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
Action Function
Editing Selected Notes*
(see ↑11.4.4, Editing Selected Events/Notes
for details)
Drag note horizontally Moves selected notes in time according to the
Step Grid.
[Ctrl] + drag note horizontally
(macOS: [Cmd] + drag note)
Freely moves selected notes in time (overrides
the Step Grid quantization).
[Alt] + drag note Duplicates selected notes. When you drag
horizontally, the copies are moved in time
according to the Step Grid.
Drag left/right note border Moves the start/end of selected notes
according to the Step Grid, thereby resizing
the notes.
[Ctrl] + drag left/right note border
(macOS: [Cmd] + drag left/right border)
Freely moves the start/end of selected notes
(overrides the Step Grid quantization),
thereby resizing the notes.
Drag note vertically Group view: Moves selected notes to another
Sound of the Group.
Keyboard view: Transposes selected notes.
* When editing, mouse actions can be performed on any of the selected notes — they will ap-
ply to all selected notes.
Mouse in Pencil Mode
When Pencil mode is enabled, you can use the mouse draw events or notes:
► Click in the background of the Event area and drag the mouse with the button pressed to
set notes wherever you move the cursor. Notes are created for the selected Sound.
The other way round:
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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