Importing Maschine Projects Into Logic (Absolute Best Method!)

Yoyo, back again with a detailed guide of Importing Maschine Projects Into Logic X! ✌️
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- - - - - Chapters - - - - -
Intro: (00:00)
Chapter 1 - Creating the Logic Track Stack: (00:10)
Chapter 2 - Setting Up Maschine Routing: (05:58)
Chapter 3 - Importing to other Projects: (11:28)
- - - - Logic Routing - - - -
- Create Maschine Multi-Output Software Track in Logic
- Go To Mixer in Logic - Add all extra outputs to Maschine instrument using the +.
- Create Extra Maschine Tracks
- Colour and Icon Tracks (optional)
- Create a Logic Summing Stack
- Label, Icon Maschine Track Stack Aux
- Input of Maschine Summing Stack - Bus 81
- Output The 16 Maschine Multi-Output Tracks to Bus 65-80. (Hold Alt Key!)
- Select the 16 newly created Aux Tracks
- Create 16 Audio Tracks
- Make Sure all the tracks are in the Track Stack
- Label, Icon tracks for clarity, organisation
- Rename the Tracks in the mixer for incremental naming.
- Aux Tracks - Output - Bus 81
- Audio (Record Tracks) - Output - Bus 81
- Audio (Record Tracks) - Inout - Bus 65-80
- Signal path - 16 Maschine Software Tracks into 16 Auxs Tracks into 16 Audio (record) tracks
- - - - Setting Up Maschine - - - -
Load Maschine Project
SAVE AS PROJECT!!
Remember to Write Down BPM!Choose Which Sounds or Groups to send out the 16 ext outputs in Maschine/Logic
- - - - Recording Into Logic- - - -
Arm Audio (Record) tracks
Turn Off Click While Recording
Got to beginning of track and press record!
- - - - Import into other Projects- - - -
Find The Template Logic Project
Drag into Project Window In Logic
Set Import setting for Tracks
Reset Summing Stack to Bus 81

[@manifest9215]

Thanks for this detailed explanation and great job just being concise. I'm switching over from Ableton because their price tag is ridiculous and I couldn't find a detailed tutorial on this setup in Logic. You saved my ass man I appreciate it! Liked/Subscribed

[@groovining]

All good mate! glad the vid helped you out. Logic is great, can do everything Ableton can. Just slightly different workflows etc. ✌️🥷

[@syntheon]

dude, this is what I was looking for! thank you so much!

[@groovining]

No worries dude, Glad it was useful for you! :)

[@VladScala]

Thank you so much. This tutorial is just perfect and really the best I’ve seen so far concerning this topic I’m going to apply it immediately, such a time savior, genius, and really adapted to my needs…so once again bigger thank you boss !!!

[@groovining]

Cheers Vlad! Glad this video is still helping people out. I've got a lot better at making them now so glad you could follow this so easily. I still use this template today for getting all my hardware synths and samplers into Logic 🚀✌️

[@TMeier]

Nice tutorial! I hadn’t thought of pre-assigning the audio tracks like that. That’s a nice workflow tip. If you don’t want to keep the aux tracks, once you have everything assigned you can remove the aux track input assignments and delete those tracks. Or to skip the aux tracks altogether, you can create the audio tracks first, assign their sequential input busses, and then assign they Maschine multi-outs to their sequential busses. This avoids automatically creating the aux tracks.

[@groovining]

Ah damn, that's actually a neat way of cleaning up those aux tracks - I should have included that in this tutorial! oh well 😊

[@user-op3hc2nk9o]

yes, this would be much faster to get auxes assigned automatically. but i would not recommend deleting them afterwards, because you never know when you’ll need to recall the session or maybe to punch stuff in. so, you basically can just hide them for the same aesthetics without losing the functionality

[@steveg8704]

Cool tutorial, a little quick for me (new to Maschine 2) but I get the idea. Thanks for putting this together.

[@groovining]

Thanks Steve - happy to have helped. Ill try pace the new one a bit better!✌️

[@modgrip805]

Great tut. Thank you 🙏

[@groovining]

Thanks for the comment mate. Glad you found it useful! :)

[@adriaanaaldijk2438]

Great workflow ❤

[@groovining]

Cheers Adrian, glad it helped you out mate :)

[@alfasonicstudios]

Great stuff. 95% of Maschine Tutorials on KZbin are outdated (probably because less people are using it?). It's great to see newer ones out there. Thanks

[@groovining]

Thanks mate. And yea I agree. I love maschine but a lot of people have lost interest in it recently. They need to get on and give us an update! 😊 🚀

[@niellseen]

The best explanation so far 😊

[@groovining]

Cheers Neil! glad you found this useful mate. It should be more easy to get this going in Logic! :)

[@christianhoper9378]

Awesome thanks so much.. this really worked and am so pleased! Was worried about having to pull in full mixes etc.. having separate tracks is a must for mixing.. I did notice that i get some clipping in logic but not in the Maschine mixer,are there any tricks to ensure that clipping is minimised? Do you use any of the isotope products to help mix in logic? Thanks again for taking the time to record this. 👍

[@groovining]

Happy it helped you out mate! if you've got clipping in Logic I would just pull down all the faders a couple of dB. Or a gain utility to pull down the master fader a couple of dB. Clipping is only a problem on your master channel. I don't use Izotope products but there very good. Logic has great native plugins also ✌️😊

[@maximeblais2032]

Awesome!

