Appendix: Tips For Playing Live; Preparations; Focus On The Hardware; Customize The Pads Of The Hardware - Native Instruments Groove production studio Manual

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Appendix: Tips for playing Live

Since MASCHINE is a very hands-on tool for producing music as well as for performing live, we
figured we would gather some tips for you to get you started playing live. If you are used to
playing live, you may not need them, but maybe you will find some new ideas to integrate in
your set.
14.1

Preparations

14.1.1

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.
14.1.2

Customize the Pads of the Hardware

Take your time to setup the pad sensitivity and velocity scaling to your personal taste (see sec-
tion ↑2.4.6, Preferences – Hardware
fun playing MASCHINE.
14.1.3

Check your CPU Power before Playing

Some things can be very embarrassing, for example if you are on stage and your computer
starts to have the hiccups because it cannot handle the amount of effects anymore. 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.
Tab, to learn how to do that) — you will have even more
Appendix: Tips for playing Live
Preparations
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