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
► Right-click ([Ctrl]-click on macOS) the non-empty Assignment field under a parameter
and select Unlearn in the menu to remove the MIDI assignment for that parameter.
→ The MIDI assignment is removed from the Assignment field and the parameter is not con-
trollable via MIDI anymore.
Of course, this procedure also works for Native Instruments and External Plug-ins loaded in
MASCHINE.
12.2.4 Selecting VST/AU Plug-in Presets via MIDI Program Change
If you have a Native Instruments or third-party VST/AU plug-in loaded in a Sound, you can re-
motely switch presets (or patches, programs, etc.) in your plug-in via MIDI Program Change
messages.
For this to work, your plug-in must expose its presets (or a particular set of presets) to the host.
Each VST/AU instrument or effect might handle its presets (or patches, programs…) different-
ly. Please refer to the plug-in documentation to know how to make its presets available to the
host.
For example, in MASSIVE, ABSYNTH 5, and FM8, you need to enable the Program List and fill it
up with the desired patches in order to expose these to MASCHINE and switch between them via
MIDI Program Change messages.
The Native Instruments or third-party VST/AU plug-in will listen to Program Change messages
according to the Source and Channel settings you have defined on the MIDI page of the Input
properties for the respective Sound — this page is described in detail in section ↑12.2.1, Trig-
gering Sounds via MIDI Notes above.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
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