

Using Ableton as the main DAW and Maschine as the idea sketcher. Only gripe is whenenver Ableton does an update it tends to erase the NI controller Maps as they aren't designed by Ableton but by NI and you have to recopy them in the Ableton folder.Ģ. I believe NI has walkthroughs on setting this up. The Maschine controller is actually pretty decent for Live. This is probably the most rewarding method especially if you don't own a good all purpose Ableton controller like Push. Using Maschine controller as an Ableton controller. There are a few ways to integrate Maschine into Ableton.ġ.

The tutorials i've found have only gotten me so far and I cant seem to map midi from maschine into ableton. And sometimes Live updates have broken those scripts (but not lately).Ĭookie444 wrote:Hello! Im looking to integrate maschine 2.3 with ableton 9.7.5. They've gone through a few versions, each with a lot of features but always kind of changing the approach slightly. But that's only for My needs, and I'd understand if people had other ways they wanted to integrate it.Īs a MIDI controller in Live, NI gives a very nice template with their Controller Editor, often with an instruction PDF.

It's when people want to be able to do many of these at once and quickly that it becomes a headache for them.įor myself, I simply look at Maschine as a vst Groovebox/arranger which can hold its own on a single channel. There are a lot of things about Maschine which make any of these functions possible and easy. And then want audio clips from Maschine and want control of both audio fx in Maschine or audio fx as channels run out of Maschine and through Live.Īnd they'll often come up with a lot of ideas in Maschine and then either want to export a loop as a full mix or as individual parts.

People often want Live channels to send and receive patterns but also want to be able to make patterns inside Maschine. It's when people want to integrate Maschine more into Live where things get tricky. As a midi controller, the NI offerings from their software are fine.
