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
When undocking Native Instruments Plug-ins, their panel in the Plug-in Strip is replaced by a thin
Plug-in placeholder (see below).
Plug-ins of Native Instruments platform products (REAKTOR, KONTAKT, GUITAR RIG) are auto-
matically opened in floating windows when loaded from the Plug-in menu.
MASCHINE will always show the open floating windows of the focused channel (Sound, Group
or Master). In this channel you can have as many open floating windows as you see fit. When
you set the focus to another channel, all open floating windows disappear, possibly replaced by
those for Native Instruments and/or External Plug-ins loaded in the newly focused channel
(Sound, Group or Master).
The Plug-in floating window is the same as in Arrange view — see section ↑7.3.1, Opening/Closing
Plug-in Windows for more on this.
Undocking a Native Instruments Plug-in
When you open a Native Instruments Plug-in its own floating window, following things addi-
tionally happen:
▪ In the Plug-in Strip the Plug-in panel is replaced with a thin vertical Plug-in placeholder
containing only the little diagonal arrow — this allows you to dock the Plug-in back into the
Plug-in Strip (see below).
Controlling Your Mix
The Plug-in Strip
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