[@groovining]

Cheers mate ✌️😊

[@R8mondo]

This was soo useful. Routing audio around should be easier than this in Logic... this makes it really clear what to do. Thank you!

[@groovining]

Thanks for the comment! I agree it’s definitely quite a complicated process in Logic X but i truly believe this is the best way! :)

[@JaysonSantos]

Sheeeet! The best tutorial on youtube. You deserve 1M subscribers. Congrats for the nice work.

[@groovining]

Hey man - Thanks so much for the comment! I definitely made this video a bit too fast as I was still just getting into KZbin here butthe technique is definitely the best way to get Maschine into Logic. Cheers ✌

[@JaysonSantos]

@@groovining Now I am a subscriber. You are making fine content. keep going!

[@PavanSibal]

Great tutorial. Thanks. Subscribed. Please do a tutorial part-2 where you can show how to bring multiple scenes/patterns to logic. Thanks

[@groovining]

Thanks fort he sub! Yea for sure I will definitly get around to doing another maschine vid on this. To do multiple patterns/scenes I usually just perform on Maschine whilst recording the whole thing as one long take into Logic. Then simply cut the sections in Logic. 😊✌️

[@jaqndabox]

You have helped me with this one. Others have tried and failed. You have succeeded. Thank you.

[@groovining]

Thanks Jaqndabox, I saw there was a lot of videos on this topic that didn't quite get the process down. Logic X does seems to make it more complicated than other DAWs. Glad the vid helped you. :)

[@schooierd]

By FAR the best solution, nicely done!

[@groovining]

Thanks bro :)

[@CaptainCorpuscle1]

Holy Lord, THANK YOU. By far the best tutorial for this that I have come across.

[@groovining]

All good mate, thanks for the comment! happy you found this useful :)

[@KodiakKidbeats]

awesome video!

[@groovining]

Cheers mate! :)

[@Melemed]

Thank you so much for this! Can you tell me why when I try to hide the Maschine Stack, the Record 1-16 do not get grouped in with the Aux and Instruments and it does not minimize? Thanks so much!

[@groovining]

You might have to click and drag that stack in so it will mimize with the Aux & Instruments. Logic now supports two layers of stacks which makes things even easier since I made this vid. :) ✌️

[@VinylLS.]

Hi! I'm a Machine MK3 beginner and your video is so useful for me - thanks! Is there a possibility to record some beats or sounds from Machine directly into individual tracks in Logic X?

[@groovining]

Happy to help friend. I’m a little confused by your question. This video takes you through how to route individual sound/groups from maschine to individual tracks in Logic X.

[@autofocusedbeats]

Thanks! This was extremely useful! 😊

[@groovining]

All good mate, thanks for the feedback! :)

[@es0terra]

G in G- this is hands down the best tutorial on using Maschine in Logic. Thank you!!!! I prefer to produce and mix my music in Logic and I’m just looking to import Maschine groups (up to 16 groups) and patterns into Logic as midi, not audio, for greater control. How would you recommend I use your template with this goal in mind? Thanks.

[@groovining]

Thanks bro - glad it helped you out! I'm not sure its possible to record everyting in as midi like i've done in audio here. What you can do is to set Maschine up as a 'Multi-timbral' instrument in Logic. In this way you can send Midi information down different midi channels from Logic to Maschine. Its a little complicated but once maschine is loaded into logic you can select a maschine sound and go to the input - Souce is Host. Channel is 1-16. Then in the track area of Logic X (Top Left) you have to select the correct 'midi out' channels to line up with Maschine. Essentially what you can do is program 16 sounds of your choosing inside of Maschine from Logic X using midi in Logic not Maschine. You can also route these using something similar to my method to different output inside of Logic and have control in Logic of each of those tracks. So there is definitly a trade off. Either you producer more in maschine with the flexibilty of using loads of midi channels (16 per group) and record everything in as Audio and mix in Logic. Or you use a multi-timbral instrument to control 16 midi channels in Maschine which direct to individual sounds in Maschine. You could potentailly mix both of these together also :)

[@es0terra]

That makes sense I’ve gone the multi-timbral route you suggest for midi, but I’m limited to only using group A in machine, or that is my understanding. If I change to to a different group, like B, It messes things up.

