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
2. In the left part of the Assignment area, click the Automation tab:
→ The Automation tab lights up and the Automation pane appears on its right. You are now
ready to configure MIDI and host automation for the parameters in the current Parameter
page.
Once the Assignment area is open, when you switch to other Parameter pages the Assignment area
follows your selection: it always shows the assignments for the page currently displayed above.
MASCHINE 1.x owners: In previous MASCHINE versions MIDI/host automation was only possible
via the Macro Controls. Now MIDI/host automation and Macro Controls are unrelated: MIDI/host au-
tomation can be configured directly on parameters, independently of your Macro Control assign-
ments. Macro Controls now specifically serve as shortcuts (or “aliases”) for parameters — see sec-
tion ↑12.3, Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls for more information.
The Automation pane holds two tabs:
▪ MIDI tab: Click the MIDI tab to assign MIDI messages to automatable parameters. You can
then remote control and automate MASCHINE parameters from any MIDI-capable device or
software. Possible MIDI messages are Pitch wheel, Program Change, and MIDI CC 0–127.
▪ Host tab: Click the Host tab to assign automation IDs to automatable parameters if MA-
SCHINE is running as a plug-in. You can then remote control and automate MASCHINE
parameters from your host application.
Under each automatable parameter of the current Parameter page, the Automation pane shows
an Assignment field showing the current assignment for this parameter, if any. If the parameter
has no assignment yet, the Assignment field reads Learn (MIDI tab) or Enable (Host tab). If
the parameter cannot be automated, its Assignment field is grayed out and inactive (see below
to know which parameters can be automated).
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
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