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
4. Open the FILES pane of the Browser and navigate to the desired MIDI file (see section
↑3.5, Loading and Importing Files from Your File System to know how to use the FILES
pane).
5. Double-click the MIDI file or click it and press [Enter] on your computer keyboard.
→
The MIDI file will be imported to the selected Pattern for the focused Sound according to
the import rules described below.
MIDI to Sound – import rules: When you import a MIDI file into a Sound via its context menu,
MASCHINE assumes that the MIDI file contains data for one single instrument (e.g., a bass or
a lead synthesizer), and the import will be performed accordingly. Your MIDI file will be impor-
ted as follows:
▪ The imported MIDI data will replace any existing data (notes, MIDI tracks, and modula-
tion tracks) for that Sound in the selected Pattern. For the other Sounds the Pattern con-
tent won’t be affected.
▪ Any channel information in the MIDI file will be disregarded. All notes will appear in the
same Pattern for that particular Sound. If the same MIDI note number and MIDI CC num-
ber are used in different channels in the MIDI file, the note and automation data will be
merged. Conflicts will be resolved as follows:
◦ Note duplicates: only the longest note is kept.
◦ Modifiers (Mod Wheel, Pitch Bend, etc.), Velocity, and MIDI CCs: higher values are
kept.
Importing Multiple MIDI Files to a Sound or a Group
You can even select multiple MIDI files and import them all to a Sound or Group at once!
Contrary to the single-file import described above, importing multiple files doesn’t replace the
content of the selected Pattern — instead, for each MIDI file in the selection a new Pattern
will be created.
As a consequence, when importing multiple MIDI files you don’t need to select any particu-
lar Pattern beforehand.
To import multiple MIDI files to a Group:
1. Select multiple MIDI files in your operating system or in the FILES pane of the Browser.
Working with Patterns
Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
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