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
Selection Tool Description
Pads Unlit pads indicate Sounds for which the Pattern has no events. Nothing happens
when you press them.
Dimmed pads indicate Sounds for which events can be selected: Press any dimmed
pad to add all events for that Sound to the selection. The pad turns fully lit to in-
dicate that all its events are selected. You can press any additional dimmed pad to
add its events to the selection. Pressing a dimmed pad additionally switches the
focus to the corresponding Sound.
Fully lit pads indicate Sounds for which all events are selected: Press any lit pad to
remove all its events from the selection (the pad turns dim lit).
Button 7/8 (ALL/NONE)
Selects/deselects all events for all Sounds, i.e. all events in the Pattern.
Button 5/6 (UP/DOWN)
Switch the focus to the previous/next Sound in order to add or remove some of its
events to/from the selection (using Knob 1, 2, and 4, and the Page buttons, see
below). The name of the selected Sound is indicated under the EVENTS label in the
top left corner of the left display.
Page buttons Drop the current selection and select the previous/next individual event for the fo-
cused Sound.
Knob 1/2 (START/END)
Define the selection’s start and end points in the timeline for the focused Sound.
All events within this time interval are included into the selection.
Knob 4 (EVENT)
Selects individual events for the focused Sound using the events’ index number
(their “order of appearance” in the Pattern). If the selection contains more than
one event, the EVENT field indicates (MULTI).
By combining these tools you can precisely define the selection of events you want to edit.
Event Select Mode: Selecting Notes (Pads in Keyboard mode)
In Keyboard mode each pad represents a specific pitch of the focused Sound.
When your pads are in Keyboard mode the Event Select mode looks as follows:
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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