MIDI in Maschine

Definitely having some issues i have yet to reslove after several days of poking around the software and manual. I will note that I am a new user of both Maschine and Komplete 8 ultimate so I apologize if the answers are obvious. I've certainly spent some time trying to get around this already.

So far when I try to use my moog voyager as a midi keyboard connected to Maschine's interface I'm having no luck. According to the manual this should be easy as pie, in fact the process of playing sounds using a midi keyboard connected to the Maschine interface should be one of the simplest tasks one could undertake.

It's odd as I've enabled/disabled/re-enabled the maschine midi interface in audio midi preferences multiple times (the idea is that if something was wrong it would reset?) and when using kontakt or reaktor have made sure that Whatever I'm trying to control is set to receive on midi channel 1 while the keyboard transmits on midi channel 1.

Using Razor which shows midi input, is showing me that no midi information is being received from the keyboard while the Maschine unit itself is transmitting midi information just fine. I've also tried to connect my prophet 600 as well as a weighted midi controller keyboard i own to Maschines midi input with no results

Besides this issue, I've noticed the software to crash frequently during routine operation particularly adding or removing sounds and Plug-ins. Even adding and removing units within guitar rig will sometimes crash the maschine software. It's not extremely frequent... I'd say 1 in 50 instances. Still enough to be very annoying though.

I'm running Mac OSX 10.6.8 with 8GB of memory and a 2.2 Ghz intel core i7
My Audio interface is the Apogee Ensemble.

I'm hoping this is simply me being a new user(since i don't see anyone else on the forum having this problem) or maybe a new more stable update of version 1.7 is coming soon?

Thanks in advance!

 

same

i have a guitar pedal that is supposed to midi sync via cable with maschine too and it doesnt, also i have a new expensive custom computer with 12 gig of memory and dual core with two hard drives and plenty of space for data caching or whatever it needs it for and yet when i automate effects, most noticeably the release dial on something like distortion which i use a lot of guitar sample recordings and my little bar next to the power icon goes red and mmy sounds start glitching and it makes recording impossible, this shouldnt happen, it haults any creatitivy or production that i try to take advantage of, and it does it being the only program running, on a fresh reboot.

other than that aside from some shoddy buttons that stick randomly technically its worth every penny but with that much money i'd expect the buttons to not start sticking within six months, its hot in the south and sometimes i dont use AC cause i'm not a pussy but there is no reason for this to happen on new hardware but i did read that it was an issue for some people, i smoke too i know thats not good for it but its not like i'm blowing smoke into it, for the price again, i'd expect to be able to have it sit on my desk in aroom thats alittle hot and has smoke in the vicinity to function properly but now the sticky buttons are the least of my worries since i cant record with effects. i mean, with beat delay it just stutters so much i have to close it and giveup. i dont know , i cant get much better of a pc so its not me. I've never had anything running choke up on me like that, and its not my pc thats choking, its the maschine cause i can do everything else fine with maschine stuttering even though i dont, but i might as well since it is unusableeither way.


I assume i'm not the only one with this issue but i did assume when i read the concerns that since ih ad a new pc that the software would run fine. i even turn off the effects and it still does it. i have 11 scenes, one bank with guitar recordings but, if it can go to 11, it should be able to handle it. and all the banks arent even playing i have 3 -4 patterns per scene max and not all of them are using effects.

 

Sorry to hear about your troubles folks

@ Musipal
I've only got troubleshooting advice unfortunately but in case it helps:

Re: Midi

MIDI Monitor is a useful OSX utility that might help you narrow down exactly where things aren't working i.e. to figure out if the software is having trouble routing MIDI in or if there is a problem with the physical inputs.

http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/

Re: Crashing

I'm on a similar system and Maschine is very stable so I'd definitely contact support and send NI the the crash reports if you haven't already.

Good Luck

 

Musipal

I am have the eact same problem i wads wondering if it was me also I posted a thread like this also I tried midi in directly into my Maschine and USB using Port A still no sound so if you figure this one out before me please contact me with what you did to successfully use the midi controller.

Thanks

Outstanding

 

I try to sync it to External Midi or USB port. It works for a while until it doesn't read clock properly anymore and runs "backwards" at very high speed but showing the same tempo, until complete crash.

You know anything about this ?
Thank you