This the workflow I've been looking at recently. I just love getting tracks started in Maschine vs Ableton! It's so much easier to get things going early on.
Thank you for this! Been a Maschine user for a while but just got Ableton for mixing my Maschine tracks and this has been the most helpful tutorial out of the 7 I’ve watched.
First of what a great tutor and producer. Been watching for a while even though i didn't have maschine and you are part of the reason i finally got a MK3. Now being the noob that i am, i couldn't for the life of me find how to just export the whole song, even though i was searching for hours and voila my man to the rescue.Just right click and append to song. Thanks yet again man xd.
Excellent breakdown here, and exactly what I was looking for for my workflow. I much prefer using Maschine as a standalone, as it doesn't feel as limiting as Ableton in terms of beatmaking
Nice! Thanks for the video, very useful. I was just trying to figure this stage out and I did the audio bouncing out of Maschine but wasn't clear about everything.
Always good bass found in your productions .. If you want to do a theoretical totural on your composition preferences for the bass, that interests me a lot !!! Pentatonics, root / third, etc ?? That would be really cool of you.
Thank you for the suggestion, will try to do something like this but I mostly play it intuitively, using the root of the chord that’s playing at the moment and add other notes from the scale to add some bounce and groove. It’s also all about the rhythm.
That's true, my conclusion was the same in my Push vs Maschine comparison video. However a new Maschine software update is coming soon, that's expected to add more DAW-like features. So let's see what it brings.
Glad it was useful! For Session view it would be better to export different patterns and scenes separately. Maybe the drag and drop method would work better for this. Also, make sure there's no silence/tail at the end of the exported files and enable warp and loop on the clips in Live.
@@LowHeatBeats after i choose fm8 in instruments, nowhere i see the option to choose expansions. I see types like bass, string or charachters like acoustic.
This method is quicker if you want to transfer the whole project at once. I usually have 4-5 scenes and 5-6 patterns in each scene or more, so this keeps everything in tact. Otherwise I would have to drag and drop 20-30 patterns. If we’re talking just a couple of patterns, yeah drag and drop would be quicker then.
Thanks for the video. Do the invidual effects that you have added to each sound in Maschine if you export this way, or is there another way of doing that? Cheers.
Yeah, if you choose "Sounds" the effects you've applied on each sound remain on the exported .wav file. The group effects are removed however, for them to remain on the exported file you need to choose to export at the Group level.
@@LowHeatBeats Hey bro.. For some reason when i drag and drop my exported stems into Ableton, none of the tracks match up perfectly the way yours did in the video.. so when i do it every different track is out of place.. Is that because of how ive arranged it in Maschine?, some of my "patterns" are different lengths and theres a few short "clips" in there aswell.. not sure how to fix this without doing it manually in ableton, maybe you have some advice?
Thanks again for the video! I have a question, I tried to do everything by video, everything works, but the samples have clicks at the beginning. How to get rid of them when exporting?
You're welcome! You can use the fades on the audio clips in Ableton, just a small fade in would get rid of the clicks. If you don't see the fades you need to get out of automation mode (on Live 10).
Exactly ! Setting up all those channels and stuff in ableton to use maschine as a vst is way to complicated, in my mind. For me i need to do it more straight forward so my creativity doesnt stop. I think of it as ableton is a modern tapemachine with a lot of cutting and mixing cabebillitys!
Wonderful! Very helpful indeed. Thank you for this. I kind of gave up on the whole integration with Ableton until I saw this video. I do notice some sounds are sounding different in Ableton when comparing it within the Maschine's software. Maybe some effects are not properly exported into audio? Definitely the volumes of certain instruments (kick vs hi-hat) are changed. Any ideas on that? I followed the same exact settings in export on the Maschine.
Maybe you had group effects and volume adjustments from the group volume? When you export Sounds, any group fx and volume controls are disabled and the balance of your tracks may be different when you import to Ableton.
@@LowHeatBeats that is the case indeed.. I will have to take that into account next time. Still, this method remains the most useful I have found! Thank you for the quick response! Subscribed to your channel :)
@@ianwebster3489 I just compensate for it in Ableton Live. The exporting takes the FX off anyways. And I try to use only FX once in Ableton (you can also load the exact same Maschine effects into Ableton).