[@es0terra]

I will try your method and see how I like audio.

[@groovining]

You could set this up to have the Multi-timbral playing sounds on different groups but its a lot of faf. Yea give the audio method a go. If you have good audio editing skills, you can do a lot with the individually bounced tracks. Good Luck :)

[@poisonsky]

Thank you for the updated template file! Three questions for you: 1. Would it make sense to create a template that follows Trevor Meier's suggestion below? 2. In your video is the point of the Aux tracks to give us a bus where we can add effects without selecting them in the individual instrument track? If not, what? 3. Question about the part of the video above which starts at 11:30 min: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2WahmqAZsZ4d8U Do we achieve proper routing if we select File --> New From Template and then import your .logicx template? When I open it this way it appears to me the track stack is still in tact and all the buses are routed the same (i.e. Instrument tracks route to Bus 65 through 80. All Aux and Record tracks say bus81). I don't know if this is new in the newer version of logic, but your method we can also use "Keep Bus Number" during the import process you mention starting at 12:40 min in

[@groovining]

Hi Antonia. I’ll give you a proper reply on all this tomorrow. Am just out atm :)

[@groovining]

Hi there. So the reason I have the Aux tracks and don't route directly to the audio tracks from Maschine is so that the actual channels in Machine play out the different Aux tracks. If you want to go directly into the audio tracks then you won't hear any sounds unless you turn on input monitoring on the audio tracks. I find this more fiddly to turn them on and off etc. than just muting the Aux channels once I've recorded everything in. Yes, you can also use the Aux tracks to add effects etc if you want to. Yes, the best way to use this template is to open it from that Template file. That Signal Path is correct. All the Maschine Outs -> Aux Inputs -> Audio Record Tracks. The Audio tracks and Aux tracks are in a track stack so that they can be easily muted and controlled from one place. I just wanted to show how you could import this template into another project if you needed to but I almost always start a new project with the template rather than importing it. The reason I've put all the buses/Auxes so far down is that it allows you to build projects on top of this template without all your buses 1-32 being taken up. It also allows you to import this template on top of your existing one a lot easier. Hope this clears things up - I realised watching back to the vid that I went through some stuff super fast! ✌

[@poisonsky]

Thank you for that thorough repsonse!@@groovining. It all makes sense now. I completed the first song I've done using that template yesterday and successfully recorded all the MASCHINE and vocal tracks the way the template was designed. The song is now in the hands of my mix/mastering engineer. I've shared this template with him as well. your generously supplied template is making a difference! In addition to the MK3 I use MASCHINE+ when traveling and away from my M1. so this is a big deal.

[@groovining]

@@poisonsky Hey, happy to help! glad it's all worked for you and was useful! I really appreciate your comment. I love my MK3 but have been eyeing up the MASCHINE+. SO many things to buy! Maybe next year :)

[@lilcleo001]

When I try changing each drum pad to its own ext, it doesn't work. I go from 1-8, and it seems to link them all. So once I get to ext 8, all pads are set to ext 8. Any tips?

[@groovining]

You should have Ext.1 - Ext. 16 giving you 16 outputs. These can be used for individual pads as well as groups. You bascially have to decide on the 16 most important aspects of your track to output.

[@pipster1001]

Would I need t add midi routings in machine to this themplate?

[@groovining]

Yes the midi routing will be different for every track you make in machine. As you have 16 midi channels you can use them for different things. I.e send some groups out midi channels 1-8 and then send specific sounds out 9-16

[@ZissonMusic]

Hey there, thanks for the tutorial, do you think you could share the logic/maschine template file? Not sure if that is even possible but if you can that would be awesome, thanks again!

[@groovining]

Hi yes. Look in the comments. I’ve linked the logic x template file! ✌️

[@ZissonMusic]

@@groovining thank you sir!

[@pipster1001]

could the new logic update improve on this template?

[@groovining]

I just saw that actually. I’m not sure it helps much with this template though. Everything is already neatly inside of a track stack. Unless you want to do more layers of bus processing I’m not sure it’s really relevant here.

[@MarcQuadagno]

This was very helpful. I have been struggling to find a way to record performance mode from Maschine directly into logic so that I can record my performances, live and then use those ideas to build my song structure in logic. Can you explain why you need the group of bus tracks? Why can’t you just send the 16 (multi-out) aux tracks from Maschine directly to the 16 audio tracks? Why do you need to route it from Maschine to 16 bus tracks before routing it to the audio tracks? If the audio from the Maschine instrument is going to the buses (Bus 65- Bus 80) - and - if the inputs for the Aux tracks and the inputs for the record tracks are both coming from the same Maschine instrument track stack (again, Bus 65-Bus 80)… then…. I don’t understand why you need the aux buses - I don’t understand why you can’t send the Maschine instrument directly to the audio record tracks? I haven’t tried anything yet I’m just asking. Thanks!

