Sending Audio via bus to Maschine FX

Hi there,

Can anyone help me out with using Maschine as an effect box? I'm using logic pro 9 and I was wondering if it is possible to send audio from several software instruments to machine and then have individual FX set up within the maschine plugin so I can then adjust the various parameters of each specific effect relevant to whatever software instrument audio I have sent to that effect.

I know that sounds like a convoluted mess but basically I want to do this (for example):

Software instrument 'massive' 'fm8' > bus send to aux (with maschine FX insert) > Receive massive/fm8 bus audio > set up individual FX (e.g. a delay effect for massive and a reverb effect for fm8 so that can be adjusted separately) then output

Hope that makes sense!

 

As with standalone, you have four external inputs in Maschine when used as a plugin, so you could route, for example, four different synths to different Sounds in Maschine and treat them to different effects or, as you've suggested, bus the synths in your DAW and send that bus to one of the external inputs.

It seems from your example and description that you actually want them separate. I don't know specifically how routing is done in Logic (never used it), but try having Massive and FM8 on two different tracks, then Maschine FX on a third track. Route each of the synths to the Maschine FX track, but you need to have massive pointing to Ext. 1 and FM8 to Ext. 2. Then you can set up two different Sounds in Maschine (FX) to receive audio on Ext. 1 (Massive) and Ext. 2 (FM8).

Hope that makes some sense...

P.S. It's not convoluted at all to me. I like to do this with live audio inputs, so I have control over effects with Maschine. In my experience, though, too much routing in and out can have grave effects on CPU! Though just singular routings as you're doing shouldn't be too bad.

 

Do you know how I'd set massive as ext. 1 and fm8 as ext. 2? I can get the audio into maschine fx but the instruments are all on the same external.

 

That usually (always?) needs to be done in the DAW. Many DAWs have different ways of doing it, so just have a look at how Logic can send audio from one track (channel 1/2) to another track's other stereo pair (i.e., 1/2 > 3/4). As I said, I don't have experience with Logic, so don't know how it deals with multichannel tracks and plugins. This might help: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep07/articles/logictech_0907.htm