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2.7 Integrating MASCHINE into Your MIDI Setup
You can quickly integrate MASCHINE into your MIDI setup.
You can use MIDI in MASCHINE in various ways. Notably:
▪ You can synchronize a MIDI Clock signal between MASCHINE and other MIDI devices:
↑2.7.2, Sync to External MIDI Clock and ↑2.7.3, Send MIDI Clock.
▪ If you connect a MIDI keyboard to the MIDI IN, you can directly play the focused Sound
with it without having to set anything up.
▪ You can let particular Sounds and Groups react to incoming MIDI data and send MIDI da-
ta to the desired port. More on these in section ↑8.2, Using MIDI Control and Host Auto-
mation.
▪ You can also switch Scenes remotely by sending MIDI Note or MIDI Program Change mes-
sages to MASCHINE. More on this in section ↑13.4, Triggering Scenes via MIDI (MA-
SCHINE Plug-in Only).
2.7.1 Connecting External MIDI Equipment
To connect your external MIDI equipment, hook it up to your MIDI interface and activate the
corresponding MIDI inputs and/or outputs in the MIDI page of the Audio and MIDI Settings
panel (see ↑2.6.2, Audio and MIDI Settings – Routing Page).
2.7.2 Sync to External MIDI Clock
If MASCHINE is running as a stand-alone application, it can be controlled externally via MIDI
Clock by any device that is capable of sending MIDI Clock. This could be hardware such as a
drum machine, another groovebox or sequencer, or even another software sequencer.
If you use MASCHINE as a plug-in, it is automatically synced to the host application so you
don’t have to activate external MIDI sync! See section ↑2.4, Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
for more information on using MASCHINE as a plug-in.
To enable this, select the Sync to External MIDI Clock entry from the File menu:
Basic Concepts
Integrating MASCHINE into Your MIDI Setup
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