Low heat! Love your tutorials and your beats my man! I usually finish my songs completely in Maschine, but it's a pain in the ass. So I started trying to integrate Ableton and Maschine, but its been a struggle (using the plugin mode). I think I want to stick to StandAlone in Maschine and export to Ableton like your video, but I have questions - 1. At what point do you feel ready to move your track into Maschine for arrangement and completion? If you decide you want to add new patterns do you go back to Maschine again or do you just do it in Ableton? 2. What about levels? Do you just keep the Maschine master at -3db to -6db below the 0 owhen you export? 3. Also, what about stuff like your sidechaining for creative effects - do you just do this in Ableton? Thank you!
Thanks bro, much appreciated! 1. Once I have at least 3-4 different scenes which can serve as different parts of the track and at least 5-6 strong and good-sounding elements. Basically when I feel I have nothing to add to the track, but also have enough material to arrange. Still, I often add additional stuff in Ableton, I never go back to Maschine. 2. Doesn't matter all that much because I'm not exporting the master channel, just make sure my individual sounds aren't clipping. They are always very loud when I import them into Ableton, so I turn them down a lot in Ableton, before arranging/mixing. 3. I export from Maschine with the effects, including sidechaining. Turning effects off and re-doing them in Ableton is often a waste of time and it doesn't sound quite right because the Ableton effects sound different. Hope this helps :)
@@LowHeatBeats If were exporting with sound selected for source how can we keep any effects we may have on the group or master? is there a workaround for this?
Does anybody knows if when you export audio stems from maschine to ableton,is the audio being exported with all the fx and processing applied inside Maschine software or just the “pre fx” version of each stem?
Depends on whether you choose to export separate Sounds or Groups. If you export Sounds, they are exported only with the effects that are applied to the Sound level. There's no "pre fx option".
Great tutorial man! Thank you for demonstrating this. Is there a way to do this but with MIDI (instead of audio)? Would like to still have flexibility to swap out sounds once inside Ableton's arrangement view
@@LowHeatBeats thanks! I'm aware of the drag and drop functionality, but was wondering if there's a way to export the full "arrangment" like you did with the audio here. Either way, will I need to load an instance of Maschine on each track (and select the correct instruments/sounds) once I've got all the midi on different tracks inside Live?
@@ckrug32 Yes, that's what you probably need to do or use one instance and set different MIDI channels for each Group. For me it makes no sense, too much effort. I'd rather commit to audio and in the rare occasion I decide to change something I can go back to the Maschine project and re-export. Otherwise, I might as well skip Maschine altogether and just make the beat in Ableton. But whatever works for you.
@@LowHeatBeats makes sense -- that would slow the process down for sure. Now I need to decide between committing to Maschine audio, or trading my Maschine for a Push! Watched your other videos on Maschine vs Push. Would love to hear your thoughts on Push 3 (in general and vs. Maschine).
@@ckrug32 That's the problem - Maschine is more fun and faster to make beats than Push, but Ableton is a much better DAW. In fact with Ableton I use mouse and keyboard 95% of the time, Push is slower to use. I will probably get a Push 3 at some point to make some videos, so if you follow the channel you won't miss them.
Good question, you have 4 options (I don't really use master fx , just group fx): 1. Let it export without the group effects and then group the sounds in Ableton and add similar effects. It never sounds exactly the same though. 2. Do the same but then add Maschine as an effect on the group in Ableton with the same effects. 3. Solo the sounds in the group and export them one by one, exporting at the group level which would retain the effects but it may again sound different to exporting the whole group. 4. Just export the group in one file, but then you don't have the flexibility to change stuff in Ableton. None of these is ideal, I guess no. 2 is the best if you want to retain the exact same sound but still have flexibility.
Thanks for the insight! Maschine has been holding my projects hostage as I'm trying to export midi from Maschine to have ultimate complete control (No pun intended). Is audio the only way out of maschine?
pls explain again with the new clipupdates.. ive recorded the vocals in maschine but cant get it right in ableton..but trying to do the vocals in ableton
I have my first song completely arranged in Maschine. does this work the same as far as getting the song into a DAW for adding vocals, mixing and so on?
