User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- 1 Welcome to MASCHINE!
- 2 Basic Concepts
- 2.1 Names and Concepts You Should Know
- 2.2 Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- 2.3 Common Operations
- 2.4 Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- 2.5 Preferences
- 2.6 Audio and MIDI Settings
- 2.7 Integrating MASCHINE into Your MIDI Setup
- 3 Browser
- 3.1 Browser Basics
- 3.2 Searching and Loading Files from the Library
- 3.3 Additional Browsing Tools
- 3.4 Editing the Files’ Tags and Properties
- 3.5 Loading and Importing Files from Your File System
- 3.6 Locating Missing Samples
- 3.7 Using Quick Browse
- 4 Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
- 4.1 Overview of the Sounds, Groups, and Master
- 4.2 Managing Sounds
- 4.3 Managing Groups
- 4.4 Exporting MASCHINE Objects and Audio
- 4.5 Importing Third-Party File Formats
- 5 Playing on Your Controller
- 6 Working with Plug-ins
- 6.1 Plug-in Overview
- 6.1.1 Plug-in Basics
- 6.1.2 First Plug-in Slot of Sounds: Choosing the Sound’s Role
- 6.1.3 Loading, Removing, and Replacing a Plug-in
- 6.1.4 Adjusting the Plug-in Parameters
- 6.1.5 Bypassing Plug-in Slots
- 6.1.6 Using Side-Chain
- 6.1.7 Moving Plug-ins
- 6.1.8 Alternative: the Plug-in Strip
- 6.1.9 Saving and Recalling Plug-in Presets
- 6.2 The Sampler Plug-in
- 6.3 Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins
- 6.1 Plug-in Overview
- 7 Working with Patterns
- 7.1 Pattern Basics
- 7.1.1 Pattern Editor Overview
- 7.1.2 Navigating the Event Area
- 7.1.3 Following the Playback Position in the Pattern
- 7.1.4 Jumping to Another Playback Position in the Pattern
- 7.1.5 Group View and Keyboard View
- 7.1.6 Adjusting the Pattern Grid and the Pattern Length
- 7.1.7 Adjusting the Step Grid and the Nudge Grid
- 7.2 Recording Patterns in Real Time
- 7.3 Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
- 7.4 Editing Events
- 7.5 Recording and Editing Modulation
- 7.6 Creating MIDI Tracks from Scratch in MASCHINE
- 7.7 Managing Patterns
- 7.8 Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
- 7.1 Pattern Basics
- 8 Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- 9 Controlling Your Mix
- 10 Using the Drumsynths
- 11 Using Effects
- 11.1 Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
- 11.2 Applying Effects to External Audio
- 11.3 Creating a Send Effect
- 11.4 Creating Multieffects
- 12 Effect Reference
- 13 Creating a Song Using Scenes
- 13.1 Arranger Basics
- 13.2 Managing Scenes
- 13.3 Playing with Scenes
- 13.4 Triggering Scenes via MIDI (MASCHINE Plug-in Only)
- 14 Sampling and Sample Mapping
- 14.1 Opening the Sample Editor
- 14.2 Recording a Sample
- 14.3 Editing a Sample
- 14.4 Slicing a Sample
- 14.5 Mapping Samples to Zones
- 15 Troubleshooting – Getting Help
- 16 Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
- 17 Glossary
- Index
Plug-in Menu Entry Description
Save As… Allows you to save the current Plug-in settings as a preset for later use. This
preset will appear in the Browser.
Save As Default… (only when a
Native Instruments or External
Plug-in is loaded)
Allows you to save the current Plug-in settings as a default preset. This de-
fault preset will be recalled each time you load the Plug-in from the Plug-in
menu.
Note that the first two submenus Native Instruments and External only show the Plug-ins
that are enabled in the Plug-ins page of the Preferences panel. For more on this, see sec-
tion ↑2.5.4, Preferences – Plug-ins Page.
The edit commands (Cut, Copy, and Paste) and preset management commands (Open,
Save As…, and Save As Default…) available at the bottom of the Plug-in menu will be cov-
ered in section ↑6.1.7, Moving Plug-ins and ↑6.1.9, Saving and Recalling Plug-in Presets,
respectively.
6.1.3.1 Loading, Removing, and Replacing a Plug-in on the MASCHINE MIKRO MK2 Controller
On the MASCHINE MIKRO controller, do the following:
1. Press CONTROL to enter Control mode.
2. Select the Sound, Group or the Master where you want to load, remove or replace a Plug-
in (see section ↑2.3.1, Setting the Focus on a Group or a Sound).
3. Press NAV + F3 (PLUG-IN) to display the Plug-in slots of the selected Sound, Group or the
Master.
4. While holding NAV, turn the Control encoder or press the dimmed pads to select the de-
sired Plug-in slot.
The name of the selected Plug-in appears in the display — if there are no Plug-ins in the
channel this will read (NONE).
→
You are now ready to load, insert, remove or replace a Plug-in as described in the follow-
ing paragraphs.
Loading a Plug-in in Place
To load a Plug-in into the selected Plug-in slot, do the following:
1. Press SHIFT + BROWSE to open the Plug-in Browser and browse the available Plug-ins.
Working with Plug-ins
Plug-in Overview
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