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
◦ For each Sound, MIDI notes will be imported at the default root note C3 — this en-
sures that the imported MIDI data will correctly trigger all MASCHINE factory kits.
◦ The MIDI CC data will be copied to all Sounds for which MIDI notes have been im-
ported.
▪ If the MIDI file contains data on multiple MIDI channels, the data from the individual chan-
nels will be imported to individual Sounds:
◦ If any channel from the MIDI file corresponds to the MIDI input channel of a particu-
lar Sound in your Group, the data on that channel will be imported to that Sound. The
MIDI input channel of each Sound is defined by the Channel parameter in the MIDI
page of the Sound’s Input properties — see section ↑12.2.1, Triggering Sounds via
MIDI Notes.
◦ For all other channels of the MIDI file (i.e. channels that doesn’t correspond to any
MIDI input channel of a Sound in your Group), the data from individual channels will
be imported to individual Sounds that have not received any data during the current
import yet: the channel with the lowest number will be imported to the Sound with the
lowest slot number, and so on.
Example: if the MIDI file contains data on channels 2, 3, and 5, and the MIDI input
channel isn’t defined in any Sound of your Group, Sound slot 1 will receive the data
from channel 2, Sound slot 2 from channel 3, and Sound slot 3 from channel 5.
Importing a MIDI File to a Sound
You can import a MIDI file to a single Sound. For example, this can be useful to import a me-
lodic part for a single instrument. You can do this from the Sound’s context menu, via drag-
and-drop, or via the FILES pane of the Browser.
Method 1: via the Sound’s context menu
1. In the Group List (left of the Arranger), click the Group containing the Sound for which
you want to import the MIDI file.
This sets the focus to that Group and displays its Sounds and Patterns in the Pattern Edi-
tor underneath.
2. Select the Pattern in which you want to import the MIDI file.
Working with Patterns
Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
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