Only part I was confused on was the “selecting the scenes” part in the DAW. How exactly did u do that? Just highlight a certain amount of bars then what? Sorry just would love to understand that part
The idea is to separate the scenes in your DAW and copy and arrange them as you like. If you use Live, look into the “duplicate time” feature. If you’re using another DAW, there may be a similar feature but the idea is to copy, extend and edit the scenes to form an arrangement.
Can you show how you got the end result step by step I love Ableton but once I get my maschine session over I don’t know what effects to add to make my song sound clean.
So you mean a video on mixing? Because I don’t only do the mix in Live, I also do the arrangement. Actually good arrangement, setting proper levels and using good sounds to begin with, makes for a clean mix before even adding effects. But yeah, I will try to do a more detailed video, I just wanted to keep this one short. Thanks for the suggestion. 👊
Thanks bro for all your super dope videos;) i follow the same concept as you. But i really would love to export all individual scene and their assigned patterns. Is there a way to it? Somehow this topic is never discussed at NI and honestly they a really bad support. Thx bro,;) cheers from zurigo, switzerland Chris
Thanks for watching the videos! If I understand you correctly, I think the "Split by section" option does this. Is that the one that you're looking for?
Is there a way to just export the patterns that are used in a scene? I keep getting every pattern (used and unused) for each scene. This makes it hard to parse the copying and pasting on files into Ableton.
if export sounds only sound level and efx matters you don´t get maschine group volumes, master volume or efx either, Am I right? I wondered maybe yrs why maschine export sounds so different when it is exported on ableton..
If you mean a melodic sample, no, because I usually treat it as one single element of my track, so I don't need to apply different processing to different chops. But that would depend on how you use the sample, so your approach may be different.
Great video man very educational and clear. This is stupid but whats that command to set all the sounds in diffrent channels automatically in windows??? game changer simple shit lol
@@LowHeatBeats Thanks bro, and last thing. Do you now if when you export this tracks, they export with all the processes and fx on? Or in ableton you will have the stems raw just the original sound bypassed? Cause i tend to do a lot of processing in the same maschine producing stage and i want it to sound in ableton the same it does in maschine, and then end the arranging and stuff there.
Hey I know you mention that the drag and drop workflow is kind of a pain, but could you maybe do a video on it anyway? Or point me in the direction of a good video going over the process, I’m still figuring out my ideal workflow so I think know how it would work would help me.
Thank you for this, I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this and I couldn’t figure out how to explain myself to someone.. my only Issues I’ve come cross is that when I load this into ableton it bogs down ableton and I don’t know why.
@@LowHeatBeats yea it freezes and everything inside the software is delayed, the sound is fine when it plays but it can take like 1-2 minutes to start and another minute to get it to stop once it plays.. but loading a track from ableton there’s no issue..
Tough question man, did you watch my MK3 vs Push 2 comparison video? I’d say the Push 2 because with Ableton you can do everything, not because the actual controller is better.
Die you export your single tracks with FX on them or do you bypass them an rebuild them in Ableton later on when doing your mixdown? I leave everything on that has to do with sound design like distortion, bitcrusher but bypass FX like reverbs, compression.
Your approach is pretty good, adding better quality reverb and compression while mixing in Ableton might give you better results. But I don’t disable any FX, except for the Group FX on the drums, which are disabled automatically because I export the separate sounds from the group. Then I add saturation and compression in Ableton. I prefer to keep the Maschine FX because it saves time and I can never recreate exactly the same vibe when adding FX later.
@@LowHeatBeats Hey man, thats exactly my question, does it export the tracks with the FX on automatically by default? Or does it exports the audio tracks bypassed and you have to select that yourself?
I agree with this technique! routing is way too much and doesn't make you take full advantage of Maschine! Btw, i see you have made more videos on Maschine mk3. I own a Maschine Mk2 and I have a buget to either upgrade to mk3 or to get a Push2.. im really torn on what to do! What's your opinion? Ps i know Ableton and Maschine very well. I love maschine how quick it is but Ableton is obviously a better Daw!
Yes, exactly, it's a hard choice, they both have pros and cons.There are so many things to consider, so it's going to be a long answer so I'm going to make a new Push vs Maschine video (I do have an older one) and will explain there.
This the workflow I've been looking at recently. I just love getting tracks started in Maschine vs Ableton! It's so much easier to get things going early on.
Yup, starting a tracks ia definitely one of Maschine’s strengths.
