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
Available Actions in the Map
You can select and edit Zones with your mouse and your keyboard in the Map. Following ac-
tions are available:
Mouse/Keyboard Action Command
Selection Commands
Click a Zone Puts this Zone under focus. The focused Zone is
highlighted. You can edit the focused Zone and the
playback settings of its Sample via the Zone settings
at the bottom of the Zone page, as well as process the
Sample’s audio material on the Edit page and/or slice
the Sample on the Slice page.
Hold [Ctrl] ([Cmd] on macOS) and
click several Zones
Selects all clicked Zones. Click a selected Zone to
deselect it (i.e. remove it from the selection).
Hold [Shift] and click two Zones Selects both Zones and all Zones in-between.
Click and drag a selection frame in
the Sample Map
Selects all Zones within or overlapping the frame.
Press [Ctrl]+[A] ([Cmd]+[A] on
macOS)
Selects/deselects all Zones. When deselecting, only
the focused Zone remains selected.
Edit Commands
Drag the left/right border of a Zone Adjusts the key range for the selected Zones.
Drag the higher/lower border of a
Zone
Adjusts the velocity range for the selected Zones.
Drag a corner of a Zone Simultaneously adjusts the lowest/highest note and
the lowest/highest velocity of the selected Zone(s) —
depending on the corner.
Click inside a Zone and drag Moves the selected Zone(s) across the Sample Map.
Note that the Root Key of each Zone is moved
accordingly.
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Mapping Samples to Zones
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