CustomMaschineMK3

Ableton MIDI Remote Script for Maschine MK3 / Plus

Requirements

• Ableton Live 11: 11.3.35 or later
• Ableton Live 12: 12.1.10 or later
• Hardware: Maschine MK3, Maschine Plus

Install

See How to Install on GitHub Pages.

Feature Summary

See All Operations for exhaustive list.

• Transport Control
  • Play, stop and pause song
  • Loop and metronome on / off
  • Trigger record / capture MIDI
  • Tap tempo
• Session View Control
  • Launch, select, copy-paste and delete clips
  • Launch, delete and duplicate scenes
  • Quick page jump buttons available
• 3 Keyboard Modes
  • Normal: Typical MIDI keyboard integrated with Live's scale mode
  • Drum Rack: Trigger drum pads in Drum Rack device and pad LED colors reflect each pad color and states (mute or solo)
  • Simpler: If Simpler playback mode is "Slicing", You can trigger simpler slices
  • Auto-switching depends on inserted instrument type
  • Pad LED also reacts to note trigger from clip
• Additional Features for Keyboard Modes
  • Quick page / octave jump by using group buttons
  • Note repeat
  • Fix note-on velocity to 127
  • 16 fixed velocity levels mode for selected note pitch / drum pad / simpler slice
  • Select corresponding MIDI notes in clip
• Step Sequencer
  • Add or delete notes by pressing pads
  • Playback position highlight
  • Bars select buttons available
  • Select note velocity via 16 levels velocity mode
  • Copy, paste and erase each bars
  • Select each step notes in clip
  • Edit note properties (position, length, velocity)
• Touch Strip Features
  • Pitch bend
  • Assign device / mixer parameter to touch strip
  • Crossfader control and change channel assignment
• Device Control
  • Change focusing device
  • Select parameter bank
  • Enable, disable and delete device
  • Modify device parameter by using 8x knobs
  • Custom parameter banks like Push
    • Available for Simpler, Wavetable, EQ Eight, Hybrid Reverb, and Meld
• Mixer Control (updated to 8-track version since v1.3)
  • Change volume, panning and send amount
  • Select, arm, mute and solo track
• Clip Editor
  • Change clip start, clip end, loop start and loop length
  • Change various options (activation, loop, warp settings, launch settings, pitch, etc…)
• Simple Browser
  • It works!…But it's isolated from Ableton Live's internal browser
  • Select item and load it
  • Enable, disable sound preview
• Text Display
  • Show parameter values and states about selected mode
• Custom MIDI Mapping Mode
  • Dedicated 16x knobs and buttons (8 elements, 2 pages) for MIDI mapping
  • Work alongside other modes
• Various Operations
  • Change master track volume
  • Change groove amount
  • Fast-forward, rewind playing position
  • Jump to next or previous cue point
  • Change song tempo
  • Change scale options (on / off, scale mode, root note)
  • Switch main view between session and arrangement
  • Fixed length recording available in session view
  • Lock target track

Documents

https://chiakibeats.github.io/CustomMaschineDocs/

Known Issue

• LED feedback of custom MIDI mapping mode leaks into keyboard mode
  • This happens in the very low range notes (C-2 to G-2)
  • Currently under investigation, but you can play these notes normally