One of the best workflow videos I’ve found! Thanks
Thank you!
Thank you for this! Been a Maschine user for a while but just got Ableton for mixing my Maschine tracks and this has been the most helpful tutorial out of the 7 I’ve watched.
This is great man, I’m glad you found it helpful
I appreciate seeing your workflow. I'm new to Maschine and plan to use it with Ableton, so this is quite helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful and thank you for watching!
You are the MAN! Saved me so much time with exporting sounds altogether instead of individually! This video should have way more views! Much love bro!
Great to hear! Thank you!
Easiest way to use Maschine with a DAW. Thank you sharing your workflow. I overthinked it all the time. I'm gonna do it just like you!
Yeah, overthinking and overcomplicating your workflow makes you less productive, I know from experience 😀. Thanks for watching!
I am new on Maschine (I just bought a MK3 Mikro) and this video helped me a lot with new things to do into Ableton. Thanks a lot keep up good job!
Glad it was helpful!
You helped me alot with inspiration and tutorials.
Thanks for the consistency
I’m very happy to help 🙂 Thanks for the support
Thanks man looks a lot easier than the routing in and out videos ive watched!!
Totally man
First of what a great tutor and producer. Been watching for a while even though i didn't have maschine and you are part of the reason i finally got a MK3. Now being the noob that i am, i couldn't for the life of me find how to just export the whole song, even though i was searching for hours and voila my man to the rescue.Just right click and append to song. Thanks yet again man xd.
Awesome! Thank you for the kind words and for watching the videos 🙏
I just ordered a Maschine last week - seeing stuff like this makes me super excited to get started :D
Man, I remember how excited I was when I got my first Maschine. You’re gonna have a blast 👌
That was very clear and very well explained. Thank you.
Much appreciated man, you’re welcome 🙌
DOPE!! Man your tutorials are extremely through!!! AWESOME!!
Aaah, nice one, glad you enjoy them!
Thankyou! Really love your tutorials.
Appreciete your comments, thank you!
Very useful mate !! and you expain simple and clear !! good job !
Thank you so much man 👊
I'm new with Maschine and this video is exactly what I am looking for! Thanks man, I suscribe^^ !
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Hey I didnt know how to make the stems in maschine but its so easy this way thanks you, you made my day!
Glad I could help!
Great workflow- thank you
Thanks watching man
Great tips ! Thank LH! 🔥
Happy to help Lucas!
Thanks , that was the Workflow i was looking for! Thanks for the vid ;-)
You’re welcome man, glad you enjoyed it!
This was a perfect explanation thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial, thanks.
No problem, glad it was useful.
Excellent breakdown here, and exactly what I was looking for for my workflow. I much prefer using Maschine as a standalone, as it doesn't feel as limiting as Ableton in terms of beatmaking
Thank you, glad the video was useful to you 👊
Dope beat and very helpful video!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
This helped me a lot. Thank you. Subscribed
You’re welcome and thank you for the sub 🙏
Nice tutorial. Thank you very much.
Thanks for watching man!
so helpful, as usual, thank you
You’re welcome!
Bruh! Thank U for these videos!
Glad you like them!
You get my vote
Salute!
Great vids as usual brother
Thank you fam!
Thnx! Really helpful technique
Salute 🙌
Thanks for the tutorial
Thanks for watching it! ☺️
Nice technique bro very helpful
Thanks for watching my stuff 🙏
Nice! Thanks for the video, very useful. I was just trying to figure this stage out and I did the audio bouncing out of Maschine but wasn't clear about everything.
That’s great man, I’m happy to help!
Thank you for this video!!!
Thank you for watching it!
Like the workflow as mentioned earlier...I use Studio One 5.2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎧
Much appreciated, yeah you can do the same with Studio One instead of Ableton for sure.
That was great.. thank you
Hey, I appreciate you watching!
Thank you very much for this vidéo!
No problem, glad it was useful!
Thank you brother!
You're most welcome ✌️
Great content man, subbed
Appreciate the sub! 👊
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Thank you! Greetings from Bulgaria 🙌
Great vid man keep it up.
Thanks for the support fam!
This is knowledge thx a million
Happy to help!
Dang!!! Thanks man! 💯🔥
You're welcome! 👊
Dope bro I subscribed
Thanks bro!
