Maschine

Native Instruments (http://www.native-instruments.com) has introduced its new series of Maschine Expansions, download libraries for its groove production system.

All expansions provide new drum kits and instruments as well as pre-programmed patterns created by sound designers and producers, and feature a distinctive take on a contemporary sound aesthetic or musical style. The series debuts with Vintage Heat and Transistor Punch, created by Goldbaby and Surround SFX.

Vintage Heat was created by sampling artist Goldbaby, and specializes on warm, saturated sounds The library includes 50 kits with analog, digital and acoustic origins, complemented through 50 matching synthesizer sounds ranging from bass and leads to brass, pads and strings.

Transistor Punch takes its inspiration from contemporary European club music, and provides sounds for a wide range of electronic styles. Created by renowned sound designer Denis Gögdak of Surround SFX, the library contains 30 c drum kits as well as 50 new bass and lead sounds that integrate with the factory library of Maschine.

Vintage Heat and TransistorPUNCH are available for download purchase in the NI Online Shop for US$59 each.

Article source: http://www.macnews.com/2011/04/15/native-instruments-announces-maschine-expansions

Maschine 1.6 update is live, comes with Komplete Elements!

The 1.6 update is available for Maschine, this is the official update and not a beta.

You can download it via the service center.

It also includes komplete 7 elements for free!!

What’s all included in the Maschine 1.6 update?

• VST and Audio Units support from within MASCHINE – use instrument or effect plug-ins from NI or 3rd parties!
• Plug-in parameters are auto-mapped to the knobs on the controller
• Pad-link: trigger multiple sounds by just hitting one pad (incl. master/slave functionality)
• Swing per sound: swing now also available for individual sounds
• Enhanced drag and drop of internal audio, as well as from the operating system
• Redesigned Module slots allowing extended effect chains
• Mapping improvement when dragging multiple samples
• Renaming objects: clips, scenes and samples can now be renamed inside MASCHINE
• Enhanced drag and drop of audio inside MASCHINE
• Extended audio channels: Now 16 stereo outputs
• Duplication improvements: copy sound and its pattern events
• Full 64-bit compatibility (incl. VST Mac) and 64 bit REX import
• Free KOMPLETE ELEMENTS: Over 1,000 instruments & effect sounds with 3 GB samples

Download the update today! Just login to the service center to download and install.

This update is FREE for all registered Maschine users.

If you are looking to use Maschine and Ableton Live together there are a few thing you need to do before you can have any fun. Here are the steps to copy the files necessary to make all this technical stuff work. It shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes to do this as long as you have Ableton Live installed with no issues and Maschine installed with no issues. Here we go:

Controller Editor

1. Open Controller Editor
2. On the right hand side, under ‘Templates’ select Ableton Live
3. Close Controller Editor

Required Files to be Copied

1. First you have to copy some Native-instruments files. Here are the files and their locations:
2. C:/ Program Files/Native Instruments/Controller Editor/Template Support Files/Ableton Live 8/
3. Copy the Maschine_Controller folder
4. Navigate to C:Program Files/Ableton/Live 8.0.4/Resources/MIDI Remote Scripts
5. Paste the Maschine_Controller folder

Ableton Live Configuration

1. Open Ableton Live
2. Go to Preferences> MIDI Sync Tab
3. In the Controller Surfaces area at the top, click the first drop down arrow and select ‘Maschine Controller’
4. In the Input select Maschine Controller In
5. In the Output select Maschine Controller Out

MIDI Ports

1. In the Midi Ports section, hi light the boxes for Track and Remote on the Maschine Controller MIDI Input Port

Files & Folder Tab

1. Click on the File / Folder Tab.
2. Halfway down the page you will see the VST Plug-Ins section.
3. Ensure that your VST Plug-In Custom Folder is pointing to your VST folder (in most cases: C:Program Files/Vstplugins or your >>DAW’s program folder<</Vstplugins).
4. If not, click browse and navigate to those mentioned folders and select your ‘Vstplugins’ folder.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Rescan.
7. After the scan, close Ableton Live and then re-open it.

