Maschine is driving me crazy!! MPC maybe?

[tjgerard87]

Okay folks, for you maschine users that use maschine purely as a production tool (no live performances) you often deal with the pains of running multiple instances of maschine in pro tools or exporting midi that triggers only the pad you want to record and continuing this process with each pad that you are using, one by one. Personally, this drives me nuts. With my most recent purchase of the KK S49 MK2, the majority of the functionality I'm looking for (midi control) is now available with this device, with a pretty dope display screen. it ALMOST defeats the purpose of having the maschine... ALMOST... I still want the pad functionality and the sampling maschine has to offer. I found I can route audio from pads to individual tracks within pro tools and disable auto low latency. Although it monitors in sync, the moment I tap record the timing is COMPLETELY off. Uh, bummer... If I want to have pitch changes in my drum sounds, I have to have a separate instance of maschine open, with only that sound triggered in the maschine. Now I can record midi data on my keyboard directly in pro tools that trigger that note in maschine. deeats the purpose of having another 15 really cool pads to look at. I would like to be able to do this with multiple pads within the same instance of maschine. Ideally, I could have multiple midi tracks within pro tools that would trigger there own individual pad within one group on maschine. This would be amazing with my style of producing. And since exporting midi works perfectly without latency, theoretically, this SHOULD work. At the end of the day, I want to do everything in pro tools, but use a production station in a similar way that I can use komplete kontrol... writing, triggering and sequencing midi directly from pro tools into the production station as well as being able to simply write the midi data while using the production station. Yes I have Komplete Ultimate, but my S49 MK2 gives me access to 99% of the sounds in that pack and expansions. Does Akai offer this functionality? Should I look into the push? Is there another way to make maschine work in this way that I have not found? Let me know!

Thanks!