User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- Undo/Redo
- List Overlay for Selectors
- Zoom and Scroll Overlays
- 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
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Touch Auto-Write Option
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- Using Footswitches with the MASCHINE Controller
- 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 Mode Tags
- List and Tag Overlays in the Browser
- 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
- Pattern Basics
- Recording Patterns in Real Time
- Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
- Editing Events
- Recording and Editing Modulation
- Creating MIDI Tracks from Scratch in MASCHINE
- Managing Patterns
- Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
- Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- Audio Routing in MASCHINE
- Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
- Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Arranger 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
- Assigning and Removing Patterns
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- 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
13 Using Effects
At each Project level (Sound, Group and Master) it is possible to add effects in form of Plug-
ins. Each Sound, each Group and the Master can have an unlimited number of insert effects
loaded in their Plug-ins slots. In each Plug-in slot you can load an Internal, Native Instruments
or External Effect Plug-in.
The processing order is always from top to bottom, both in the Plug-in List of the Control area
(in Arrange view) and in the channel strip of the Mixer (in Mix view). In the Plug-in Strip of the
Mix view the processing order is from left to right.
For Sounds, the first Plug-in slot is often hosting an Instrument Plug-in (Sampler, Drum-
synth, Native Instruments or External Plug-in) — this allows the Sound to generate its
own audio. If instead you plug an effect to the first Plug-in slot of a Sound, this Sound
will act as a bussing point for other Sounds and Groups, and you will find this Sound in
the various Dest. selectors in the Output properties of other Sounds and Groups. See
section ↑13.1, Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master below for more infor-
mation.
Most of the features used in the procedures mentioned in this chapter have been already de-
scribed in chapter ↑6, Working with Plug-ins — in MASCHINE, effects are just a certain type
of Plug-ins. Nevertheless, we illustrate them here with various effect-oriented examples. Fur-
thermore, from time to time we will use the Mix view instead of the default Arrange view —
indeed, the intuitive routing facilities of the Mixer make it particularly well suited for quickly
setting up advanced effect routings.
13.1 Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
The procedures for applying an effect at the Sound, Group or Master level are very similar.
13.1.1 Adding an Effect
Let’s add an Effect Plug-in somewhere in the Project. We first describe the detailed procedure
in Arrange view, then we will show the equivalent procedure in Mix view.
Using Effects
Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
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