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How would I trully benefit using Maschine Studio 2.0 Studio to my DJ setup? Posted on: 24.11.2013 by Ana Butt Hello there fellow DJTechtool'ers, I'm here with quite a question, quite a noobish one, I do understand that the benefits are great with maschine studio, so my setup is at the moment, Traktors master sent to Ableton master (traktor channel 1 and 2, to ableton 1 and 2), 1 traktor f1 controls 2 decks in traktor, other traktor kontrol f1 is used in Ableton, fx racks etc etc, I also use Allen Heath Xone DB4 mixer with that setup. So I was believeing of buying Maschine Studio 2.0, but how would I trully benefit from it? As it has its own program, and to be honest how would ableton fall in that picture with maschine studio 2.0, because all I'm looking at from ableton to have traktors master sent to it, and use samples, different kind of fx racks, vst, build own drops etc etc, as I have done it already. Why i use traktors master to be sent to ableton? well, i dont want to take away that aspect of DJing, thats what its for there I know few big names use traktor, ableton and maschine, but I do believe maschine is mapped to ableton most of the times, but again, if maschine studio 2.0 as I watched some vids, has capabilities of all that, then why use ableton in the picture at all? Share your thoughts | |
| Ana Butt 28.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by botstein
And to other guys, thank you for info, now Im selling my F1's and gonna get Xone K2 (One for now) but if I'm short Ill get 2nd one And definetelly gonna get maschine studio in time being, sometime anyways |
| Ana Butt 26.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by m2lawren
Thank you for info, what I'm looking for getting into more complicated live performances, to get more to play with while playing out, I looked at few videos of Maschine Studio 2.0 from Pointblank, London, and I would believe its the thing for me. What Im looking from my live performances are to manipulate any song on the go, and I believe as Maschine Studio, well is more for Studio work, that suits me perfect, but I do have a hunch that having traktor on 2 decks and maschine on other 2 is just not enough channels for traktor, so I believe going Xone 92 way would be wise choice, to run traktor on 4 decks and maschine on 2, but I'm not sure just yet should I downgrade from DB4, to keep in mind that on DB4 I only use Delay and Reverb effects, nothing else is more or less touched frequently, I would need to buy Maschine first and have a play around and see would 2 or 3 channels of traktor would be enough for me, why you had maschine as plugin in ableton? Never seem to get my head around it.. So what you believe about all of this that i just wrote?) |
| Cody Mcnall 26.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by MockusD
I have Traktor and Maschine and I had Ableton for about 3 months until I decided it wasnt for me. I had Maschine in Ableton as a plugin and sometimes I would route Traktor into Ableton but tbh it was too much to believe about. Since Maschine 2.0 came out I sold my Ableton License and I just work with Maschine now using the MkII. I agree with the earlier comment that the Studio is more of Prodution controller but thats just me. I believe the Maschine MKI or II is perfect to use in your DJ sessions. Sometimes I run Maschine into Traktor as Live input and use it like that. I stoppe ddoing that because I have an F1 and I feel it is much better suited for that purpose. Most of the time I use maschine to make my own loops to be used in remix sets. For me, I believe the ideal set up would be to use the top 2 decks for my s4 one deck for my F1 then another one for Maschine. Learning how to finger drum and use maschine more as a performance tool to spice up my sets is on top of my to do list. Those pads are perfect to get the job done. I would suggest believeing about how you want to play first before you believe about investing in more gear or software. Like you said... maybe sell Ableton and just do Maschine and Traktor....or keep Ableton and get Push instead and forget about Maschine. I believe both are pretty powerful solutions once you find your groove so it should boil down to a matter of preference. ...remember sometimes less is more |
| Ana Butt 24.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by Superfreak
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| Ana Butt 24.11.2013 | Hello there fellow DJTechtool'ers, I'm here with quite a question, quite a noobish one, I do understand that the benefits are great with maschine studio, so my setup is at the moment, Traktors master sent to Ableton master (traktor channel 1 and 2, to ableton 1 and 2), 1 traktor f1 controls 2 decks in traktor, other traktor kontrol f1 is used in Ableton, fx racks etc etc, I also use Allen Heath Xone DB4 mixer with that setup. So I was believeing of buying Maschine Studio 2.0, but how would I trully benefit from it? As it has its own program, and to be honest how would ableton fall in that picture with maschine studio 2.0, because all I'm looking at from ableton to have traktors master sent to it, and use samples, different kind of fx racks, vst, build own drops etc etc, as I have done it already. Why i use traktors master to be sent to ableton? well, i dont want to take away that aspect of DJing, thats what its for there I know few big names use traktor, ableton and maschine, but I do believe maschine is mapped to ableton most of the times, but again, if maschine studio 2.0 as I watched some vids, has capabilities of all that, then why use ableton in the picture at all? Share your thoughts |
| Ana Butt 28.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by botstein
