for me Reason's Kong drum designer is still one heck of an instrument. Yah, I confess: I left that in on purpose in my previous screenshot 😎 since this week I have a new #2 backup DAW, namely FL Studio which now officially complements my "power trio" of Live (+ Push), Maschine (+ Komplete UC) and FL Studio. Part II (apparently the maximum length of a post is rather short on this forum 😖) Playing Live using Maschine!?īefore I had my Maschine I used an Akai MPD24 and although I can easily and honestly state that the pads on Maschine are so much better you will never hear a negative comment from me about the MPD24 because that thing was awesome in its own right as well.īack then I heavily relied on the combination of Live + Reason but Reason has fallen out of my grace a bit ever since they dropped ReWire. Next transpose your signal by 12 steps and you can now easily play Maschine while using your Push: So select the Maschine chain on our instrument rack and then add the "Scale" MIDI effect in front of the Maschine VST device. Fortunately there is an easy solution: because we're 3x4=12 pads too high we simply need to transpose our MIDI signal. This fooled me at first, and I happen to know that this confused others as well.
If only the top row of our Push drumpad matches the Maschine pad, then how is transposing the entire pad going to help us? It won't. However, this only applies to outgoing data: Maschine doesn't rely on notes like Live does but uses MIDI channels. yes and no :) If you enable Pad mode on the Maschine you'll notice that C3 is the root note (or base key) for every pad you play. See, the Live drumrack goes from C1 to D#2 whereas Maschine goes from C3 to. So much for standards 😧Īt first glimpse this may look like an easy fix: just transpose your drumrack using the Push touchstrip and you're done, right? Errr, no. If you now start playing your Push you'll notice that only the top 4 buttons react: these correspond with the lower 4 buttons on the Maschine. It doesn't have any noticeable effects, but it can save you from embarrising situations should you ever by accident drag & drop something onto the drumrack and then wonder why Maschine suddenly plays 2 sounds at once 😓 The option will now be visible on the left display:Īlso be sure to disable the drumrack by making sure the speaker icon isn't yellow. Now enable the 'Input' section either by pressing the 4D controller left one time, or by using the white buttons above the right display (press "left" one time).Then select 'Group' by pressing the 2nd white button above the left display.Press the "Channel / MIDI" button in the top left corner.But we can fix that! From behind the Maschine controller In other words: you'll play the same sound but using different pitches. by default you will only be able to play the currently active pad as if it were in instrument mode. I can reach it if I bend over a bit, but it would be a lot easier if I could also play the Maschine using my Push controller, this would make it a lot easier to test things. My Maschine on the other hand is sitting on another table next to my desk. My Push is sitting right next to my keyboard on my desk, so it's very accessible for me. In my guide I'll be limiting myself to the standard Maschine library and for this example I've loaded the 808 kit, which is a personal favorite of mine. It doesn't matter if you have another track selected on Push or if the Maschine track isn't even armed: as soon as you start playing stuff on your Maschine it'll be heard. When you drag the Maschine VST onto Live it'll create a new track and from that moment on you'll be able to 'do' things behind the Maschine controller, fully "separated" from Live itself.
not too sure if non-Live users will find a use for it, but even so: most of my tips and tricks will also apply to some other DAW's as well, so there's that. this thread is fully focussed around Live & Maschine so.
Thing is: I'm passionate about (soft) synths and for me Push + Maschine go hand in hand, my whole home studio is focussed around it and yah, sometimes I can get carried away )Īlas. Unfortunately my old guide also contained a lot of excited rambling which was informative but at the same time I also think I overdid it a bit.
ABLETON PUSH LIVE PERFORMER PRESET PDF
This is a new version of a guide I once wrote on the old forum and one which I've been busy trying to re-write in Word so that I could share a PDF version.
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