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Hi

I got a problem with Maschine, and hope you can help me?

When I program beats in Maschine, I do so and then drag the Midi files from Maschine to Ableton.
There I got a channel with midi to and from Maschine, and so I trigger the sounds in Maschine just like in any VST plugin, and that works fine.

But I don't want to copy/drag the midi files all the time, but just trigger the existing clips IN Maschine.
I want to click on one clip in ableton that triggers one specific clip in Maschine. Guess I should do something like dummy clips, but cannot figure out how to do it here...

Anyone with a simple step by step tutorial would be my hero for the rest of the week

You can trigger patterns or scenes in Machine using various settings of either Program Change, or midi note, also taking midi channel into account. I personally have yet to decide how I want to have the settings on mine :/

Also take into account the quantization settings and th retrigger settings for scenes and patterns on Maschine.

Thanks,
I figured it out an hour after I wrote this question...
Thanks a lot for your reply.

If I write the midi data in ableton (one channel for each group in Maschine, midi paterns in ableton that trigger the respective samples in Maschine) - easier to handle in ableton, but I lack important functions of Maschine then, like the 'swing' knob..., less 'live' feeling but rather preprogrammed, fixed situation.

If I write the midi data in Maschine, the sound gets better in terms of variability, options to tweak things in realtime, but creating 60+ scenes in Maschine in a row, triggering those via midi note/ program change in ableton is a bother to set up...

Not sure wich option is better for my workflow on stage.
what's your experience with this?