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
  • Basic playback control, loop metronome ON / OFF, and tap tempo
• Session View Control
  • Clip and scene trigger and stop
  • Copy and delete available
  • Fixed-length recording
• 3 Keyboard Modes (Auto-switching)
  • 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 and edit simpler slices
• Additional Features for Keyboard Modes
  • Note repeat
  • Fix note-on velocity to 127
  • 16 fixed velocity levels mode for selected note pitch / drum pad / simpler slice
  • Select notes in clip
• Step Sequencer
  • Edit clip notes by pressing pads (tweak note position / length / velocity available)
  • Select focused bar by group buttons
  • Copy, paste, and erase each bar
• Touch Strip Features
  • Pitch bend
  • Control device / mixer parameter
  • Crossfader control
• Device Control
  • Select device and control its parameters
  • Custom parameter banks are 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
  • Change crossfader assign
• Clip Editor
  • Edit various clip properties
  • Example: clip start, clip length, loop settings, warp settings, launch settings, mute, pitch, gain, etc.
• Simple Browser
  • It works!… But it's isolated from Ableton Live's internal browser
  • Hot-swap available
• 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
• 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

Documents

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

Support

Contact via NI forum thread or open GitHub issue

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