User 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
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- Undo/Redo
- 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
- Loading a Recent Project from the Controller
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- 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 Mode Tags
- 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
- 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
(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 ↑4.2.5, 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
↑4.2.3, 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 ↑4.2.6, 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 ↑4.2.6, 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 ↑4.2.7, 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 ↑4.2.8, Loading a File from 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 ↑4.3.1, Loading the Selected Files Automatically.
▪ For Instruments Presets and Samples, enable the Prehear button and adjust the volume fad-
er next to it in order to pre-listen to the selected items directly from the Browser in order to
make a quick selection. See section ↑4.3.3, Auditioning Samples and ↑4.3.2, Auditioning
Instrument Presets.
▪ For Groups, enable the Load Patterns checkbox to load the Group’s Patterns together with
the Group. See section ↑4.3.4, Loading Groups with 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 ↑4.3.6, Displaying File Informa-
tion.
Browser
Searching and Loading Files from the Library
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