User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- 1 Welcome to MASCHINE!
- 2 Basic Concepts
- 2.1 Names and Concepts You Should Know
- 2.2 Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- 2.3 Common Operations
- 2.4 Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- 2.5 Preferences
- 2.6 Audio and MIDI Settings
- 2.7 Integrating MASCHINE into Your MIDI Setup
- 2.8 Using Footswitches with Your MASCHINE STUDIO Controller
- 3 Browser
- 3.1 Browser Basics
- 3.2 Searching and Loading Files from the Library
- 3.3 Additional Browsing Tools
- 3.4 Editing the Files’ Tags and Properties
- 3.5 Loading and Importing Files from Your File System
- 3.6 Locating Missing Samples
- 3.7 Using Quick Browse
- 4 Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
- 4.1 Overview of the Sounds, Groups, and Master
- 4.2 Managing Sounds
- 4.3 Managing Groups
- 4.4 Exporting MASCHINE Objects and Audio
- 4.5 Importing Third-Party File Formats
- 5 Playing on Your Controller
- 6 Working with Plug-ins
- 6.1 Plug-in Overview
- 6.1.1 Plug-in Basics
- 6.1.2 First Plug-in Slot of Sounds: Choosing the Sound’s Role
- 6.1.3 Loading, Removing, and Replacing a Plug-in
- 6.1.4 Adjusting the Plug-in Parameters
- 6.1.5 Bypassing Plug-in Slots
- 6.1.6 Using Side-Chain
- 6.1.7 Moving Plug-ins
- 6.1.8 Alternative: the Plug-in Strip
- 6.1.9 Saving and Recalling Plug-in Presets
- 6.2 The Sampler Plug-in
- 6.3 Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins
- 6.1 Plug-in Overview
- 7 Working with Patterns
- 7.1 Pattern Basics
- 7.1.1 Pattern Editor Overview
- 7.1.2 Navigating the Event Area
- 7.1.3 Following the Playback Position in the Pattern
- 7.1.4 Jumping to Another Playback Position in the Pattern
- 7.1.5 Group View and Keyboard View
- 7.1.6 Adjusting the Pattern Grid and the Pattern Length
- 7.1.7 Adjusting the Step Grid and the Nudge Grid
- 7.2 Recording Patterns in Real Time
- 7.3 Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
- 7.4 Editing Events
- 7.5 Recording and Editing Modulation
- 7.6 Creating MIDI Tracks from Scratch in MASCHINE
- 7.7 Managing Patterns
- 7.8 Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
- 7.1 Pattern Basics
- 8 Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- 9 Controlling Your Mix
- 10 Using the Drumsynths
- 11 Using Effects
- 11.1 Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
- 11.2 Applying Effects to External Audio
- 11.3 Creating a Send Effect
- 11.4 Creating Multieffects
- 12 Effect Reference
- 13 Creating a Song Using Scenes
- 13.1 Arranger Basics
- 13.2 Managing Scenes
- 13.3 Playing with Scenes
- 13.4 Triggering Scenes via MIDI (MASCHINE Plug-in Only)
- 14 Sampling and Sample Mapping
- 14.1 Opening the Sample Editor
- 14.2 Recording a Sample
- 14.3 Editing a Sample
- 14.4 Slicing a Sample
- 14.5 Mapping Samples to Zones
- 15 Troubleshooting – Getting Help
- 16 Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
- 17 Glossary
- Index
◦ Above the arrangement overview, you see the name of the Project, the focused Group
or the focused Sound (depending on which of the MASTER, GROUP or SOUND tab is
selected in the software’s Control area) along with the current tempo and playback po-
sition.
▪ The right display provides a detailed view of a portion of your Pattern:
◦ The name of the selected Pattern is indicated at the top of the display (6).
◦ The velocity of each event/note is indicated by its transparency. If visible, selected
events/notes are highlighted.
◦ With the pads in Group mode, the display shows events for all Sounds in the Group.
The 16 Sound slots of the Group are represented in the leftmost column by their in-
dex number (5). The focused Sound is highlighted.
◦ With the pads in Keyboard mode, the display shows notes on two octaves for the fo-
cused Sound. On the left a piano roll (4) indicates the pitch of the various events. On
the piano roll, each C is indicated by its octave number and the middle C (C3 in the
MASCHINE convention) is colored. Additionally the pitch of any played note is high-
lighted. Turn Knob 7 to scroll on the pitch axis (vertical axis) from events at the lowest
pitch until events at the highest pitch. If all events are within two octaves, they all ap-
pear in the display and Knob 7 is inactive.
◦ Horizontally, the displayed time interval is variable: Turn Knob 5 and 6 to zoom and
scroll horizontally in the right display to your liking, respectively. You can also enable
Button 3 (FOLLOW) and let the right display follow the playhead as it travels through
your arrangement — see section ↑7.1.3, Following the Playback Position in the Pat-
tern for more information.
◦ As in the left display, you can see a timeline (7) at the top and a vertical playhead
indicator (8) across the entire display.
In Pattern Arrange mode the pads behave as in Control mode. In particular, this allows you
to record Patterns while seeing them developing in the displays! See section ↑7.2, Record-
ing Patterns in Real Time for more information on this.
Finally, the Pattern Arrange mode provides useful commands for the selected Pattern:
▪ Press Button 5 (EVENTS) to access Event Edit mode, which allows you to precisely adjust
the selected events (see section ↑7.4.4, Editing Selected Events/Notes).
Working with Patterns
Pattern Basics
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