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
Element Description
SCALE Section
Velocity Adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from
-100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is played
at full velocity, no matter how hard you hit the keys (or pads). From that mid
position, by turning the knob to the right you increase the positive velocity re-
sponse and make the drum more and more sensitive to the velocities at which
you hit the keys/pads. From the mid position, turning the knob to the left as
the inverse effect: the harder you hit the key/pad, the softer the resulting drum
sound will be.
10.5.2 Tom – Fractal
The Fractal tom is a modern electronic tom with a broad sonic range from pure and analog-
sounding through organic and percussive through bell-like to totally alien. It uses a tone oscil-
lator and a feedback oscillator bank (like the one used in the Fractal engine of the Percussion,
see ↑10.6.1, Percussion – Fractal), the balance between which is controlled by the Mix param-
eter on the Advanced page. The tone oscillator on its own produces a simple analog-style blee-
py tom. The addition of the feedback oscillator bank facilitates a much wider range of sounds.
The parameters described below are presented as they appear in the Control area (Arrange
view). The same parameters are available in the Plug-in panel within the Plug-in Strip (Mix
view). See ↑9.4, The Plug-in Strip for more information on this.
Main Page
Element Description
MAIN Section
Engine Selects the engine used in the Tom Plug-in. If you change this setting, please
refer to ↑10.5, The Toms.
Tune Adjusts the pitch of the drum played by the middle C, measured in MIDI note
numbers and cents. Available values range from 48.00 to 72.00. The default
value is 48.00. For more details see ↑10.1.5, Pitch Range, Tuning, and MIDI
Notes. Note that the pitch of this instrument is heavily dependent on the set-
tings on the Advanced page (see below).
Decay Adjusts the duration of the sound’s tail, measured as a percentage. Available
values range from 0.0 to 100.0 % (default: 50.0 %).
Using the Drumsynths
The Toms
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