Appendix C: Tips For Playing Live; Preparations; Focus On The Hardware; Customize The Pads Of The Hardware - Native Instruments Maschine Reference Manual

16 Appendix C: 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.

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.

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
section 2.4.5, "Preferences – Hardware Tab," to learn how to do that)—you will have even
more fun playing MASCHINE.

16.1.3 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 one of the older kind. So before you get on stage, give your live set a thorough performance
check by first playing it at home.
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