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
This Plug-in List is the exact equivalent of the Plug-in List in the Control area of the Arrange
view. For all details, see section ↑7.1, Plug-in Overview.
(5) Fader section: Allows you to adjust the channel’s level, panoramic position, Mute and Cue
state. Following actions are available:
▪ Drag the fader vertically to adjust the level of the channel. This is equivalent to the Level
parameter in the Audio page of the channel’s Output properties (see ↑12.1.2, Configuring
the Main Output of Sounds and Groups). Additionally, the level meter shows you at any
time the level of the channel. The peak level value appears in gray above the level meter
and fader. If this peak value exceeds zero, it turns white to indicate clipping; click the val-
ue to reset it.
▪ Drag the little horizontal slider at the top to adjust the panoramic position of the channel in
the stereo field. This is equivalent to the Pan parameter in the Audio page of the channel’s
Output properties (see ↑12.1.2, Configuring the Main Output of Sounds and Groups).
▪ Click the Mute button to mute the channel, or right-click ([Ctrl]-click on macOS) it to mute
all other channels (Solo function). See section ↑6.3.1, Mute and Solo for more information.
▪ Click the little headphones button to send the channel to / remove it from the Cue bus. This
is equivalent to the Cue parameter in the Audio page of the channel’s Output properties.
See section ↑13.2.6, Using the Cue Bus for more information.
(6) Main audio output menu: Selects the destination of the channel’s main audio output. By de-
fault Sound channels are output to their parent Group, Group channels are output to the Mas-
ter, and the Master is output to the first stereo pair of outputs. Click the label to select another
destination. This control is equivalent to the Dest. selector in the Audio page of the Output
properties for the Sounds and Groups (see ↑12.1.2, Configuring the Main Output of Sounds
and Groups) and for the Master (see ↑12.1.4, Configuring the Master and Cue Outputs of MA-
SCHINE).
(7) Aux routing settings: Allows you to adjust the routing for both auxiliary outputs. Visible only
if the AUX button is enabled on the left of the Mixer. Click the AUX 1 or AUX 2 label to select
a destination for this aux output, adjust its level via the little knob on the right, and choose its
pre/post tapping point by clicking the Post or Pre label. These controls are equivalent to the
Dest., Level, and Order parameters in the Aux page of the Sound’s and Group’s Output proper-
ties, respectively (see ↑12.1.3, Setting Up Auxiliary Outputs for Sounds and Groups).
Controlling Your Mix
The Mixer
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