My history tells me I've already watched this, but I'm gonna watch again!
Maybe I missed something
Yeah, this is the video I was talking about.
Always good bass found in your productions .. If you want to do a theoretical totural on your composition preferences for the bass, that interests me a lot !!! Pentatonics, root / third, etc ?? That would be really cool of you.
Thank you for the suggestion, will try to do something like this but I mostly play it intuitively, using the root of the chord that’s playing at the moment and add other notes from the scale to add some bounce and groove. It’s also all about the rhythm.
Dope thank you👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Nice one man, thanks for watching!
That beat is groovy bro
Salute!
You just helped me make mind up about push 2 or mk3. If your gonna end up in Ableton anyway, too bad mk3 doesn't have a daw.
That's true, my conclusion was the same in my Push vs Maschine comparison video. However a new Maschine software update is coming soon, that's expected to add more DAW-like features. So let's see what it brings.
This video is worth $1.million🔥
I appreciate that!
Thanks for the video! I was just about to sell my maschine, but your video persuaded me otherwise!
Nice one! Hopefully it will help you finish tracks 👊
Great video, this helps a lot, would be great if you made a balance, mixing video also. Thanks.
Thanks! A mixing video is on my to-do list, so stay tuned.
@@LowHeatBeats Thanks for that
Bro thank you much THIS WAS PERFECT! how about moving the pattens to the live work flow in Abletone?
Glad it was useful! For Session view it would be better to export different patterns and scenes separately. Maybe the drag and drop method would work better for this. Also, make sure there's no silence/tail at the end of the exported files and enable warp and loop on the clips in Live.
Thank you
You're welcome 👊
hey! thanks alot!
You’re welcome, thanks for watching
thanks keep going
Definitely man, thank you!
Tutorial was great but that beat is straight FIRE, do you have that beat on Spotify, I need to hear the whole beat.
Haven’t put it out yet, but will do, thanks for the reminder.
I'll have to try this it was a little fast, but that what is good about video you can always play it back.
Thanks for the feedback ✌️
Sweet track ❤
I appreciate that!
@@LowHeatBeats do you know I can see instruments per expansion? I can see drum groups but instruments it sorts only by sound engine.
@@gorkemgulan Yes, after you choose your instrument, e.g. Massive, the "Banks" filter sorts the presets by expansion.
@@LowHeatBeats after i choose fm8 in instruments, nowhere i see the option to choose expansions. I see types like bass, string or charachters like acoustic.
@@gorkemgulan That's probably because FM8 isn't used in any expansion. Try Massive or Monark and filter by Bank.
dope!
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Nice 😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey man 🙏Thanks for all your videos. Is there any reason why you don't just use drag and drop (the audio) into Ableton?
This method is quicker if you want to transfer the whole project at once. I usually have 4-5 scenes and 5-6 patterns in each scene or more, so this keeps everything in tact. Otherwise I would have to drag and drop 20-30 patterns. If we’re talking just a couple of patterns, yeah drag and drop would be quicker then.
Thanks for the video. Do the invidual effects that you have added to each sound in Maschine if you export this way, or is there another way of doing that? Cheers.
Yeah, if you choose "Sounds" the effects you've applied on each sound remain on the exported .wav file. The group effects are removed however, for them to remain on the exported file you need to choose to export at the Group level.
Thanks its really good video, bro are you have video about effects on 8.07 ?
Thank you! I don’t have such a video but it’s a great idea for a video, so I’ll add it to the to-do list.
спасибо!
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Thanks!
@@LowHeatBeats Hey bro..
For some reason when i drag and drop my exported stems into Ableton, none of the tracks match up perfectly the way yours did in the video.. so when i do it every different track is out of place..
Is that because of how ive arranged it in Maschine?, some of my "patterns" are different lengths and theres a few short "clips" in there aswell..
not sure how to fix this without doing it manually in ableton, maybe you have some advice?
@@kapman.official700 You may need to turn off the warping option for the audio clips in Ableton.
Thanks again for the video! I have a question, I tried to do everything by video, everything works, but the samples have clicks at the beginning. How to get rid of them when exporting?
You're welcome! You can use the fades on the audio clips in Ableton, just a small fade in would get rid of the clicks. If you don't see the fades you need to get out of automation mode (on Live 10).
What VST or sound from native instruments is the bass sound your using?
