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
Please refer to section ↑2.3.3, Navigating Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pa-
ges in the Control Area to know how to access the MIDI page of the Input properties in the
software and from your controller.
The MIDI input settings for Sounds and Groups provide following parameters:
Controls Description
MIDI Section
Active (plug-in mode only) Enables the MIDI note input for the selected Sound/Group (disabled by de-
fault). Please refer to your host documentation to know how to route MIDI sig-
nals to your MASCHINE plug-in. Note that when Active is disabled for both a
Sound and its parent Group, if the Sound is focused it will receive MIDI notes
sent by the host (default behavior for Sounds).
Source (stand-alone mode
only)
Selects the MIDI port on which the Sound or Group will receive MIDI notes.
Available entries are None (MIDI note input disabled, default setting), All
(MIDI notes are received on all enabled input ports), and each enabled MIDI
input port. You can enable the desired MIDI input ports of your MIDI interfaces
in the MIDI page of the Audio and MIDI Settings panel (see section ↑2.6.2,
Audio and MIDI Settings – Routing Page). Note that when None is selected for
both a Sound and its parent Group, if the Sound is focused it will receive MIDI
notes from all MIDI ports and on all MIDI channels.
Channel Selects the MIDI channel on which the Sound or Group will receive MIDI
notes. If you select All (default setting), the Sound or Group will receive MIDI
notes from all channels.
The Channel parameter of a Sound is also used when importing a multi-chan-
nel MIDI file to its Group — see section ↑7.8.3, Importing MIDI to Patterns for
more on this.
Root Note (Groups only) Defines the MIDI root note for the selected Group (C1 by default). The MIDI
root note and the upper 15 MIDI notes (from [Root Note] until [Root Note +
15]) will trigger the root note of Sound slot 1–16, respectively. Incoming MIDI
notes outside this range will be ignored by the Group.
The Root Note parameter is also used when importing a single-channel MIDI
file to the Group — see section ↑7.8.3, Importing MIDI to Patterns for more on
this.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
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