Reply to S4 + MidiFighter + Maschine

Hi guys!

I've been DJing with the S4 and a Midifighter (Instant Gratification Mapping) for some months now. I love it, but I just feel that there are some FX I rarely use on my midifighter, and others in which I would want some more control (plus superknobs charm!).

I recently bought a Maschine for producing and I'm trying to figure out how to also integrate it with my traktor setup. I first thought of using Maschine alongside Traktor as a 4th deck to drop some live beats or self produced ones, or to sample what is sounding in traktor and play with it live. That kind of seems interesting, but also very hard to do, so I will work more on it. Also, I have to figure out how the hell to route everything up.

Anyway, in the meantime, I want to use the Maschine as a Midi controller. For those of you who have it or are believeing on getting one, how would you integrate it in your setup?

I've never been much of a beatjuggler (mostly because I never put the effort), but I'm believeing maybe use the Midifighter on bank mode with Cues 1-8 and a 4 button row to map the beatmasher in the instant gratification mapping.

Then I have the entire maschine for controling FX: knobs for delays, slices, reverbs and such (with superknob flavour) and pads for one-step FX. I also need to figure out how to map FX banks 3-4, I never tried it and don't know how to assign them since the S4 by default only lets you assign banks 1-2.

What do you believe? Can this be done? What would you do?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!


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