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
◦ If playback is off the playhead immediately jumps to the beginning of the selected
Scene. If playback is on the playhead jumps according to the Perform Grid settings.
For more info on the Loop Range see section ↑13.3.1, Selecting a Loop Range. For more
info on the Perform Grid settings see section ↑13.3.2, Jumping to Other Scenes.
13.2.2.1 Selecting Scenes and Scene Banks on the MASCHINE STUDIO Controller
Selecting a Scene Bank
To select a Scene located in another Scene bank than the one currently selected, you fist need
to select that other Scene bank:
►
Press SCENE + Button 7 or 8 to select the previous or next Scene bank, respectively.
If the last Scene bank is selected and not empty, pressing Button 8 will create a new, emp-
ty Pattern bank — see section ↑13.2.5, Creating and Deleting Scene Banks for more infor-
mation.
You can also select Scene banks in Scene Arrange mode: press ARRANGE then Button 1
(SCENE), then use Button 7 and 8 as described above.
Selecting a Scene
►
To select a Scene in the current Scene bank, press SCENE + the dim lit pad correspond-
ing to the cell of the desired Scene on the right display. Alternatively you can press
SCENE + Page buttons to select the previous/next Scene.
You can also select Scenes in Scene Arrange mode: press ARRANGE then Button 1 (SCENE),
then use the pads or the Page buttons as described above.
Upon your selection, the following happens:
▪ The Pattern Editor displays the Pattern corresponding to the Clip for the focused Group in
this Scene. If there is no Clip for the focused Group in the Scene you have just selected,
the Pattern Editor is empty.
▪ If you have selected the Scene by pressing a pad, or if you have selected a Scene outside
the current Loop Range via the Page buttons:
Creating a Song Using Scenes
Managing Scenes
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