Help setting up Midi-Keyboard in Maschine

Performance & Techniques Music Production
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Help setting up Midi-Keyboard in Maschine

Hey Guys
i recently bought a maschine and got an old midiman oxygen 8 from ebay for like 15$ :smiley:, but somehow i can not get it to work inside maschine. i installed the driver, and if i go to audio/midi setup on my macbook it shows up as keystation, and if i test the configuration a sound is played each time i hit a key, which i guess means it is working. however it does not work as a keyboard inside maschine. i went to file->audio and midi settings->midi and turned it to ON. still, nothing happens inside the software when i press a key… i’m stuck at this point, and i couldnt find anything on the web on how to proceed. all the other posts i found are about either the keyboard not showing up in audio/midi setup or not having its input turned on…
help me with you great knowledge guys, would appreciate it a lot!:smiley:
btw i use a 2012 macbook pro, version 10.7.5

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I thought maschine already had pads and stuff for your sounds.. If you wanna use your keyboard you need something like ableton to run it.

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Yeah but it’s really annoying to play chords and melodies on the maschines pads…

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im pretty sure hes wrong, cant remember at the moment what page it was but i remember there being an option, and maschine just automatically assigns input to whatever you have currently selected

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+1

I’ve seen in some youtube videos. can’t recall which one but it is possible and you don’t need ableton to do it.

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I can’t remember exactly but there’s a way to set up which MIDI channel you want each sound to transmit on. Just set up that channel to correspond with the channel the keyboard is operating on.