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
Quantization when Editing Multiple Events/Notes at Once
When you drag multiple notes (or their duplicates) on the time axis or resize them according to
the Step Grid, the various notes in the selection are affected as follows:
▪ The note you click is moved or resized according to the quantizing rule described above.
▪ All other notes in the selection are moved or resized by the same amount (regardless of
their own quantizing rules). When resizing, if the notes have different lengths the length
differences are retained as long as no event becomes shorter than one step.
For example, if you have a drum roll, a flam or any custom sequence happening right be-
fore a beat, this allows you to move the whole sequence to another beat with a perfect tim-
ing while keeping its feel untouched.
Dragging vs. Nudging
Dragging with the mouse is different from the Nudge command on your controller:
▪ Whereas dragging is based on the Step Grid, the Nudge command is based on the Nudge
Grid (see section ↑7.1.7, Adjusting the Step Grid and the Nudge Grid).
▪ Whereas you can drag notes beyond the end of the Pattern, nudged notes reaching the
end of the Pattern are automatically sent to the beginning of the Pattern.
▪ If a note is not on a Step Grid division, dragging it with Step Grid enabled will alternate
between snapping to Step Grid divisions and snapping to positions that preserve its origi-
nal offset with the Step Grid (see quantization rule above).
In the software the Nudge command is not available with your mouse but via a keyboard short-
cut:
►
Press [Alt] + the left/right cursor key on your computer keyboard to nudge the selected
notes by one Nudge Grid division. If no event is selected, all events in the Pattern will be
affected.
See the hardware section below for more information on the Nudge command.
7.4.4.1 Editing Selected Events/Notes on the MASCHINE STUDIO Controller
Your controller provides various features in order to edit the events you have selected.
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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