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
11.1.5.2 Configuring External Inputs for Sounds in MASCHINE STUDIO ...................569
11.2 Using MIDI Control and Host Automation .................................................................................... 569
11.2.1 Triggering Sounds via MIDI Notes .............................................................................. 570
11.2.2 Triggering Scenes via MIDI ........................................................................................ 577
11.2.3 Controlling Parameters via MIDI and Host Automation .............................................. 579
11.2.4 Selecting VST/AU Plug-in Presets via MIDI Program Change ..................................... 587
11.2.5 Sending MIDI from Sounds ........................................................................................ 588
11.3 Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls ................................................... 592
11.3.1 Macro Control Overview ............................................................................................. 593
11.3.2 Assigning Macro Controls Using the Software ........................................................... 594
12 Controlling Your Mix ..................................................................................................
601
12.1 Mix View Basics .......................................................................................................................... 601
12.1.1 Switching between Arrange View and Mix View ......................................................... 601
12.1.2 Mix View Elements ..................................................................................................... 602
12.2 The Mixer .................................................................................................................................... 604
12.2.1 Displaying Groups vs. Displaying Sounds .................................................................. 605
12.2.2 Adjusting the Mixer Layout ........................................................................................ 607
12.2.3 Selecting Channel Strips ........................................................................................... 608
12.2.4 Managing Your Channels in the Mixer ....................................................................... 609
12.2.5 Adjusting Settings in the Channel Strips ................................................................... 611
12.2.6 Using the Cue Bus ..................................................................................................... 615
12.3 The Plug-in Chain ....................................................................................................................... 617
12.4 The Plug-in Strip ........................................................................................................................ 618
12.4.1 The Plug-in Header .................................................................................................... 620
12.4.2 Panels for Drumsynths and Internal Effects .............................................................. 622
12.4.3 Panel for the Sampler ................................................................................................ 623
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