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
Choke Groups
Choke group allows you establish links between pads so that triggering the Sound of a pad au-
tomatically mutes other Sounds in that Choke group. You can have up to eight Choke groups in
each Group. In a Choke group, each pad can be set as Master or Slave: Pressing a Master pad
will trigger its own Sound and mute all other Sounds in the Choke group, while pressing a
Slave pad will only trigger its own Sound.
Clip
Clips are found in the Arranger in form of colored blocks. Clips are the building blocks for
Scenes. A Clip is a reference to a particular Pattern of a Group. In one Scene you can create
one Clip for each Group — in other terms, in each Scene you can play one Pattern of each
Group. You can create several Clips referencing the same Pattern in different Scenes. When
you modify your Pattern in the Pattern Editor, all Clips referencing this Pattern in the Arranger
will get updated accordingly.
Control Area
The Control area is located in the middle of the MASCHINE window in Arrange view, between
the Arranger (above) and the Pattern Editor (below). This area allows you to adjust all the pa-
rameters (in Channel properties and Plug-ins) of the focused Sound/Group or the Master: rout-
ing, effects, plug-ins, mixing, Macro Controls, etc.
Control Mode
Control mode is the default mode of your controller. In this mode, you can play or record your
actions on the pads in real-time. Control mode also allows you to adjust any parameter of any
Sound, Group or the Master.
Effect
An effect modifies the audio material it receives. MASCHINE already includes many different
effects. You may also use VST/AU plug-in effects by Native Instruments or any third-party man-
ufacturer. Effects can be loaded as Plug-ins in any Plug-in slot of the Sound, Group, and Mas-
ter levels. MASCHINE’s flexible routing allows you not only to apply insert effects but also to
create send effects, multi-effects, and side-chains.
Glossary
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