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
Management Command Action
Deleting Group channels Open the Group channel’s context menu and select Delete.
See section ↑4.3.8, Deleting Groups.
Saving channels Open the channel’s context menu and select Save As….
See section ↑4.2.5, Saving Sounds and ↑4.3.5, Saving Groups.
You cannot move Sounds and Groups via drag and drop in the Mixer. This is only possible
in the Arrange view — see section ↑4.2.7, Moving Sounds and ↑4.3.7, Moving Groups for
details.
9.2.5 Adjusting Settings in the Channel Strips
The layout of Sound and Group strips is close to that of a classic mixing desk. The signal trav-
els from top to bottom: from the input routing settings at the top, it passes through the various
Plug-ins loaded in the channel, then goes through the pan and level controls, and finally ar-
rives to the output routing settings at the bottom.
The settings available in each channel strip mirror most of the parameters found in the Chan-
nel properties displayed in the Control area of the Arrange view, allowing you to adjust them in
a more intuitive and visual way (see the list of available parameters at the end of this section).
Adjusting Settings on the Fly
The Mixer provides an interesting feature not available in Arrange view: You can quickly
change the settings in any displayed channel strip without having to put the channel under fo-
cus beforehand: Simply click the desired setting in any of the displayed channel strips to mod-
ify it — the current selection/focus will stay untouched.
Tip: Use the Parent Channel Strip at the Far Right
In both display modes of the Mixer, the rightmost channel strip (the “output” strip of the mix-
ing desk) represents the parent channel:
▪ If the Mixer currently shows all Groups, the rightmost strip represents the Master (or Cue)
channel.
▪ If the Mixer currently shows the Sounds of the focused Group, the rightmost strip repre-
sents that Group.
Controlling Your Mix
The Mixer
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