Mixing in Maschine vs DAW ?

Yes lol for only 49bucks....per month until you reach 1800. Good starter

 

I have edited my previous post to correct.
(The little fish is Maschine btw).

Most DAW's are built for mixing.
Maschine is just a sequencer/sampler/VST host. You can mix on it but it's a fairly Walter Mitty arrangement. It's not designed for this purpose.

The sequencer isn't very good, it's probably a reasonable live Instrument for loop music.

 

Thanks again everybody!
Will probably do it like most of you: Arrange in maschine, final mixdown in DAW.

Now, I have question regarding the audio routing for this workflow:

I use Maschine with headphones and when it's running I can't hear audio from my computer (only from the Maschine software).

Is there a way to hear other audio from the computer in my headphones which are connected to my Maschine MK3?

It would be super annoying to disconnect the headphones from Maschine and plug them into my mac every time I want to work in my DAW.
Don't have studio monitors... only options are headphones and internal mac speakers.

 

Can you change the soundcard in your Mac to use the mk3? Instead of the standard Mac soundcard?

 

No the free fx bundle is free
https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeFXBundle
But like I already said you can expand some functionality for 50 bugs just one time.

Uwe

 

Oh. I thought it would make you go into the monthly payment process. It is not very clear at first.
Thanks for clarifying

 

No problem - I really love the melda stuff I also bought the mreverb and it's sounding absolutely great they also have monthly deals - I would never buy the big pack just the stuff I really need

 

I produce and mix entirely in Maschine.
Works absolutely fine. I've had to add a bunch of plug-ins because the stock effects sometimes don't cut it, and a few essentials are missing.

But then I'm also stunned when I see videos and pictures of people's projects and they have ridiculous effect chains on everything.. by the time you get to the master output there's like 10 layers of compression/limiting and filtering going on and it'll sound flat, artificial and un-dynamic.. meaning it's gonna be a bitch to get loud.

That said, performance in Maschine is the main bottleneck for me. It's not great, but it's a given limit you can work within. Also, my PC is 7 yrs old and kind of an exotic setup... that's a factor too, lol.

 

I feel you my computer is 11 years old

 

Wow then I'm good with my 6 year old FX 8320 - for me everything works but next year I will buy some new stuff, board, processor, ram

Uwe

 

Me too that's the plan... I might dedicate this one to the abbey road reverb lol

 

I can and did but I don't hear anything in my headphones unfortunately.

How do you go about this workflow since you mix in Cubase? Do you use Maschine with monitors and mix with heaphones or vice versa?

 

You have to set output to 3-4 I guess to send maschines master output to the headphone out.

Uwe

 

You can't have two Daws open on one soundcard m I export my files and import into ChaseC

 

Yes in rewire mode you can definitely have to daws on one sound card .
Even in link mode no problem

 

I only have 1-2 as output options... damn. Thank you tho!

 

I watched some videos of it and it looked kinda nice. I discovered a bunch of other free EQs tho and am confused which one is best for EQing inside Maschine.

TokyoDawnRecords Nova gets mentioned a lot. Does anyone have experience with this plugin?

Now I'm looking at so many EQ options and have a hard time picking one. Any advantages Tonebooster EQ has over other EQs?

 

TDR is also great and it's an dynamic EQ I would choose TDR and Melda MEqualizer.
TDR like I said for dynamic stuff and MEqualizer has also a good sounding saturation tho can bring in some character but both can also be just surgical EQ s.

Uwe

But the tonebooster stuff is also great
I think they all can do in a wide range the same and the last 10 percent is a matter of taste. So I just decided for Melda and TDR but Melda mostly for everything and TDR Nova mostly for Mastering or on Busses.
And my opinion is also to concentrate and learn a few vsts and not collect thousands.

 

What? I thought maschine mk3 has 2 different stereo outputs.

 

Tokyo Dan lab is great. Nova is a good mixing eq with a lot of capabilities. A bit CPU intensive but great.
Voxengo has nice free plugins.
Hornets plugins are cheap with some very interesting ones. Tone booster is a great company with great sounding plugins.
You can check the sales from waves as well.
I go with izotope neutron in Maschine but lots of stuff out here even for free. Kvr audio as a nice bunch of free plugins with handy filters in the search engine.
Try some and see which one you feel confortable with how it sounds and how your CPU handles it