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
Action Procedure
Bypass an effect Click the FX icon (in Arrange view) or the little square (in Mix
view) at the left of the effect name in the Plug-in List. Click
again to re-enable the effect.
Save the current effect
settings as preset
Open the Plug-in menu, and select Save As… at the bottom
of the menu.
Recall an effect preset Use the Browser (see chapter ↑4, Browser), or open the Plug-
in menu and select Open… at the bottom of the menu.
Native Instruments and External
Effects
Open/close the effect window Arrange view: Click the little window icon in the top left
corner of the Parameter area (at the left of the first page tab).
Mix view: In the Plug-in Strip under the Mixer, click the little
arrow in the top left corner of the effect panel.
Save the current settings as
default preset for this effect
Open the Plug-in menu, and select Save As Default… at the
bottom of the menu.
For detailed information on these topics, please refer to ↑7.1, Plug-in Overview. For more de-
tails on the specific operations available for Native Instruments and External Effects, see ↑7.3,
Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins.
14.1.3 Using the Side-Chain Input
For certain Plug-ins, MASCHINE allows you to use a side-chain input to control how the effects
process the audio.
What Is a Side-Chain Input?
If we consider an effect unit that processes the signal incoming at its main input, side-chaining
means using a secondary signal (the “side-chain signal”) fed to a secondary input of the unit
(the “side-chain input”) to control the behavior of the processing. Usually the amplitude of the
side-chain signal will determine how much the main signal will be processed by the unit.
Using Effects
Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
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