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
If the VOLUME, SWING, or TEMPO button is active in the Edit section above (see ↑2.2.1.2,
Edit Section), hold a Group button and turn the Encoder to change the volume, tune or swing
for that individual Group. For more details on this, see ↑3.3.1, Adjusting Volume, Swing, and
Tempo.
(4) AUTO button: In MASCHINE, modulation of almost any parameter on the Sound and Group
level is achieved with one-touch simplicity. Press and hold the AUTO button while turning the
Encoder to record modulation for the selected parameter.
(5) LOCK button: Press LOCK at any time to create a snapshot of all modulable parameters in
your Project. Subsequently, change any of these parameters during your performance or studio
session, then press the dim lit LOCK button again to recall the snapshot with the original pa-
rameter values. Lock is a powerful tool for extensive modulations, but also very useful to com-
pare mixes, or to switch up snapshots during a live performance.
(6) NOTE REPEAT button: Note Repeat is a convenient way to play, record beats, and melodies.
When your pads are in Pad Mode, the Note Repeat engine repeats the selected Sound auto-
matically at a given rate. When your pads are in Keyboard or Chord mode, NOTE REPEAT pro-
vides instead access to the flexible and versatile arpeggiator to play Sounds in note sequences.
The arpeggios are created according to both the pads you hold and the scale and chords you
have configured. Press SHIFT + NOTE REPEAT (Arp) to directly switch your pads in Keyboard
mode and activate the Arp engine. To use Note Repeat you must press and hold it, but in Arp
mode it is automatically pinned. To learn more about Note Repeat, see Using Note Repeat.
2.2.1.4 Transport Section
The Transport section holds various transport tools as well as the SHIFT button used in various
contexts.
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The Transport section on your controller.
(1) PLAY button: Press PLAY to activate playback.
Quick Reference
MASCHINE Hardware Overview
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