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
Controls Description
MIDI ROUTING Section
Key Mode (Pad Mode
only)
Enables the MIDI note input for the selected Group (disabled by
default). Please refer to your host documentation to find out how to
route MIDI signals to your MASCHINE plug-in.
Key Mode offers the following options:
Off: Select this option to disable MIDI note input for the selected
Group.
Drumkit: Select this option to conveniently configure the MIDI note
input for the selected Group and place each Sound on a specific
key chromatically across the keyboard starting from C2 upwards.
If nothing is loaded on a Sound nothing can be triggered, and if you
use a Native Instruments KOMPLETE KONTROL S-series keyboard
the Light Guide will remain white to indicate that nothing loaded.
Additionally, KOMPLETE KONTROL S-series keyboards have a
dedicated KEY MODE button to quickly active the Drumkit option
for the selected Group in MASCHINE.
By selecting Drumkit you also affect how MIDI is exported from
MASCHINE to another host sequencer when using the MIDI dragger
in the Pattern editor, for more information on the how to drag and
drop MIDI from your Patterns to your desktop or host software
please read: ↑11.8, Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from
Patterns.
Manual: This option allows you to configure the MIDI note input
based on your own preferences, including the Source, Channel,
Start Note and Thru settings.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
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