How does the mapping work?

Never used Maschine. Interested in the main unit (in between Mikro and Studio)

If you add a synth on the computer... do you need to map the individual notes of that synth to different buttons on the Maschine? or...say, does it automatically add a row or column of 4, with 4 different notes.... or what? How does this aspect of it work?

I play around with FL, but making melodies is hard work. Very unintuitive - like you have to reverse engineer your own thoughts.

Thanks.

 

You can open a vst synth inside maschine & play it from the pads (keyboard mode).
Or open that vst in another DAW & send notes to it in midi mode.
Also in midi mode, you can send midi notes to an external gear. All without any kind of mapping, pretty straightforward.