Some basic workflow questions

Hey there. I have 3 workflow questions I can not figure out after few hours of work:

1). If I have 4 measures part, can I start playback or recording from the specified measure? In most programs you click on the measure and this is where your starting point would be. Not in this one.

2). Is there setting for quantize? How do I specify "to 16th" or "to 8th"? And what are those settings near Swing, such as Cycle- 1/8, 6/16? Also I don't feel Swing doing anything- is there a difference between the one by the tempo and the one under the GRV?

3). Can I open more than one project? I would like to audition a project and copy something from it in to the project I am working on.

Thank you very much.

 

i can answer all in one word : rtfm

 

To answer number 2, I'm pretty sure that there's an on-screen option (controller) when you shift + press the quantise pad. You can fully or 50% quantise your selection (automatically selected from the notes just recorded).

At least, that's sort of what I remember from using Maschine nearly 2 years ago...

1) in short, yes - hazy on the details.
3) I believe you can switch instances, certainly as a plug in, so again, in short, yes?

Agree with previous post though, RTFM is your friend here.

 

Thank you for your reply. I get it about fully or 50% quantize (also I find it strange). When I press Shift+ Quantize, there is no boxes or dialogs with options pop up. This is why to me it is confusing- 50% of what? When you quantize section to 16th, the notes move closest to the next 16th note. If you quantize to whole note, the notes move to next whole note. It looks to me that full quintize is using- my notes get to the beginning of the measure but they do not all get to the beginning, so it is NOT a whole note. I need to be able to specify how much I quantize.

How #1 can be hazy on details? You mean- you have to do many operations before you click on a measure you want to start playback or record from? This should be simple click- what details? For #3, I meant in free-standing mode. As a plugin it only opens in a small window for me, this is why I prefer to use it in free standing mode, unless there is a way to increase its window size as the plugin.

 

All your questions are about basic operation and shows you jumped right in and have not yet taken the time to look in the manual.

The manual is located in Maschines help menu. It is very well written unlike many and you will find it an easy read. It also has a search feature for the PDF so you can type in phrases for what you want to know and the answer will pop right up with a clear explanation without needing to read the whole thing front to back. For mac you use I believe option+ find to bring up the search.

It's fine to ask here when you need help but some may take offense if you want them to take time answering questions that you could have found in under a minute with a manual search.

I will give you a hint, for quantize grid press grid. For swing use groove. Yes the grid, quantize and swing are all in separate places instead of one screen like I think it should be. Transport, like I said look it up in the manual.

 

Thank you for your reply. I hope nobody would feel offended about me asking how something is done. The questions are pretty simple- if somebody doing it every night and can answer it in a second, they would answer. Many people find satisfaction in being able to help others. There is no obligation- if they have no time, ok, I understand. This is for those who do have time to hang out on forums, discuss features, best ways to do things and help each other. The interesting thing is- the NI tech support acts the same way- I asked them a question, they sent me knowledge database article link. The issue was not resolved- they did not reply. (Talking about my 'Windows crashing" thread here that got no replies). You know how many times I had to look up something in manual in 20 years of working with midi? Never. The hardest instrument to work with was Fantom G- still have issues with it. Never had to use manual for Yamaha Motif, Roland V-Synth, Korg Triton or M3 or Cakewalk Sonar or Cubase or Wave Lab or Emagic Logic. If you telling me- I need a manual to figure out how to start playback from measure 3 and not 1 instead of just clicking on "3", there must be a problem with NI software. I find it offensive when I can not figure out basic things in software with 20 years of experience. So this is about how you look at things. I think people should be able to talk to each other. Forum traffic is good for sales. It creates interest and movement. Manual is helpful but there is nothing like human interaction. I am grateful that NI provides manual free of charge- not like modern video games, where you have to buy strategy walk through book to be able to make it through the first level. Something to look in to: close the forums and sale manuals. There will be less questions.

 

Ricky Woofer did answer a lot questions in detail i've seen when going truh the forumtopics, but they suspended his account i've noticed, stupid move from NI imo
that dude had almost 1100 posts and i see he joined the forum at April this year, do the math, minus the time his account is gone (dont know how long) that are a lot of helps handed out in a few months!

 

Easiest way I can think of to do what you aski for 1) would be to go to step mode and dial to the measure you want, hit record and act accordingly (out of step mode).

Does Maschine not have a functioning transport bar though? It's been nearly 2 years since I last used one and am on the fence to buy a new one - I could be wrong about all of this.

 

Thank you for your replies. I did look in to the manual and it is still confusing. I understand that they combined Grid and Quantize in one function, but I was not sure about all the extra parameters it has.

I did not find anything about Transport. It was something unrelated to starting from specified measure, so if you know how to start from measure 2, pleasel let me know. Thank you.

 

Grid step is what you want to look at. Sets the quantize grid to 1/16, 1/32 etc. The pattern length tab is not needed for quantize. Shift +pad 6( Quantize 50%) moves your notes half way to the current grid from where they were recorded. Shift+pad 5 (Quantize) will move the notes all the way to the current grid positions. The quantize parameter in grid is for real time input quantize. It only selects if you want input quantize on for recording or real time playing.

Transport step moves forward or back the play head by bars to whatever location you want to start and seems obvious, if you have the hardware? Or were you wanting to permanently alter the pattern start position and make say bar 3 the start position? If so there is no such feature yet.

All this is well explained in the manual. We love to help around here but it is not polite to ask others to take time out of their day to type out what is already right in front of you if you take the time to look it up. I say this because your previous post indicated you are not willing to bother with the manual. This is inconsiderate of others time.