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
11. Leave the Plug-in Browser and switch back to Control mode by pressing PLUG-IN (or by
pressing SHIFT + BROWSE again).
→
The effect is loaded in the selected Plug-in slot and it is automatically displayed on your
controller. Now you can edit the effect parameters using Knobs 1–8 and the Page buttons
— see section ↑2.3.3, Navigating Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pages in
the Control Area for more information.
Notes and Hints on Loading Effects from Your Controller
▪ If you have selected a Plug-in slot already containing a Plug-in, this Plug-in will be re-
placed with the new Effect Plug-in. If you have instead selected the EMPTY entry, the new
Effect Plug-in will be appended to the list of loaded Plug-ins.
▪ Instead of using the Plug-in Browser, you can also press BROWSE and use the global
Browser to load a particular preset for an Effect Plug-in. Please refer to section ↑3.2,
Searching and Loading Files from the Library for more information.
▪ Instead of loading the effect into the selected Plug-in slot (possibly replacing the Plug-in
currently loaded), you can also insert the effect directly after the selected slot (a new
Plug-in slot will be automatically created): After you have selected the desired Plug-in slot
in Control mode, press SHIFT + Button 4 (INSERT) and choose an effect preset in the
Browser that automatically opened. Upon loading, your controller automatically leaves the
Browser and switches back to Control mode. Please refer to section ↑3.2, Searching and
Loading Files from the Library for more information on how to use the Browser to load an
Effect preset.
▪ You can quickly load effects in several Plug-in slots in a row: Instead of leaving the Plug-
in Browser at the last step above, hold NAVIGATE and press Button 5/6 to select another
Plug-in slot, then release NAVIGATE and you can directly load another effect into this oth-
er slot.
▪ For all details on the parameters for each MASCHINE effect, please refer to chapter ↑12,
Effect Reference.
▪ For additional, specific information on VST/AU plug-ins, please read ↑6.2.6, Page 6: Ve-
locity / Modwheel.
Using Effects
Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
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