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
(3) Content selector: Click the NI icon (on the left) to select factory content or the User icon (on
the right) to select user content instead. Only the files of the content selected here will be dis-
played in the Result list (8). See section ↑3.2.3, Choosing Between Factory and User Content.
(4) Product selector: Click to open a drop-down menu where you can select a particular prod-
uct, product category, and sometimes the bank and sub-bank of the selected product. Again,
only the files matching your selection will be displayed in the Result list (8). See section
↑3.2.4, Selecting a Product Category, a Product, a Bank, and a Sub-Bank.
(5) TYPES filter: allows you to search for files based on Type and Sub-Type tags that have been
applied to them. See section ↑3.2.5, Selecting Type and Mode Tags.
(6) MODES filter (Instrument/Effect presets only): allows you to search for files based on Mode
tags that have been applied to them. See section ↑3.2.5, Selecting Type and Mode Tags.
(7) Search field: Enter any character string into the Search field to limit the search results to
the files containing this string. See section ↑3.2.6, Performing a Text Search.
(8) Result list: The Result list displays all files that match your query, as specified via the vari-
ous tools above. See section ↑3.2.7, Using the Result List.
(9) Control bar: At the bottom of the Browser, the Control bar provides a few useful tools when
browsing the MASCHINE Library, some of them depending on your selection in the File Type
selector (2):
▪ For all file types except Project, click the Autoload button at the far left of the Control bar
to automatically load the selected file in order to hear it in context with the rest of your
Project while it is playing. See section ↑3.3.1, Loading the Selected Files Automatically.
▪ For Samples, enable the Prehear button and adjust the volume fader next to it in order to
pre-listen to the selected Samples directly from the Browser in order to make a quick se-
lection. See section ↑3.3.2, Pre-Listening to Your Samples.
▪ For Groups, enable the Load Patterns checkbox to load the Group’s Patterns together with
the Group. See section ↑3.3.3, Loading Groups with their Patterns.
▪ For all files, click the Information button (showing a little “i”) near the EDIT button to dis-
play more information on the selected file(s). See section ↑3.3.4, Displaying File Informa-
tion.
Browser
Searching and Loading Files from the Library
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