No i just made a pattern out of the samples via the step editor.
Then i routed the sounds on a channel of my soundcard/mixer(xone 4d) so i could fade them, and then change the step pattern on the fly with the maschine.
Is it possible to route external soundcard input into a deck in traktor and use the traktor effects on it? That would be perfect.
Oh and here we go, just got the Email from Beatport:
Introducing Beatport Parts, Loops & Stems
Link
This would be perfect to do with the Maschine, jump between songparts live and niceley and/or even change them live.
You probably could do that using jack, but why route external, just use internal.
I have to use the maschine on a second laptop anyway,
cause of performance issues when i run it together traktor.
Whats to see at that link?
Thanks for the comments guys. Are the browser menu and soundbank catatories easy to use. I mean is it easy to find a sound simular to the one in your head? This is one af the things NI brags about.
The short description is:
Define your sound. Download high quality parts to create live remixes
and edit music from your favorite artists.
Have to check it out later…
Yeah but whats the point of using pre-made drum (or other) loops when producing with the Maschine??
Hey has anyone had any experience with hooking up a keyboard to the Maschine, i’m finding the keyboard mode on the Maschine controller insufficient.
No my point was, instead of playing a track as an mp3, play the arrangement with the maschine. And yeah of course i would use my own beats with the maschine most of the time. But i think it could be nice to play a “famous” song with it.
I just plugged my midi keyboard in and selected it as input in standalone mode. As a VST in Ableton, I had to select the midi input on the Maschine channel, and Ableton midi or some such from the plugin.
haha that’s exactly what I’d have to do!! or else I’d be up all night putting off the studying, telling myself I’d get down to business in half an hour. Smart move to get it out of sight for a while!
So how is the Maschine treating you guys? Anybody got some some Maschine produced tracks/loops/beats/scenes they want to share?
yo how is the sampler on maschine, can i change the bit depth on it, also, i am a hip hop head and will be using it to sample and stuff, and i like making nice clean music with perfect chops, but i also like to make my sample dirty and gritty sometimes, how would you say the work flow is on it also.
cause by the end of the summer either i will get maschine or a mpc-2000xl
Last weekend i was confident enough to use the Maschine in my DJSet for the first time. I was running the Maschine Software and Traktor on one Laptop,
performancewise i had no problems, which i wasn’t sure about.
Using the MIDI-Clock from Traktor to Sync both apps worked super accurate.
So the foundation to let it rock was given.
I had fun adding vocals to tracks in traktor, and change them on the fly.
And playing full tracks on it its a whole new exerience for me.
Jump easyly between parts, adjust or remove single instruments,
so many possibilities.
Now the negative parts:
I am sad to say it, but it is impossible to create a whole track live.
Because loading a sample, or instruments is causing glitches or breakdowns of the sound.
So you got to have your whole instruments prepared.
If you want to load a new track into it, it takes ages too load them, and sometimes it crashes, or is causing traktor to play jumpy.
Additionaly it sets the volume on another level and you got to it adjust again.
The Solution for the last negatives will be to use a 2nd laptop to run maschine, but the glitches when loading instruments/samples will stay.
But still, i love the Maschine so intuitive, it just makes fun playing it.
[QUOTE]Last weekend i was confident enough to use the Maschine in my DJSet for the first time. I was running the Maschine Software and Traktor on one Laptop,
performancewise i had no problems, which i wasn’t sure about.
Using the MIDI-Clock from Traktor to Sync both apps worked super accurate.
So the foundation to let it rock was given.[/QUOTE]
May I ask which platform you use and what you are using as a virtual midi interface?
I am using LoopBe30 on the Vista (32-bit) platform. When I sync to Maschine, it’s BPM fluctuates all over the place and never stabilizes until I stop the track in Traktor (adjusting the offset does not help at all). I was initially thinking, “hmm, beatgrid must be off…” but I’ve tightened that down as much as possible and still have the same result.
Now of course, you are using a Mac then that will explain everything. 