Appendix: Tips For Playing Live; Preparations; Focus On The Hardware; Customize The Pads Of The Hardware - Maschine mikro User Manual

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Appendix: Tips for Playing Live

MASCHINE is a very hands-on tool for producing music as well as for performing live. Here we
have specifically gathered some tips to help you when playing live. If you are used to playing
live, you may not need them, but maybe you will find some new ideas to integrate into your
set.
16.1

Preparations

16.1.1

Focus on the Hardware

In a live situation it is not very comfortable or intuitive to look back and forth from your laptop
screen running the MASCHINE software to the MASCHINE hardware controller.
16.1.2

Customize the Pads of the Hardware

Take your time to setup the pad sensitivity and velocity scaling to your personal taste (see sec-
tion ↑2.5.4, Preferences – Plug-ins Page
fun playing MASCHINE.
16.1.3

Check Your CPU Power Before Playing

Some things can be embarrassing, if for example, you are on stage and your computer starts to
have problems because it cannot handle the amount of effects you are using. Although the
MASCHINE software is programmed very efficiently, this might happen if your computer is
quite old. So before you get on stage, give your live set a thorough performance check by first
playing it at home. Have a look at the CPU meter in the MASCHINE software's Header to en-
sure it never turns red. If necessary, increase the
Settings – Audio Page).
to learn how to do that) — you will have even more
Latency value (see
Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
↑2.6.1, Audio and MIDI
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