Michael Lawrence

Jake Robinson, post: 30725, member: 2223 wrote: So you use the two channels on the S2 for volume, EQ, etc. for decks A and B, and then just control the use the faders on the F1 for those decks’ levels?

I actually have a soundcad as well . Komplete Audio 6. Which I use for routing as well. But yeah for the most part the two channels are for decks a b. The F1 I only use on Decks C and D and I use the faders to control the volume for only those decks. I was going to use the F1 and midi map it but its strength i think is for samples, layering etc; so I mapped my mikro instead to control all my cue points, effects, and loop recorded.

I started off with the first vestax spin and used djay algorithm. Then bought a vesrax pad one for finger drumming. Thats as far as it went lol.

I now have the S2 and F1 using Traktor. Got the Maschine Mikro for production and a KA6 as my sound card. KRK Rokit 5’s, Crane Stand Pro and Moda Cross Fade LP 2’s.

I think I am good for now….the last piece of gear I would get would probably be a midi keyboard but not for a while. Still so much to learn with the NI gear.

Terry_42, post: 29416, member: 1843 wrote: Well for the mixtrack just get the one from the Numark site for Traktor and you should be fine.

Maschine is an individualist performance tool and works well with Maschine Software only. There is no need to map it to the Maschine software, you need to programm it however what it should do. That however nobody can tell you, I have no idea what you want to play with Maschine as the possibilities are A LOT. So my best bet would be to go to youtube and search for some Maschine tutorials. Maschine is no easy tool to master.

Actually maschine is also a midi controller and can be mapped to any software the has mapping capabilities. I have the maschihine mikro with the f1 and an s2 using traktor. However I do agree with Terry in that it works the best with the Maschine software.

have you looked into the basic maschine mapping for traktor that comes with maschine? It has control over transport and 8 cue points each for Deck A and B. Im sure that can help if your into playing around with your hot cues as you mentoned.

Check some youtube videos and there are some where you can sync the maschine clock to the master of traktor so everything you do in maschine is always in sync with the master tempo in traktor (that is if you want to start using some loops in maschine w/ traktor). I also like using maschine as live input into a traktor deck. This way you use vsts in maschine then route into traktor for a whole world of possibilities.

also check out the website maschinetutorials.com it has amazing tutorials on maschine. Soem are free and some a paid subscription. I pay for it and it is by far the best site to learn everything you need about maschine.

I think before you starting thinking on how to use maschine with all your other gear its important to see what it can do as a stand alone unit then you will have a much better idea of how you want to use everything together.

I’m so Ready! Do we have cut off day yet so we can get a list of people who are all actually interested?

DjBullet, post: 28565, member: 1964 wrote: hahaha Terry_42 i know what you mean but actually if you look at a couple of videos on youtube many people do use Maschine to trigger effects/samples/loops and stuff with traktor.
Buffaz i did thanks for the advice iv gone with the maschine it seems more interesting!
KierenJames hahaha in one of ean goldens videos they said that maschine is going to work the remix decks very soon so dont stress about it 🙂

Agreed! I have a maschine mikro and intially I started using it with maschine softtware just for production but when I got more comfortable with mapping in traktor I started using it as a midi controller. I use it to control my cue points and I have assigned effect combinations to different buttons while in midi mode. You can pretty much do what you want with it, very versatile which is why I like it because you def. get more bang for your buck! Would have been good if you picked it up while it was on sale this past whille.

If you wanted it to trigger yoour samples, as mentioned by Kiieren James above you would have control of the top row of samples. Keep in mind you will need to work with the controller manager in th NI folder to ge tthe functions working properly.

I’m sure when the new maschine and mikro come out they might just permanently lower the price on the olde rmodels.

if you have any free buttons on your controller why now just assign one of them to decrease the bass only and another button or modifier to increase it. That way you know that the one single button will always decrease the bass and alternatively when you want to bring it back up use can use another button or modifier to bring it up.

Even if you want to kill the bass completely and bring a new track in you can just assign a button to completely kill the low end (toggle mode so you can turn it on and off)…just make sure to turn it back on when your using the deck again

I’m not at home to look at the controller manager in traktor but possibly even setting a specifically value to turn the bass down when you press it once and then when you press it again it resets to zero.