User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Quick Reference
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Using the 4-Directional Push Encoder
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- Undo/Redo
- List Overlay for Selectors
- Zoom and Scroll Overlays
- Focusing on a Group or a Sound
- Switching Between the Master, Group, and Sound Level
- Navigating Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pages in the Control Area
- Navigating the Software Using the Controller
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Touch Auto-Write Option
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Host Integration
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- Using a Pedal with the MASCHINE Controller
- File Management on the MASCHINE Controller
- Browser
- Browser Basics
- Searching and Loading Files from the Library
- Overview of the Library Pane
- Selecting or Loading a Product and Selecting a Bank from the Browser
- Selecting a Product Category, a Product, a Bank, and a Sub-Bank
- Selecting a File Type
- Choosing Between Factory and User Content
- Selecting Type and Character Tags
- List and Tag Overlays in the Browser
- Performing a Text Search
- Loading a File from the Result List
- Additional Browsing Tools
- Using Favorites in the Browser
- Editing the Files’ Tags and Properties
- Loading and Importing Files from Your File System
- Locating Missing Samples
- Using Quick Browse
- Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
- Playing on the Controller
- Working with Plug-ins
- Plug-in Overview
- The Sampler Plug-in
- Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins
- Using the Audio Plug-in
- Using the Drumsynths
- Using the Bass Synth
- Working with Patterns
- Pattern Basics
- Recording Patterns in Real Time
- Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
- Editing Events
- Recording and Editing Modulation
- Creating MIDI Tracks from Scratch in MASCHINE
- Managing Patterns
- Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
- Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Song View
- Section Management Overview
- Creating Sections
- Assigning a Scene to a Section
- Selecting Sections and Section Banks
- Reorganizing Sections
- Adjusting the Length of a Section
- Clearing a Pattern in Song View
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- Working with Patterns in Song view
- Enabling Auto Length
- Looping
- Playing with Sections
- Triggering Sections or Scenes via MIDI
- The Arrange Grid
- Quick Grid
- Sampling and Sample Mapping
- Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
Content of the Plug-in Menu
The entries in the Plug-in menu differ according to the Plug-in slot from which you are calling
the menu:
▪ The first Plug-in slots of Sounds accepts both Instrument and Effect Plug-ins. The entries
available in their Plug-in menu are listed in the following table.
▪ All other Plug-in slots at the Sound, Group, and Master level only accept Effect Plug-ins.
Therefore, their Plug-in menus and submenus provide the same entries except all entries
for Instrument Plug-ins.
The Plug-in menus can have following entries, from top to bottom:
Plug-in Menu Entry Description
Plug-ins
Presets submenu (only
when a Native Instruments
or External Plug-in is
loaded)
Lists all VST/AU presets made available to MASCHINE by the
VST/AU plug-in. This allows you to use your favorite presets of
the VST/AU plug-in directly inside MASCHINE. See section
↑7.3.4, Using VST/AU Plug-in Presets for more information.
None Select None to remove the Plug-in currently loaded (see previous
paragraph).
Native Instruments
submenu
Lists available Native Instruments’ Instruments (first Plug-in slot
of Sounds only) and Effects. For products working both as
Instrument and Effect, the Effect Plug-in name is followed by
the mention FX. If necessary each entry is followed by the plug-
in type between brackets: (VST) or (AU). See section ↑7.3, Using
Native Instruments and External Plug-ins for more information.
External submenu Lists the available External Plug-ins, i.e. the available VST/AU
instrument (first Plug-in slot of Sounds only) and effect plug-ins
from third-party manufacturers. Each entry is followed by the
plug-in type between brackets: (VST) or (AU). See section ↑7.3,
Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins for more
information.
Working with Plug-ins
Plug-in Overview
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