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
Parameter Description
STRETCH section
TUNE
Adjusts the detuning (pitch shifting) to be applied (in semitones and cents). Leave
this value to 0.00 to leave the original pitch untouched.
FORMANT C
(Formant Correction)
Enables/disables the formant correction. Formant correction allows the pitch-shif-
ted audio to retain the timbre (or “color”) of the original audio as much as possi-
ble. This is especially useful for melodic instruments.
MODE
Selects from the two available time shifting modes.
BEAT: In Beat mode, the new tempo is defined relative to the time signature (the
beats and bars) of the original audio. This can be useful if you sampled a loop
with a clearly defined rhythm (e.g., a drum loop).
FREE: In Free mode, the new tempo is defined independently from the time signa-
ture of the source. This is more suited for non-rhythmic Samples. In this mode on-
ly one parameter is available: SPEED (see below).
AUTO DTCT
(Auto Detection, Beat
mode only)
If AUTO DTCT (Auto Detection) is enabled, MASCHINE automatically detects the
tempo of the original audio.
SRC BPM
(Source BPM, Beat
mode only)
SRC BPM (Source BPM) allows to define the tempo of the original audio (in BPM).
This tempo is defined in different ways according to the AUTO DTCT value:
If AUTO DTCT is enabled, you can set the length (in bars) of the original audio. You
can choose between 1/2, 1, and 2 bars. The number between brackets indicates
the resulting tempo (in BPM) derived from the number of bars you have set and
the computed tempo value.
If AUTO DTCT is disabled, you can directly define the tempo of the original audio (in
BPM).
NEW BPM
(Beat mode only)
Defines the target tempo of the time-shifted audio (in BPM).
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Editing a Sample
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