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
 
For  more  information  on  the  Cue  channel,  please  refer  to  section  ↑12.2.6,  Using  the
Cue Bus.
If there are more than 16 Slices, you can select which set of 16 Slices should be triggered by
your pads:
► If there are more than 16 Slices, press SHIFT + Button 7 or 8 to switch your pads to the
previous/next 16 Slices, respectively.
Note that we haven’t applied any slicing yet: For now your pads only allow you to prelis-
ten how the proposed would sound after you apply the slicing. Applying the slicing will
be described in section ↑16.4.5, Applying the Slicing.
Slicing Parameters
Following parameters are available:
Parameter
Description
TIME Section  
MODE Here you can select either DETECT, SPLIT, GRID, or MANUAL:
Detect mode: The Sample will be sliced according to its transients.
Split mode: The Sample will be sliced into equally spread Slices.
Grid mode: The Sample will be sliced according to note values.
Manual mode: Manually enter slice points using the pads on your
controller, and edit the start and end points of a slice.
SLICES (Split and
Grid mode only)
When MODE is set to SPLIT (see above), SLICES lets you choose the
amount of Slices: 4, 8, 16 or 32.
When MODE is set to GRID (see above), SLICES lets you choose the
length of the Slices in note values: 4th, 8th,16th or 32nd notes.
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Slicing a Sample
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