Maschine MK2 hardware+Ableton MIDI mode Scale/Octave/ Knobs

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preppietrash
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Maschine MK2 hardware+Ableton MIDI mode Scale/Octave/ Knobs

Post by preppietrash » Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:33 pm

(also posted on NI forum but I thought I should post it here as well)

My setup:

  • Maschine MK2 Firm. V26
    Software 1.8 (currently not using on my production workflow)
    Ableton 9.1
    MASCHINE Controller Driver 2.7.0
    Controller Editor 1.7.4
    Macbook Air 2014
    OS X Yosemite
    Macbook Pro 2012
    OS X Mountain Lion
My Problem:
  • while in MIDI controller mode with the NI factory Ableton 9 template, I cannot get the 'Scale/Octave/BaseN' knobs to work- these knob mappings are located on the 'Knob settings' page which is Knobs page 8 and I have the pads on Note/Drum mode which is accessed by the 'Pad Mode' button

    they seem to only send data to only scroll upwards not downwards over the various settings (weird) so it will go thu the various scales (ionian, Blues, etc...) but if I pass one I can't scroll back to it... same for the octaves and the baseN knob these are the four buttons under the right LCD

    for sure I know these knobs work hardware wise because I tested them on a friends Traktor Pro for effects Dry/wet and I use them on my DJ sets with serato DJ for the SP6 bank volumes

    also I loaded the same template on my old Macbook Pro 2012 running Mountain Lion and all the same software as listed above and still behaved the exact same way
My Questions:
  • is this just a known bug of the factory template?
    if so- is there a workaround?
    inside Ableton live how does one go about mapping these functions, and what are the parameters I have to assign in controller editor to the knobs?
    if I press the MIDI mapping button on Ableton I see two arrows (<- and ->) above the piano roll are these the octave up down

    the rest of the template seems to work fine... I don't use Ableton in session view but I did load it up with samples and all of the triggering, mute, solo, launch clip, and other mapped functions of the template seem to work as they are supposed to... and I f I make a rack and open the macro section I can map all 8 knobs on Maschine to the Ableton macros and they behave the correct way IE (right to increase parameter - left to decrease parameter)
thank you for taking the time to read my post

SgmFranKo
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Re: Maschine MK2 hardware+Ableton MIDI mode Scale/Octave/ Knobs

Post by SgmFranKo » Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:18 pm

I have the same problem!!! No solution at the moment and not enough information on the web.

preppietrash
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Re: Maschine MK2 hardware+Ableton MIDI mode Scale/Octave/ Knobs

Post by preppietrash » Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:11 pm

Hopefully someone will point us in the right direction

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