Using Battery Kits With Maschine in Pad Mode

[@isabellapakulska]

By far one of the most underestimated video on Maschine on YT. Thank you very much for this, very helpful!! One little tip - instead of creating all the remaning sounds and setting MIDI one by one, you can just create 2nd sound, set the midi out and channel 1 an djust duplicate it all across. Root note still needs setting obviously..

[@mkirbymusic]

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I just ordered a Maschine MK3 after using MK1 for so many years and your Battery group download is going to make things so much more enjoyable for me. You got a new sub from fellow KZbin creator 🙏

[@aftalyfe]

You have no idea how glad it makes me to help people out like this! Thank you for watching and commenting, enjoy your MK3 when it arrives! 😄

[@ReynaldoIvanPena]

6:45 I have an Akai Mpk3 Mini, Did you have to assign the pads or should I get a Maschine Mk3? I ask because I am having serious problems customizing the pads with Battery’s layout. I switch to the 4x4 cell and it does absolutely nothing to customization. I use FL Studio and Pro Tools.

[@Martin1519]

this process seems really inconvenient since battery comes with like 1000 drum kits, this will take forever to do this on every battery kit I want to use. however this is something I didn't know before so I'm always happy to learn something new!

[@aftalyfe]

You actually need to do this for only one kit since they are mostly sorted out on the same keys. All you have to do then is save the maschine group with the routing and just load whatever kit you want on the sound 1.

[@andrewboos4338]

you can also set the battery prefferences to transpose up 2 octaves. then you only need to change semitones

[@3os_orofos]

any way to have the sounds separate in the mixer too?

[@ColinCharisma]

Thanks!! Extremely helpful.

[@AcidTechnoMan5000]

Does not work on my MK3. Followed everything exact.

[@BrianTullyPlus]

Anyone know if this can be used for other drum VSTs like Superior Drummer or Addictive Drums, or is this only for Battery? I ordered a Mikro Mk3 yesterday only to discover that the pads are not GM compatible so I'm thinking of cancelling my order. But if this script/template can be used for other drum libraries (or if there are existing templates for Superior Drummer/EZDrummer/Addictive Drums) that would be good to know.

[@D0YouLikeHam]

Am I missing something? What is the benefit of leaving Maschine in pad mode vs. switching to Keyboard mode? If I load a Battery kit into Sound 1, then open the Battery instrument, I see in battery that the pads are mapped from A1 (on key C1) through to D4 (on key D#2). If I switch Maschine to Keyboard mode, and use Octave- to make sure that the lower left pad (1) is set to C1, I now have pads on the Maschine controller mapped to the pads in Battery.

[@gamazonchad8309]

The transposition in Keyboard Mode will be lost the moment you switch back to Pad Mode. Moreover, using this method, you get to choose the Pad layout and only those desired Sounds! Thank you @Aftalyfe for detailed instructions and sharing other tips!

[@SPELTMUSIC]

not sure what i did wrong but i managed to route sounds 2-16 correctly to ge them playing the cell i want them to in battery but when i tried to save the group, and then load a new group with that group preset it reverted all of the midi destination and channels back to the defaults and left just the sound 1 with battery loaded on it. i tried "save as" and "save with samples" and got the same result. the saved group shows up and i can load it but it just doesn't have the changes that i made when re routing the midi for sounds 2-16

[@SPELTMUSIC]

never mind, figured it out, forgot to hit the routing button when loading the group... im dumb as shit

[@algokose4027]

You can also use the transpose dial in Maschine to change the note that the pad is triggering but I like your way better of actually changing the note. More efficient. Downloading your preset group as soon as I’m at my computer. Thanks!

[@Cupa68]

Thanks so much ! I was wondering if it possible for a while to use it....great tutorial

[@benoitparisot3245]

hi, thanks for the great tips! do you know if that is possible to route pads to different audio output? it seems that all my drum sound always output to one stereo out but I like to send it to my separate out to my analog mixer

[@funkuncle999]

Why doesnt it just default to having the battery layout match mashine so you dont have to re-map stuff? . is it just a coincidence that they both have 12 pads and look like they are designed to work together?