You are done!

Maschine is now set up to work as a controller in Ableton Live.

What to do on Maschine?

1. On Maschine, press and hold SHIFT and then press MIDI/CONTROL (on the top left of Maschine’s hardware)
2. Because you preselected the Ableton Live Template in the Controller Editor and you performed the above steps (coping the files and folders and configuring Ableton live), when you put Maschine into ‘MIDI/Control’ mode the pads, stop, play and volume, record, mute and solo and much more can be manipulated from the Maschine hardware. That is another tutorial.

Have fun!

Understanding sounds, samples, and keygroups!

This is part of a series of maschine tutorials that helps people moving over from the Akai MPC to Maschine.

This free Maschine tutorial explains some of the terms and ideas that may seem different, but can really be quite similar if they are explained properly.  This video deals with sounds, samples, and keygroups as it relates to coming from the MPC.

Source Post by SaintJoe

The newest public beta has been released, Thomas posted the link in the public beta forum

A new public beta version has just been released.

This version includes the following improvements:

• Missing notes and double triggers fixed
• Sync issues with AU plugin in Logic and Live fixed
• Crash on closing plugin window fixed
• Pattern redraws and other GUI errors fixed
• Event movement in unquantized grids fixed
• Velocity values for pad-link recordings fixed
• Various other fixes

You can download the new public beta version from the same page as the first one:

http://www.native-instruments.com/in…?id=publicbeta

Thanks for all your continued help with the testing!

Regards, Thomas

Here are some more drum packs I have been putting together on Maschine. You need Maschine 1.6 beta installed for these to work:

Soundpack 3
Soundpack 4
Soundpack 5
Soundpack 6
Soundpack 7
Soundpack 8
Soundpack 9
Soundpack 10
Soundpack 11
Soundpack 12
Soundpack 13

Native-Instruments™ Maschine™ tutorials:
http://www.mastermaschine.com

The revision that will take Native Instruments ultra-controller into new territory for artist to what to break away from the PC with the much anticipated plugin hosting feature that has even this synth geek is eying one.

Native Instruments has announced the details on version 1.6 of Maschine, its groove production studio for PC and Mac.

What’s New In Maschine 1.6:

• Plugin hosting for VST/AU instruments and effects.
• Increased number of effect slots (3 per Sound, 4 per Group, 4 on Master).
• New “Pad Link” function with 8 pad groups and Master/Slave option.
• Individual swing setting per sound.
• Clip naming.
• Sample renaming.
• Improved scene duplication.
• External audio input/output increased to 16 stereo channels.
• Improved Drag&Drop mapping for samples.
• Improved Drag&Drop from OS for Maschine files and audio files.
• Drag&Drop rearrangement of scenes and patterns.
• Snap-to-grid when moving events via mouse.
• VST plugin operation under Mac OS X 64bit.
• Rex import under Mac OS X 64bit.

Maschine 1.6 is available now as a public beta.
DOWNLOAD IT TODAY!

JKDilla doing a quick follow up to the great song mode tutorial done by SaintJoe, this one using the hardware controller. If this is new to you I suggest checking out his first! Link below the video… Enjoy!

SAINT JOE’S VIDEO

The Maschine 1.6 update will include the following improvements:

New and improved features:

• Plugin hosting for VST/AU instruments and effects
• Increased number of effect slots (3 per Sound, 4 per Group, 4 on Master)
• New “Pad Link” function with 8 pad groups and Master/Slave option
• Individual swing setting per sound
• Clip naming
• Sample renaming
• Improved scene duplication
• External audio input/output increased to 16 stereo channels
• Improved Drag&Drop mapping for samples
• Improved Drag&Drop from OS for Maschine files and audio files
• Drag&Drop rearrangement of scenes and patterns
• Snap-to-grid when moving events via mouse
• VST plugin operation under Mac OS X 64bit
• Rex import under Mac OS X 64bit

More Info: http://native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80682