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
Using the Recording History
All the recordings you have made since you opened the current Project are stored in the Re-
cording History and displayed as mini waveforms on the left display. The following actions are
available:
▪ To navigate your various recordings, press Button 7 (PREV) and Button 8 (NEXT).
▪ The selected recording is automatically loaded in the Sampler Plug-in and ready to be
played. You can further edit the selected recording via the other pages of the Sampling
mode. When selected, a recording is also automatically mapped to a new Zone covering
the entire key and velocity ranges in the ZONE page. Any existing Zones will be replaced.
▪ Press the fully lit pad (the focused Sound slot) to listen to the displayed recording on the
Cue bus (see section ↑9.2.6, Using the Cue Bus for more information).
▪
Press Button 6 (DELETE) to delete the selected recording.
The Recording History is not saved with the Project! The Recording History is meant as a
temporary tool to help you manage the various recordings made during the current session.
When you close the current Project, the Recording History is cleared for all Sounds — nev-
ertheless all your recordings are saved as audio files and available for later use unless you
explicitly delete them (via the MASCHINE interface or in your operating system).
14.2.5 Location and Name of Your Recorded Samples
By default, recorded Samples are saved in the Recordings subfolder of your Standard User Di-
rectory, as defined on the User pane of the Library page in the Preferences panel (see ↑2.5.2,
Preferences – Default Page). If you activate the Prefer Project Folder option on the General
page of the Preferences panel (see ↑2.5.1, Preferences – General Page), recorded Samples will
be saved instead in a Recordings subfolder of the folder where your current Project is saved.
Recorded Samples are automatically named using the following scheme:
[YYMMDD]T[HHMMSS].wav
In the name above, [YYMMDD] stands for the current date (year, month, day, all 2-digit num-
bers) and [HHMMSS] for the current time (hours, minutes, seconds, all 2-digit numbers).
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Recording a Sample
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