[@bazibada]

Thanks ! I was thinking about using battery, but I notice that the pads order in the plugin is reversed vertically ? compared to the layout on your maschine ? Actually it seems to me that most drum machines have pads that start bottom left, then fo to the right, and go up end of line. The Battery layout seems weird and confusing going down after one line, is that default ?

[@gmaxxbln]

Many Thanks to You! That's what I'm looking for! Finally I can use Battery with Maschine MK3!

[@aftalyfe]

And thank you for watching!

[@TheJgraham12345]

Thanks so much for this tutorial. Everything got mapped correctly. But do you know how I can put an effect on a particular pad/sound? For example, a reverb on just the snare. That’s not working for me. Any advice?

[@thatwasmeyyc]

Sounds like my cockatiels in the background.

[@libertyspikes666]

Good tutorial, just keep in mind your viewers are viewing your video and looking at the their maschines at the same time so it would help if you slowed down some of the button pushing and also got a sharper focus on your overhead cam.

[@aftalyfe]

Thank you, bought the cam during the first months of covid when webcam prices spiked like crazy, this was all I could afford at the time 😅 But yeah, thank you for the feedback, much appreciated!

[@themiltongroupstudios7943]

Good job 👏🏿 Bro explaining

[@derrickm5013]

so ive looked and looked, forgive me. There's pretty much no way to have a battery kit act just like a maschine kit without a bunch of rerouting and bs? I would love to be able to use battery 3 kits as drop ins for maschine but you can't seem to do the individual instruments with their own keyboard. Please help?

[@iam_jam_ali]

Is there anyway to use this setup with battery kits that have more than 2 octaves? Not 4x4 but maybe 16 x 4

[@aftalyfe]

I think your best bet for this scenario would be to find a controller with 64 pads. Since Maschine only has 16 sounds in one group this would always limit you to triggering only 16 samples without extra input. But if you still would like to use Maschine in this way you could create 4 different groups that trigger 4 different set of sounds and then load a kit with 64 samples on sound 1. However, I think you would have to load the same kit in each of the groups, as I dont think it's possible to route midi between groups. Might be wrong though, haven't actually tried it.

[@HansAlbers10000]

@@aftalyfe only way is using keyboardmode and change the settings in battery. By the way, I really dont't understand NI not implement pad mode with pages and more than 16 sounds. You could set up for instance normal drum sound on page 1 and percussions on page 2. There seems to be a lack of imagination by the developers as it appears very often by NI.

[@aftalyfe]

I think technically groups would be pages in that context.

[@solololobro2167]

Thank you aaaaaa loooot! This video save me. I can apply it using my Machine Plus.

[@J.PAUDA-Audio]

Thank you soooo much.

[@davelefebvre5106]

Thanks! This was a great tutorial!

[@NRVE8]

so you have to open mashcine inside FL? what a waste of CPU just to use battery

[@azumx5543]

bester Mann, du hast endlich mein Problem gelöst. Liebe für dich!

[@aftalyfe]

Danke fur dein comment!

[@ALEBeatz]

@@aftalyfe Hey, when i export the Project, I will not get individual Stems of Snare and Hihat and so on. Because your Version is routing all Sounds zu Sound 1. How can i use all Pads only for an single Sound like snare etc and still get single stems?

[@Lelexx1982]

Hi! Amazing tutorial man, really! I'd have a question. Would u be able to use any pad as a single midi track to record in multitrack all the drum kit in the DAW? THANK YOU, AGAIN.

[@Iricard001]

Is there a way to play the synths from battery on the piano? I put it in keyboard mode and get the same note/same sound.

[@aftalyfe]

What you could do is create a pattern with just the sound from the kit you would like to play on the sound slot where your kit is loaded and then drag and drop this onto a new sound slot and keep that sound unaffected by any routing so that it's independent from the rest of the kit. There is an option to drag and drop midi and audio in the upper right corner of the note editor. Then you can play that sound via keyboard mode. It sounds like a hassle, but is actually just a few clicks. 😄

[@D0YouLikeHam]

pay attention to the notes the pads are mapped to... default seems to be C1 to D#2.. everything below C1 plays the same sound as C1, and everything above D#2 plays the same as D#2.