Perfect no need to make all those drum tracks / labeling etc .... respect
Yup, that’s pretty neat. Thanks!
Exactly ! Setting up all those channels and stuff in ableton to use maschine as a vst is way to complicated, in my mind. For me i need to do it more straight forward so my creativity doesnt stop. I think of it as ableton is a modern tapemachine with a lot of cutting and mixing cabebillitys!
@@jimbafromouterspace6971 likewise
im prefer working standalone and want to arrange and record vocals in ableton
nice videos!!!!
Thank you!
Wonderful! Very helpful indeed. Thank you for this. I kind of gave up on the whole integration with Ableton until I saw this video.
I do notice some sounds are sounding different in Ableton when comparing it within the Maschine's software.
Maybe some effects are not properly exported into audio? Definitely the volumes of certain instruments (kick vs hi-hat) are changed.
Any ideas on that? I followed the same exact settings in export on the Maschine.
Maybe you had group effects and volume adjustments from the group volume? When you export Sounds, any group fx and volume controls are disabled and the balance of your tracks may be different when you import to Ableton.
@@LowHeatBeats that is the case indeed.. I will have to take that into account next time. Still, this method remains the most useful I have found!
Thank you for the quick response! Subscribed to your channel :)
@@jonasdelforche4194 Thanks man, I appreciate it!
@@LowHeatBeats How do you compensate for that? Do you just take the group FX off and re-balance before export?
@@ianwebster3489 I just compensate for it in Ableton Live. The exporting takes the FX off anyways. And I try to use only FX once in Ableton (you can also load the exact same Maschine effects into Ableton).
Low heat! Love your tutorials and your beats my man! I usually finish my songs completely in Maschine, but it's a pain in the ass. So I started trying to integrate Ableton and Maschine, but its been a struggle (using the plugin mode). I think I want to stick to StandAlone in Maschine and export to Ableton like your video, but I have questions -
1. At what point do you feel ready to move your track into Maschine for arrangement and completion? If you decide you want to add new patterns do you go back to Maschine again or do you just do it in Ableton?
2. What about levels? Do you just keep the Maschine master at -3db to -6db below the 0 owhen you export?
3. Also, what about stuff like your sidechaining for creative effects - do you just do this in Ableton?
Thank you!
Thanks bro, much appreciated!
1. Once I have at least 3-4 different scenes which can serve as different parts of the track and at least 5-6 strong and good-sounding elements. Basically when I feel I have nothing to add to the track, but also have enough material to arrange. Still, I often add additional stuff in Ableton, I never go back to Maschine.
2. Doesn't matter all that much because I'm not exporting the master channel, just make sure my individual sounds aren't clipping. They are always very loud when I import them into Ableton, so I turn them down a lot in Ableton, before arranging/mixing.
3. I export from Maschine with the effects, including sidechaining. Turning effects off and re-doing them in Ableton is often a waste of time and it doesn't sound quite right because the Ableton effects sound different.
Hope this helps :)
@@LowHeatBeats thanks bro, thats very helpful. Will try this method out from now on!
@@LowHeatBeats If were exporting with sound selected for source how can we keep any effects we may have on the group or master? is there a workaround for this?
@@richi_envoy wondering the same thing, maschine is a pain in the ass for exporting with fx
Does anybody knows if when you export audio stems from maschine to ableton,is the audio being exported with all the fx and processing applied inside Maschine software or just the “pre fx” version of each stem?
Depends on whether you choose to export separate Sounds or Groups. If you export Sounds, they are exported only with the effects that are applied to the Sound level. There's no "pre fx option".
QUESTION: Do you have a tutorial showing how one can use Maschine in VST mode and arrange the drums in Ableton
Nope, I don’t, sorry :/
Great tutorial man! Thank you for demonstrating this. Is there a way to do this but with MIDI (instead of audio)? Would like to still have flexibility to swap out sounds once inside Ableton's arrangement view
Yes, there's a button on each pattern above the note editor that lets you drag and drop MIDI onto Ableton or any other DAW. Glad the video was useful!
@@LowHeatBeats thanks! I'm aware of the drag and drop functionality, but was wondering if there's a way to export the full "arrangment" like you did with the audio here.