[@groovining]

Hi Marc! So, the reason I have the Aux tracks and don't route directly to the audio tracks from Maschine is so that the actual channels in Machine play out the different Aux tracks. If you want to go directly into the audio tracks then you won't hear any sounds unless you turn on input monitoring on the audio tracks. I find this more fiddly to turn them on and off etc. than just muting the Aux channels once I've recorded everything in. :)

[@MarcQuadagno]

​@@groovining I guess what I mean is, you have the Maschine tracks outputs going to Buses 65-80. It seems redundant because you have the inputs on the Aux tracks and the inputs on the Record Tracks set to Buses 65-80, and you have the outputs on the Aux Tracks and the Record Tracks both set to Output Bus 81. I guess it just seems redundant to have the middle group in the chain of your audio flow. I tried removing the middle group (the tracks you color BLUE in your video), and your template still works just fine for my purposes. So, regardless of any confusion I have, it's brilliant to have the Maschine tracks output to busses so that you can input them to audio tracks for recordings of live performances in Maschine. Sometimes, I prefer this to dragging the midi or audio files for all of my different scenes. Especially when I want to record live guitar or vocals over Maschine ideas quickly. I can arrange my scenes in Maschine and then hit record in Logic and record vocal or guitar ideas on top of the Maschine tracks. When I tried this method, but deleted the Aux tracks (the ones you colored BLUE) I didn't notice any difference in the input monitoring, and, again, regardless, I just appreciate you responding and helping me solve this issue!

[@groovining]

@@MarcQuadagno Ok, so looking at the template I can explain the reason more precisely. You need to have the Aux tracks as without them, you need to have the record tracks both selected and have input monitoring turned on for the audio to play through. This is not a good workflow. What I assume you have done is delete the aux tracks from the main arranger page however, if you go to the mixer page all the aux tracks will still be there performing the same function. The aux tracks essentially just make the template function better but they're not essential for the signal path. I'm happy the template has helped you anyways! I agree it's much better than dragging the audio as you can live perform everything from maschine in one nice take. :)

[@DWINC]

Dude are you available for a (paid) mini tutorial? I want to use Maschine in Logic as a sampler. I can load in the sample but have no sound (not in Logic using my Digiface) nor via a headphone directly in my Maschine. It’s driving me nuts🙏🏼

[@groovining]

I do 1-1 yes. I sure I could help you out - [e-mail] :)

[@dkkrecords]

3 hours on the routing ...i can see sounds hitting in group A 1-8 in masxhine mixer....nothing from group B or group C or E....i checked and double checked...can you highlight anything that could be missing....everything copied exactly....

[@groovining]

I'm sure it will have something to do with the output settings in Maschine. 6:58 - What you have to do is route the Maschine Groups out of the different Ext. 1-16. You essentially have 16 outputs from Maschine to send either Individual sounds or groups down. You need to assign these for them to appear in Logic. Go to the desired Group in Maschine. It will say Master in the 'Dest.' Slot. You need to change that to Ext.9 for example to go out channel 9. Let me know how you get on :)

[@dkkrecords]

@@groovining hey thanks for getting back...i finally got it to work...and it has thus far proved to be one of a few ways that i can use mk3 inside of logic....really intensive delivery ...and it was all solid...not sure where my glitch came from in the end...but i suspect it was in messing the numbers of bus 81 and buss 65.....using an mk3 image at 3000px is a neat add to the visual presentation of the whole set up...muchos gracias....

[@BensMusicDojo]

Native instruments are terrible, no product should require such extensive workarounds to use with one of the most popular daws.

[@groovining]

Yea its dumb for sure but its also a Logic X thing. People have other techniques out there for this but I assure you this is the best way to go about this.✌️

[@poisonsky]

This is truly the most sophisticated method for integrating MASCHINE in LPX! Thank you!! Quick Q for you, and I maybe I've missed something, but the template has an oddity: INST1 channel shown on the left below, is associated with Aux 16 (far right). All the other INST channels link to their respectively numbered busses. For instance: INST2 --> AUX2. It's a fairly simple matter of renaming these but wanted to check first if this was supposed to be like that or not. drive.google.com/file/d/1TvND2s4vutGVomBfVSmRy23f2tWRAN8u/

[@groovining]

Hi Athonia! - Thank you, yes I must have made an error when making the Template! I've put a corrected version of the file in google drive now. However, it is with the newer version of Logic X so it might not work for some users! You can simply alt-click the bus on Aux 1 and set it to 65 and all the others should change properly!