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
6 Playing on the Controller
This chapter describes the numerous features available in MASCHINE to adjust and enhance
your playing, both during live performances and when recording Patterns.
6.1 Adjusting the Pads
You can optimize and fine-tune the way the pads of your controller react to your playing:
▪ Choose a pad mode that best fit your playing needs: ↑6.1.1, The Pad View in the Software.
▪ Adjust the base key to set the pitch of the notes played by your pads: Adjusting the Base
Key.
▪ Set Choke groups to selectively cancel Sounds when other Sounds are triggered: Using
Choke Groups.
▪ Create Link groups to trigger several Sounds by pressing only one pad: Using Link Groups.
Most of the settings for your pads are available both in the software via the Pad view (see
↑6.1.1, The Pad View in the Software), and on your controller via the Pad Mode (see section
↑6.1.2, Choosing a Pad Input Mode).
6.1.1 The Pad View in the Software
In the software the settings for your pads are available in the Pad view, which is enabled via
the Pad View button above the Sound List in the Pattern Editor:
The Pad View button.
► Click the Pad View button to show or hide the Pad view.
When the Pad View button is enabled, the Pad view replaces the Sound List below:
Playing on the Controller
Adjusting the Pads
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