Either way, will I need to load an instance of Maschine on each track (and select the correct instruments/sounds) once I've got all the midi on different tracks inside Live?
@@ckrug32 Yes, that's what you probably need to do or use one instance and set different MIDI channels for each Group. For me it makes no sense, too much effort. I'd rather commit to audio and in the rare occasion I decide to change something I can go back to the Maschine project and re-export. Otherwise, I might as well skip Maschine altogether and just make the beat in Ableton. But whatever works for you.
@@LowHeatBeats makes sense -- that would slow the process down for sure. Now I need to decide between committing to Maschine audio, or trading my Maschine for a Push!
Watched your other videos on Maschine vs Push. Would love to hear your thoughts on Push 3 (in general and vs. Maschine).
@@ckrug32 That's the problem - Maschine is more fun and faster to make beats than Push, but Ableton is a much better DAW. In fact with Ableton I use mouse and keyboard 95% of the time, Push is slower to use. I will probably get a Push 3 at some point to make some videos, so if you follow the channel you won't miss them.
How did you used to get around exporting at sound level and it bypassing all group & master channel FX?
Good question, you have 4 options (I don't really use master fx , just group fx):
1. Let it export without the group effects and then group the sounds in Ableton and add similar effects. It never sounds exactly the same though.
2. Do the same but then add Maschine as an effect on the group in Ableton with the same effects.
3. Solo the sounds in the group and export them one by one, exporting at the group level which would retain the effects but it may again sound different to exporting the whole group.
4. Just export the group in one file, but then you don't have the flexibility to change stuff in Ableton.
None of these is ideal, I guess no. 2 is the best if you want to retain the exact same sound but still have flexibility.
Getting close to Reid Stephan head banging LOL
lol appreciate that
Thanks for the insight! Maschine has been holding my projects hostage as I'm trying to export midi from Maschine to have ultimate complete control (No pun intended). Is audio the only way out of maschine?
Glad the video was useful! No, you can export MIDI as well.
pls explain again with the new clipupdates.. ive recorded the vocals in maschine but cant get it right in ableton..but trying to do the vocals in ableton
Sure, will do. I’ve been meaning to do a video on the Clips update but haven’t really used them much yet.
I have my first song completely arranged in Maschine. does this work the same as far as getting the song into a DAW for adding vocals, mixing and so on?
Yes, of course.
Only part I was confused on was the “selecting the scenes” part in the DAW. How exactly did u do that? Just highlight a certain amount of bars then what? Sorry just would love to understand that part
The idea is to separate the scenes in your DAW and copy and arrange them as you like. If you use Live, look into the “duplicate time” feature. If you’re using another DAW, there may be a similar feature but the idea is to copy, extend and edit the scenes to form an arrangement.
Can you show how you got the end result step by step I love Ableton but once I get my maschine session over I don’t know what effects to add to make my song sound clean.
So you mean a video on mixing? Because I don’t only do the mix in Live, I also do the arrangement. Actually good arrangement, setting proper levels and using good sounds to begin with, makes for a clean mix before even adding effects. But yeah, I will try to do a more detailed video, I just wanted to keep this one short. Thanks for the suggestion. 👊
Low Heat Beats I worded it weird but thanks for understanding 😊
Thanks bro for all your super dope videos;) i follow the same concept as you. But i really would love to export all individual scene and their assigned patterns. Is there a way to it? Somehow this topic is never discussed at NI and honestly they a really bad support.
Thx bro,;)
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Chris
Thanks for watching the videos! If I understand you correctly, I think the "Split by section" option does this. Is that the one that you're looking for?
Hey man, thanks für for answer. Yes but would like to have this in midi😊
Is there a way to just export the patterns that are used in a scene? I keep getting every pattern (used and unused) for each scene. This makes it hard to parse the copying and pasting on files into Ableton.
Not sure man, why don’t you remove unused patterns before exporting?
if export sounds only sound level and efx matters you don´t get maschine group volumes, master volume or efx either, Am I right? I wondered maybe yrs why maschine export sounds so different when it is exported on ableton..
Yup, you’re totally right, that’s the reason.
Hey. After I dragged and dropped I can't get them to sync and play together. What am I doing wrong?
You haven't turned off warping in Live - it's mentioned in the video.
my session from maschine exported but the drag and drop method is only giving one track !
do u know what would cause this problem
You need to hold Ctrl on Win or Cmd on Mac before dropping the files into Ableton.
