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
18 Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
MASCHINE is a very hands-on tool for producing music as well as for performing live. Here we
have specifically gathered some tips to help you when playing live. If you are used to playing
live, you may not need them, but maybe you will find some new ideas to integrate into your
set.
18.1 Preparations
18.1.1 Focus on the Hardware
In a live situation it is not very comfortable or intuitive to look back and forth from your laptop
screen running the MASCHINE software to the MASCHINE hardware controller.
18.1.2 Customize the Pads of the Hardware
Take your time to setup the pad sensitivity and velocity scaling to your personal taste (see sec-
tion ↑3.6.6, Preferences – Plug-ins Page to learn how to do that) — you will have even more
fun playing MASCHINE.
18.1.3 Check Your CPU Power Before Playing
Some things can be embarrassing, if for example, you are on stage and your computer starts to
have problems because it cannot handle the amount of effects you are using. Although the
MASCHINE software is programmed very efficiently, this might happen if your computer is
quite old. So before you get on stage, give your live set a thorough performance check by first
playing it at home. Have a look at the CPU meter in the MASCHINE software’s Header to en-
sure it never turns red. If necessary, increase the Latency value (see ↑3.6.1, Preferences –
General Page).
Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
Preparations
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