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
▪ On the left you can see the list of the 16 Pattern slots in the selected Pattern bank. Slots
containing a Pattern show a colored bar on the left along with the Pattern name. The other
slots contain no Pattern. The selected Pattern is highlighted (the Basics - Return Pattern in
the picture above).
▪ On the right you can see the various Pattern banks in form of pad grids — a pad grid is a
square of 4x4 cells representing the pads of your controller. In each Pattern bank the col-
ored cells indicate Pattern slots containing a Pattern, while unlit cells indicate empty Pat-
tern slots. The selected Pattern bank is surrounded by a white border (the first bank in the
picture above). If there are too many Pattern banks to fit into the Pattern Manager’s height,
use the scroll wheel of your mouse to display the other banks.
▪ The Pattern slots on the left and the cells in the selected pad grid on the right are strictly
equivalent: you can use either the slots or the corresponding cells to execute all the man-
agement commands described in the next sections.
Closing the Pattern Manager
► To close the Pattern Manager, click anywhere outside it.
Pattern Mode on Your Controller
Pattern mode is where you select and manage your Patterns.
► To enter Pattern mode on your controller, press PATTERN.
→ Your controller switches to Pattern mode. This is indicated by the lit PATTERN button.
Now the pads on your controller represent the 16 Pattern slots of the current Pattern bank:
▪ The fully lit pad indicates the selected Pattern slot.
▪ Dim lit pads indicate Pattern slots containing a Pattern.
▪ Unlit pads represent empty Pattern slots.
11.7.2 Selecting Patterns and Pattern Banks
In the topmost row of the Pattern Editor, you can see on the left the name of the Pattern se-
lected:
Working with Patterns
Managing Patterns
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