How many ways are there to integrate songs in Ableton from Maschine ? I want a midi export, not an audio one ! Thx a lot
Sure, you can export MIDI as well.
Hi again. If you have a chopped up sample on 16 pads, do you export all 16 samples onto 16 tracks seperatley or just export all as 16 one single track
If you mean a melodic sample, no, because I usually treat it as one single element of my track, so I don't need to apply different processing to different chops. But that would depend on how you use the sample, so your approach may be different.
@@LowHeatBeats thanks.. I have been wondering if someone buys the beat...if they want stems from the sample part or not.
Great video man very educational and clear. This is stupid but whats that command to set all the sounds in diffrent channels automatically in windows??? game changer simple shit lol
Thanks man much appreciated! On Windows you hold Ctrl while dragging the audio files.
@@LowHeatBeats Thanks bro, and last thing. Do you now if when you export this tracks, they export with all the processes and fx on? Or in ableton you will have the stems raw just the original sound bypassed? Cause i tend to do a lot of processing in the same maschine producing stage and i want it to sound in ableton the same it does in maschine, and then end the arranging and stuff there.
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Thanks
Hey I know you mention that the drag and drop workflow is kind of a pain, but could you maybe do a video on it anyway? Or point me in the direction of a good video going over the process, I’m still figuring out my ideal workflow so I think know how it would work would help me.
Sure man, I can do a video. I don’t think there’s much to it, you just drag and drop patterns as audio into a DAW after you build them in Maschine.
@@LowHeatBeats ahh i see, then maybe i just need to try it out and see. Thank you!
Thank you for this, I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this and I couldn’t figure out how to explain myself to someone.. my only
Issues I’ve come cross is that when I load this into ableton it bogs down ableton and I don’t know why.
Glad it was helpful! So Ableton freezes when you load the exported audio into it?
@@LowHeatBeats yea it freezes and everything inside the software is delayed, the sound is fine when it plays but it can take like 1-2 minutes to start and another minute to get it to stop once it plays.. but loading a track from ableton there’s no issue..
Well, that sucks but it has nothing to do with exporting from Maschine
Same method I use
Yeah man, works pretty well.
Would this work with the Maschine Mk2? I really dig that track, super hip Heat
Thank you! Yeah it would work, it doesn’t matter what controller you have, it’s the same software.
Sick good stuff. Time to shed!
Peace fam Export on Maschine is a hit or miss for me with kontack instruments it drops out sounds it’s so frustrating any idea why it happens
That sucks fam. No idea tho, works fine here.
If you had to choose just one, MK3 or Push2?
Tough question man, did you watch my MK3 vs Push 2 comparison video? I’d say the Push 2 because with Ableton you can do everything, not because the actual controller is better.
Die you export your single tracks with FX on them or do you bypass them an rebuild them in Ableton later on when doing your mixdown? I leave everything on that has to do with sound design like distortion, bitcrusher but bypass FX like reverbs, compression.
Your approach is pretty good, adding better quality reverb and compression while mixing in Ableton might give you better results. But I don’t disable any FX, except for the Group FX on the drums, which are disabled automatically because I export the separate sounds from the group. Then I add saturation and compression in Ableton. I prefer to keep the Maschine FX because it saves time and I can never recreate exactly the same vibe when adding FX later.
@@LowHeatBeats I get your point on recreating the sound you had in Maschine is difficult to recreate in a DAW.
@@LowHeatBeats Hey man, thats exactly my question, does it export the tracks with the FX on automatically by default? Or does it exports the audio tracks bypassed and you have to select that yourself?
I agree with this technique! routing is way too much and doesn't make you take full advantage of Maschine! Btw, i see you have made more videos on Maschine mk3. I own a Maschine Mk2 and I have a buget to either upgrade to mk3 or to get a Push2.. im really torn on what to do! What's your opinion? Ps i know Ableton and Maschine very well. I love maschine how quick it is but Ableton is obviously a better Daw!
Yes, exactly, it's a hard choice, they both have pros and cons.There are so many things to consider, so it's going to be a long answer so I'm going to make a new Push vs Maschine video (I do have an older one) and will explain there.
Low Heat Beats amazing!! Thank you!! Looking forward to it!