Hello, Something i don't understand, when i load "Grany Day", in Group 2, there is only one pad active. When i mute all groups but this one and press play, that one pad trigger a different pitch. When i stop the track, and try to push on it, same pitch. How did they do that ? it looks like a piano roll is behind that one pad. I know i can do that with the keyboard, is it some bug ? Thank you.
Hold down the group button for a second or two and menu will appear asking if you want the group to be in Pad Mode, Keyboard Mode, or Microphone(Record) Mode. Choose Keyboard to get into the "piano roll" screen
No, that's not it at all. There is a track which ships with iMaschine, called "Grainy Day," which you can load by tapping "Open," then tapping "Factory," and then tapping "Club - Grainy Day." The "B" instrument in this track is a Pads instrument -- but if you solo it in the mixer, it is actually playing its sample at multiple different pitches, as if it were a Keys instrument. If you actually tap it by hand, it plays at a lower pitch than any of the pitches it plays at in the song. If you tap the little waveform icon to bring up the sound editor, its pitch is unmodified and at the default "zero" / center position. So the question is, how did they do that? Also, if you look at the velocity tab, the velocity never changes, and if you go into the "record" half of the sound editor, there are no additional versions of the sample. So either there's some really cool hack which makes iMaschine more useful, or NI kinda "cooked the books" by setting something up in a demo track which we users cannot actually get the software to do!
You are aware that you can load the multi samples from the keyboard instruments onto pads and change the pitch if required? (just go to the appropriate folder) I haven't listened to this one but I suspect it's one of the pitched sequence multi samples.
That's it. This is what i did to replicate it. Open the sound you want to use with the keyboard. Play your sequence and save that as a project. Export that project as sound only. Save the folder out of iTunes and unzip it. Drag the wave file from that project back into iTunes and assign it to a pad. If that's not what you're talking about Skipp please speak up. Especially if you now an easier or better way. I don't really see the benefit of doing this on one pad rather than just set the instrument as keys and play it on there.
I've now had a chance to listen to the track and there's some cheating going on behind the hood! What I meant was that some of the samples, in the Swag City set for example, are small melodic sequences. (too many for my liking) Individual multisamples for the keyboard instrument can be loaded onto pads on the drum instrument. This lets you get some pitched content without having to use a whole instruments, assuming that you only need a few pitches. Just use the sample browser and navigate to the Instruments section. I thought this might be what they've done but having listened to it it's not, they are only using one sample "Impact Third Man". If you set this up on four drum pads and re pitch the four samples you can play and record the same sequence they have, so it is possible to play the song on iMaschine as it stands. It appears however that NI have cheated a little and are using some settings that we don't have access to and created a sequence that is tied to a pad. When writing this I've just remembered that you can do the opposite and load a one shot sample into a keyboard. If you load up the appropriate sample it's easy to recreate the sequence. You just have a keyboard instrument rather than a pad? I wonder what happens if you convert it to a pad after recording something?
That's what I did in my instructions above. When you press the drum pad you've assigned your new sound to it plays the whole thing. So if you've recorded an 8 bar loop and assigned it to the drum pad it will play that loop with one press.
The OP questioned how it was done in the song and as far as I can see we can replicate the part but we can't make it apply it to a single pad without resampling, which is not how NI have done it. Makes me wonder if the piece was even recorded in iMaschine or if there is hidden functionality? The problem I have with what you've done is purely practical. I hate having to go back to my computer to transfer files backwards and forwards, I want to work purely on the iPad until I'm ready to take the project into Maschine. (Bring in audio copy paste and resampling within iMaschine and I'd pay a lot more for it!) I've got a Beringer UCA 222 USB audio connector which I attach with the Camera Kit. Looping the input to the output lets you resampled directly to a pad though I'd much rather do it digitally and without the wires! It's a personal thing but if your happy to use your computer to transfer the audio that's great.
Has there been any development with this? Bgirl, I opened the project you're talking about in Maschine and found that I was able to edit the pitch information there just like any pad in a Maschine project. There's a project in the Transistor Punch expansion that works this way, too, so it's not limited to in-house NI people.
Please, NI, iMaschine is so excellent, it just needs this one Maschine feature (ability to play drum pads chromatically) added. iMaschine is literally the reason I switched over to Maschine from Cubase.
Hi, trying to find out just how to do that... Can you provide some guidance please? Eg NI published another demo where this was done...Lucid Mission, Proud like a god. group D
It can't be done. It only works with those default projects because they're importing the Maschine projects that have this in it. Maschine can do it but this feature is unfortunately crippled in iMaschine.