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
▪ Switch the Mixer display between Sounds and Groups (see section ↑13.2.1, Displaying
Groups vs. Displaying Sounds).
▪ Focus/select particular channels (see section ↑13.2.3, Selecting Channel Strips).
▪ Rename the channel: Double-click its current name, type a new name on your computer
keyboard, and press [Enter] to confirm (or [Esc] to cancel). You can also use the Rename
entry in the channel’s context menu.
▪ Other management commands: Right-click ([Ctrl]-click on macOS) the header background
to open the channel’s context menu (see section ↑13.2.4, Managing Your Channels in the
Mixer).
(2) Audio input settings (Sound strips only): Allows you to adjust the audio input routing. Visible
only if the IO button is enabled on the left of the Mixer. Click the AUDIO IN label to select an
audio input, and adjust its level via the little knob on the left. These controls are equivalent to
the Source and Gain parameters in the Audio page of the Sound’s Input properties. See sec-
tion ↑12.1.1, Sending External Audio to Sounds for more information.
(3) MIDI input settings: Allows you to adjust the MIDI input routing. Visible only if the IO button
is enabled on the left of the Mixer. Click the MIDI IN label to select a MIDI input port, then
select a channel via the little menu on its right. These controls are equivalent to the Source
and Channel selectors in the MIDI page of the Sound’s and Group’s Input properties, respec-
tively. See section ↑12.2.1, Triggering Sounds via MIDI Notes for more information.
(4) Plug-in List: Shows the Plug-ins loaded in the channel. Visible only if the Plug-in icon is
enabled on the left of the Mixer. Following actions are available:
▪ Click the little “+” symbol to open the Plug-in menu and load a new Plug-in at the end of
the list.
▪ Right-click (macOS: [Ctrl]-click) an existing Plug-in to replace it with another Plug-in or to
remove it (to do this, select None in the menu).
▪ Click a Plug-in name to select it. If this Plug-in is currently hidden in the Plug-in Strip un-
der the Mixer, it automatically scrolls to show the interface of that Plug-in (see section
↑13.4, The Plug-in Strip).
▪ Click the little square left of a Plug-in to bypass it (the bypassed Plug-in is grayed out) or
re-insert it in the signal chain.
▪ Drag and drop Plug-ins to move them across the list.
Controlling Your Mix
The Mixer
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