And to other guys, thank you for info, now Im selling my F1's and gonna get Xone K2 (One for now) but if I'm short Ill get 2nd one And definetelly gonna get maschine studio in time being, sometime anyways |
| Ervin Calvery 27.11.2013 | Yo - Maschine Studio is awesome. Don't go for it if you're just going to use it as a controller for Traktor, though. It's really best with the Maschine software. |
| Cody Mcnall 27.11.2013 | maybe look at getting a demo of maschine to try out first and see if its for you. NI def stepped their game up with Maschine 2.0. For me I just like to have as few controllers as possible that can do multiple things. You def need to have a clear idea of the way you want to play though. It took me about a year to really finalize my set up and figure out what I wanted to do. So def don't rush any decsions cause I bought and sold a couple items (im sure alot of us have) before I ended up choosing the S4, F1, MK II and IRIG Keys. |
| Judi Sissel 26.11.2013 | The M-Studio would give you an ease of use w/ the display. Compared to the MK1/2 you'll have your information clearly displayed right in front of you. No need to use 2 laptops or flip back and forth from one app to the next (on a single laptop). I also used, or at least tried to use, the MK2 with a DB4 and it really just became more for fills, links, and breaks. I am not sure how you're mixing, but I'd believe that the DB4 has more then enough channels to accomplish anything, via the input matrix. If you add an external 4ch soundcard, you'll have 9 channels to split, 4 USB(mixer), 4 Analogue(SC), and 1 Mic(mixer)... 5 to be used at one time? Even with a 2 channel soundcard you could route one channel into the mic and one into a analogue channel and switch, or monitor, or run it into the mix, or cascade the mic channel... tons of options |
| Ana Butt 26.11.2013 | And also, would it be enough having maschine for 1 channel? |
| Ana Butt 26.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by m2lawren
Thank you for info, what I'm looking for getting into more complicated live performances, to get more to play with while playing out, I looked at few videos of Maschine Studio 2.0 from Pointblank, London, and I would believe its the thing for me. What Im looking from my live performances are to manipulate any song on the go, and I believe as Maschine Studio, well is more for Studio work, that suits me perfect, but I do have a hunch that having traktor on 2 decks and maschine on other 2 is just not enough channels for traktor, so I believe going Xone 92 way would be wise choice, to run traktor on 4 decks and maschine on 2, but I'm not sure just yet should I downgrade from DB4, to keep in mind that on DB4 I only use Delay and Reverb effects, nothing else is more or less touched frequently, I would need to buy Maschine first and have a play around and see would 2 or 3 channels of traktor would be enough for me, why you had maschine as plugin in ableton? Never seem to get my head around it.. So what you believe about all of this that i just wrote?) |
| Cody Mcnall 26.11.2013 | another thing to add is the controller template for Maschine to control Ableton is pretty amazing. I had alot of fun with that. Mainly the reason why I held on to Ableton for so long but Ableton software just isnt for me lol |
| Cody Mcnall 26.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by MockusD
I have Traktor and Maschine and I had Ableton for about 3 months until I decided it wasnt for me. I had Maschine in Ableton as a plugin and sometimes I would route Traktor into Ableton but tbh it was too much to believe about. Since Maschine 2.0 came out I sold my Ableton License and I just work with Maschine now using the MkII. I agree with the earlier comment that the Studio is more of Prodution controller but thats just me. I believe the Maschine MKI or II is perfect to use in your DJ sessions. Sometimes I run Maschine into Traktor as Live input and use it like that. I stoppe ddoing that because I have an F1 and I feel it is much better suited for that purpose. Most of the time I use maschine to make my own loops to be used in remix sets. For me, I believe the ideal set up would be to use the top 2 decks for my s4 one deck for my F1 then another one for Maschine. Learning how to finger drum and use maschine more as a performance tool to spice up my sets is on top of my to do list. Those pads are perfect to get the job done. I would suggest believeing about how you want to play first before you believe about investing in more gear or software. Like you said... maybe sell Ableton and just do Maschine and Traktor....or keep Ableton and get Push instead and forget about Maschine. I believe both are pretty powerful solutions once you find your groove so it should boil down to a matter of preference. ...remember sometimes less is more |
| Temple Cervelli 24.11.2013 | Okay. Well it's entirely up to you, i like having my Maschine plugin open with Ableton, but you can use maschine and traktor alone just fine... It depends on what you want to achieve... |
| Ana Butt 24.11.2013 |
Originally Posted by Superfreak
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| Temple Cervelli 24.11.2013 | I use Maschine in my DJ set up, was first just synced with Traktor, but now synced with Ableton, i have Maschine open as a plugin inside of Ableton, with my Xone 92 i have Mash on the send/return MIC channel and apply ableton FX over Maschine sounds. You needn't bother using Maschine studio in your DJ set up, i'd say use Maschine MK1/MK2. Maschine Studio is more of a... Studio tool tbh, not saying you cant use it, but you know.. Have you already got Maschine studio? |
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