could take a track etc etc — always limits. But then here in Maschine I feel unlimited. I feel like I’ve been training underwater for the past year and now I have all this experience with ways to make sounds and create my own samples, and I can marry my fav workflows (op1 field + opxy!) onto Maschine for a MUCH easier time turning things into actual polished songs.

Maschine feels like a super power at this point and I’m really grateful for what it is. Yeah it has limitations but let me tell you… every single thing I tried over the past year…. And I tried a lot of fucking shit…. Everything has limitations… you know what seems to have the least amount of limitations?

Maschine, baby. I’m back!!

A link to my last album I produced entirely in Maschine… before the ‘great experimentation’ began:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4MxazhT1aS4mutXsKYsLMn?si=YJMfwhcCRJm76EOdS4Gzig

See title. Simple enough. Most of my sessions are in idea mode without any sequenced arrangement...mainly because the process feels too labor some.

Does anybody know of any hacks that make arranging your beat fast for you? I'm especially interested in any tips that allow you to arrange "on the fly" without looking at the screen (hands on device)

Hello everyone, I've been trying to find a stand that can fit both the maschine and one traktor x1, but all the laptop stands on amazon are way to small to fit both. If someone has a link to a stand that is reasonably priced and works well please share!

Hi,

Is there a way to duplicate scenes and have unique patterns in the scene?

I noticed the duplicated scenes have the same patterns now, it used to be as simple as just duplicating the scene.

Hey guys, new to Maschine all together here with a recently purchase MK3 and Komplete 15. I had been using Keylabs 49 MK3 with Analog Lab V and decided I wanted to give Maschine a go. I do like it, however my feelings on it are now mixed while using it and learning how this particular piece of hardware work, since reading most peoples reactions to the "updated Maschine 3" and the colab with Akai, as well as having trouble getting some VST plugins to work. I searched google a multitude of times to find how to use my Analog Lab V as a VST and have gotten as far as being able to choose it but then I get stuck with the first thing that loads in Analog lab V and no option to change the instrument or sound within the VST. Is there something else I need to point the plugin path to or is it just incompatible, and since I'm new to the hardware and software I'm just missing something?

Edit: Grammer and spelling

I hope I labeled the title correct but I wonder if down the line someone or a group of people would be able to make updates or adjustments to stuff on Maschine sorta like I guess a JJOS . I don't know how long Native will support Maschine and if so it would be cool for the Maschine to still live on somehow. I guess it's possible but it would take a dedicated person or group of people.

Hey! I will ask this question on both subs. I have couple years of experience in Ableton and that’s a daw of my choice. On the hardware side I have just the launchkey mini and launchpad mini, both mk2.

I started lately using Koala Sampler and it brought me back to the world of music production because of its easy-to-grab workflow. That’s why I decided that I need a controller to update my workflow and spice it up.

I know that both have their own software, but they can also be used as VSTs on Ableton, and also I could just transfer my projects manually.

I’m not interested in any particular genre to make, I like to experiment myself, so some days I make jungle, some days house, then hiphop, sample based, ambient…

I have read a lot of reviews and watched a ton of videos as well but can’t decide. I’ve found both for around same price in my area brand new. I want a device with which I can get ideas quickly out of my head to the daw and finish the project later. Also compact size is important to me as well, because I am going between cities.

What do you think are the pros and cons for me thinkikh of the both controllers?

when i use the maschine studio, with a focus rite interface it's always crashing, when recording with a mic. i changed interfaces and it still crashes. when it crashes i hear these glitchy crisping sounds and then i can't hear the mic anymore. help please. thanks

As you may remember I started selling off my maschine gear to go to Logic …

So far I’m 1xjam 1xmk3 1xmikro mk3 sold

I’ve been playing around with logic Live Loops but found the issue that it looks like I need a maschine to control the maschine vst and a KK keyboard to control , komplete kontrol as vsts in logic

Seriously why can’t maschine control KK .. absolutely crazy !

But any in to my main point

So as I’m in trying new things mode I downloaded bitwig …. So this is basically maschine software but a version that actually works right ? Seems just natural for a maschine user … hey surely my left over mk 3 and jam .. work flawlessly with it …?

They actually look like bitwig hardware ….so has anyone got an mk3 and Jam launching the clips in bitwig .. would be amazing live .. and I can keep my jam ….

Hello all, I'm in the process of selling my maschine mk3 and I'm a little confused on the license transfer. When on the license transfer page on NI, it shows that the license for KOMPLETE 11 SELECT for MASCHINE MK3 is not transferable for whatever reason, but the license for the MASCHINE MK3 HW is. Does the MASCHINE MK3 HW license provide the buyer with maschine 3.0 and what ever that software comes with or am I only able to sell the maschine mk3 and just transfer the serial code to a buyer and they'll have to buy software to get started making music?

Just wondering is anyone else constantly getting this ever since the update to 3.0? I’m getting highly irritated by having to close the entire software down then reopening just to get to the project.