Given the seemingly simple on/off nature of your Maschine controller’s Record button, you could be forgiven for missing the option to set the Pattern Length prior to recording by holding it down and turning Knob 4 or pressing Buttons 5-8. However, this mode does also let you hide and reveal the Browser and Control Lane section, switch between Arranger and Ideas views, and zoom and scroll the Arranger timeline and Pattern Editor. This is actually quicker than on Mk3/Studio, where you have to enter Software Navigation mode. Even less obvious is the button combo required to switch the top section of the Maschine software from the Arranger/Ideas view to the Mixer View: Shift and Navigate. If you’re using Maschine Mk1, Mk2 or Mikro, you do have similar functionality (albeit minus the flashy graphics), but how to get to it isn’t at all obvious: press the Shift and Sampling buttons. The Maschine Mk3 and Studio controllers make accessing their glorious onscreen mixer easy thanks to the big, obvious Mixer buttons. Now, playing any of the pads in the Link Group will trigger them all - ideal for quick layering of snare drums, percussion, etc. Step 3: Do the same for the next pad in the stack, assigning it to the same Link Group as the first, then repeat for as many more pads as you like.
In 3rds mode, for example, triads are laid out across sets of adjacent buttons, horizontally or vertically. Isomorphic keyboard modeĪlso new in Maschine 2.7, the Isomorphic keyboard mode for Maschine Jam takes inspiration from Ableton Push’s In Key mode, mapping only the notes of the chosen scale to the grid buttons, making it impossible to play out of key and easy to construct chords and riffs. And if you’re sequencing Bass Synth with Maschine Jam, you can use the top row of buttons in the step sequencer to turn Glide on and off for each step, aciiiid-style! 2. The tip here, then, is: don’t overlook Bass Synth! It may not be a particularly flexible or versatile instrument, but when you need a cone-rattling b-line in a hurry, it’s a fantastic option. It also comes with a decent list of presets (in the browser’s Sounds section), complete with effects chains. Like its stablemates Drum Synth and Sampler, Bass Synth has been designed with hands-on tweakability in mind, the main page offering control over oscillator waveform (morphing from sine to square via saw and triangle), filter (including envelope modulation) and distortion, and Glide on/off slipping into page 2. Maschine 2.7 introduced Bass Synth, a quick and easy monosynth with a beefy, squelchy 303-esque sound. If you want to give your Maschine skills a tune-up, read on.
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