User's 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 Character 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
To apply full or half quantization:
1. Select the events you wish to quantize. If nothing is selected, the whole Pattern content
will be quantized. See ↑11.4.3, Selecting Events/Notes to know how to select events.
2. To apply full quantization to the selected events, press SHIFT + pad 5 (QUANTIZE).
3. To apply only a bit of quantization to keep the groove you created by playing your notes
live, press SHIFT + pad 6 (QUANTIZE 50%).
You can repeatedly apply QUANTIZE 50% until you are happy; you could for example apply it until
the notes are close enough to the Step Grid to sound tight, but loose enough to maintain their basic
“feel.” If it is too quantized for you, just press SHIFT + pad 1 to undo the last change.
11.4.8 Quantization While Playing
Input Quantization mode allows you to quantize events also as you play them on the pads.
The Input Quantization settings previously available have been renamed to include the new In-
put Quantization mode — now Input Quantization can be set to following modes in the Prefer-
ences:
▪ None: Input Quantization is disabled. Events you play or record on the pads are not quan-
tized.
▪ Record: Input Quantization is applied only when you record the pads.
▪ Play/Rec: Input Quantization is applied both when you play on the pads and when you re-
cord them.
In Play/Rec mode the quantization applied while playing is slightly different from the quantization
applied while recording: When recording, all events are quantized to the closest step — possibly
ahead of the event. When playing, on the other hand, events occurring in the first half of the steps
are left untouched (since you cannot bring them forward in the timeline!) whereas events occurring
in the second half of the steps are quantized to the next step.
Choosing an Input Quantization Mode
In the software the Input Quantization can be configured via the Quantize setting available in
the Input section at the bottom of the General page in the Preferences panel:
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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