Maschine Headaches when intserted as VST - any tips?

One easy way to insert Program Change is to use the Event List (not Event Inspector) and do the insert there.
It's actually a pretty convenient way since it's very direct/to-the-point.

There is a good Maschine manual available on the NI forum and I host a copy at :
http://ba-midi.com/stuff/...Quick%20Ref%20V1-3.pdf

This may help you get some of the info you need to work this through.

BTW, you can turn off the '1 bar' countin on Maschine, which is probably why you're hearing that 1 bar delay.

Manuals are our friend

Hi Billy thanks for the PDF - good stuff

I have disabled the 1 bar count in - using "shift rec", still does not make a different

I have something fundementally wrong, and it's driving me nuts!!!

Insert Machine checking the following on the insert dialog
MIDI Source
Synth Track Folder
First Synth Audio Ouput
Synth Property Page

I then press the record btn on Maschine
Enable a midi track to record
Press R on computer keyboard
Sonar counts off and starts recording
The beat cursor in machine starts moving across the selected pattern, however when I press one of the pads, the note is recorded in machine, but I do not hear it until the pattern wraps back around. 

I susspect that has something to do with the MIDI Echo feature you mentioned above but I do not see that on the insert synth page

Any ideas?

Thanks for your input

I use Maschine for some backing/extra drum tracks because of Sonar gives completly no support and good electronic drumkits/drumracks (as Ableton gives).
Maybe because I use some clips made by Maschine in standalone mode, I have no problems with latency and MIDI.

One thing you have to try is - jBridge (external tool) or Bitbridge (inside the Sonar) and "make" Maschine a 64bit plugin.
this helps with lot of plugind for me and  I remember that Maschine is one of them.

TomFerraro


Hi Billy thanks for the PDF - good stuff

I have disabled the 1 bar count in - using "shift rec", still does not make a different

I have something fundementally wrong, and it's driving me nuts!!!

Insert Machine checking the following on the insert dialog
MIDI Source
Synth Track Folder
First Synth Audio Ouput
Synth Property Page

I then press the record btn on Maschine
Enable a midi track to record
Press R on computer keyboard
Sonar counts off and starts recording
The beat cursor in machine starts moving across the selected pattern, however when I press one of the pads, the note is recorded in machine, but I do not hear it until the pattern wraps back around. 

I susspect that has something to do with the MIDI Echo feature you mentioned above but I do not see that on the insert synth page

Any ideas?

Thanks for your input

Tom - did you "Enable MIDI Out" in the Insert Synth Dialogue?  It's definitely on the "Insert Synth" function - toward the bottom of that dialogue screen.

Also- what version of Maschine are you using?

Oh man - it's seems to be a bug in Sonar - I had a one measure count in on the metronome - remove that and life is good  - oh well

Any ideas on pattern changes? I'm inserting patch changes but I don't think I've got machine mapped properly.  Any tips?

musicman100

 

So you are saying instead of using the 64 bit VST use the 32 bit and Jbridge it? Maschine HAS a 64 bit Dll...

I still have problems with bitbidge and jBridge - I have no relevant info/feedback which one is better so I try both.... Sometimes the result is.. mess...

Tom,

I suppose the same is for me, but I wrote about jBridge and Bitbridge in general - I have no clue which one is better and no support / feedback from guys here to help me a little :-/

ba_midi


One easy way to insert Program Change is to use the Event List (not Event Inspector) and do the insert there.
It's actually a pretty convenient way since it's very direct/to-the-point.

There is a good Maschine manual available on the NI forum and I host a copy at :
http://ba-midi.com/stuff/Maschine%20HW%20Quick%20Ref%20V1-3.pdf

This may help you get some of the info you need to work this through.

BTW, you can turn off the '1 bar' countin on Maschine, which is probably why you're hearing that 1 bar delay.

Manuals are our friend

Thanks for the Manual. just got my KORE 2 - once I've gotten used to that a bit Ii'll be getting my Maschine and I'm sure this will come in handy

mudgel

ba_midi


One easy way to insert Program Change is to use the Event List (not Event Inspector) and do the insert there.
It's actually a pretty convenient way since it's very direct/to-the-point.

There is a good Maschine manual available on the NI forum and I host a copy at :
http://ba-midi.com/stuff/Maschine%20HW%20Quick%20Ref%20V1-3.pdf

This may help you get some of the info you need to work this through.

BTW, you can turn off the '1 bar' countin on Maschine, which is probably why you're hearing that 1 bar delay.

Manuals are our friend

Thanks for the Manual. just got my KORE 2 - once I've gotten used to that a bit Ii'll be getting my Maschine and I'm sure this will come in handy

I'm sure you've heard they're discontinuing development of Kore 2 :(   But Maschine is full steam ahead (and I love it).
So I hope you enjoy yours when you get it.

musicman100,

For now I think about reinstalling Windows from zero, installing Sonar, Ableton and just few plugins I really need, because I think I have little mess on my computer: 2 changes of processsors, 3 changes of motherboards etc.
Not mentioning Bitbridge and jBridge issues, what starts to pissing me off (crashes etc).

Back to Mashine - I remember IN-OUT issue is with Kontakt too - Sonar doesn't wants to work properly with 32-outputs instance of Kontakt, and I'm pretty sure with 16-out instance there are similar problems.
I will check it with Steve Slate Drums plugin today evening (CET evening) or tomorrow.