[@sir.torantino]

That was useful... thank u for this video 🙂

[@aftalyfe]

Thank you for watching!

[@TaRiqTheVisionary]

Can’t you midi learn as well?

[@FluxStage]

It's crazy this still dosn't happen auto beeing both from NI.

[@Only1Science]

Thanks for the vid! If all sounds are routed via Battery, when it comes time to export individual sounds, will it just export a stereo file or will they come out as individual files?

[@aftalyfe]

I have to admit I haven't actually tried to export it, but it should work the same way it's working for regular sounds. You can specify when exporting that you want to export individual sounds, I dont see any reason it wouldnt work.

[@petrknedlik]

Why don't you just add battery from the groups? Anyway, thanks for the midi routing tutorial in FL. Very handy :)

[@aftalyfe]

Hey, thank you for commenting! The answer to your question is that this workflow extends to any kind of drumkit vst. And also there might be battery kits that dont exist as groups, for example custom ones.

[@systemlord001]

this is what way better then the video above

[@Trinibest1]

I am getting Battery wouldn't error can someone help??..I don't know to change location

[@gummybz4719]

BUT HOW CAN I EXPORT INDIVIDUAL SOUNDS 😢😢 Each sound is correctly assigned to a channel of the maschine mixer, but when i export, my files are empty 😔

[@jReze]

Seems to be better off just loading Battery to each sound bank.

[@ricos2374]

Hi, I'm a maschine user but I've never used battery, what is the advantage of making a pattern in battery, than doing it only in maschine

[@aftalyfe]

You don't have to use it, if you just want to lay down a groove maschine on its own is more than capable of doing it. That being said there are some battery kits that are not available as groups in maschine so this would come in handy in that case.

[@ricos2374]

@@aftalyfe Thanks

[@stefan1977full]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@aftalyfe]

And thank you for watching! ❤

[@Marie-ft6sd]

Thanks for this video!! Do you know if we can play with the pads of Maschine (after having triggered each cells with Battery) directly recording in the DAW; I mean without using Mashine interface?

[@aftalyfe]

Thank you for the comment! Not sure if I am understanding correctly, but it depends on what do you want to record, midi or audio?

[@Marie-ft6sd]

@@aftalyfe tks for your answer!! I want to record Midi directly in my daw, playing battery through Maschines Pads, (not using the maschine software)

[@aftalyfe]

Thats easy, you either have to open a software called controller editor and set the pads of the maschine controller to the same key the pads in battery are set to OR open battery in your daw and set the keys for the pads according to what note each pad is sending.

[@Marie-ft6sd]

@@aftalyfe thank you 🙏🙏🙏 I m gonna try that!

[@omnione7894]

Great video very helpfull

[@henryblack2645]

Thank you very helpful my brother

[@Sebasnurv]

Very helpful, thanks!!!

[@aftalyfe]

Thank you for watching!

[@iangrice5511]

Wish you could simply drag a sample to a cell

[@HansAlbers10000]

than you, good explanation!

[@aftalyfe]

Thank you for feedback ❤

[@Brian-nz6ns]

Just saying, it's really hard to see what you're doing on the Machine due to the camera angle you have setup. Makes it hard to follow.

[@aftalyfe]

Thanks for feedback, well aware, planning on getting better cam and doing more videos 😁

[@morgan8937]

Unless I'm doing something wrong, this doesnt work on maschine mk3 in 2023.

[@renesoundso3523]

perfect !!!

[@aftalyfe]

Thank you!

[@pulsesoundsystem]

Isolate your mic from your desktop / shelf.

[@aftalyfe]

Thanks for the feedback, I noticed that low end build up so I connected it to another surface, should be fine for the next videos 😄

[@AcidTechnoMan5000]

How in the fuck do you load sounds per pad? Frustrating as FUCK.

[@D0YouLikeHam]

I just created this video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGPPgYifgtCZes0 to show how I did it... and then found this relatively recent (and better) video showing the same approach: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIXZhZifrpV8qK8

[@abrekansar]

Bird is annoying 😒