Rage Against the Maschine

Sam Lerner
Nov 6 · 11 min read

I have a Native Instruments Maschine Mikro (pictured below):

The box itself and the software that come with it are great but I’ve always felt like I could use it for more than just music. In this post, I will be describing how I reverse engineered the Native Instruments interprocess communication (IPC) protocol in order to liberate the Mikro (MK2). Let’s get to it!

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