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Table Of Contents

Title Page
Disclaimer
Contact
Table of Contents
1 Welcome to MASCHINE!
- 1.1 Where to Start?
- 1.2 What’s New in MASCHINE 2.0?
- 1.3 Manual Conventions
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
  - 3.1.1 The MASCHINE Library
  - 3.1.2 Browsing the Library vs. Browsing Your Hard Disks
- 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
  - 4.5.1 Loading REX Files into Sound Slots
  - 4.5.2 Importing MPC Programs to Groups
5 Playing on Your Controller
- 5.1 Adjusting Your Pads
- 5.2 Playing Tools
6 Working with Plug-ins
- 6.1 Plug-in Overview
- 6.2 The Sampler Plug-in
- 6.3 Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins
7 Working with Patterns
- 7.1 Pattern Basics
- 7.2 Recording Patterns in Real Time
- 7.3 Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
  - 7.3.1 Step Mode Basics
    - 7.3.1.1 Entering Step Mode on Your MASCHINE MIKRO MK2 Controller
    - 7.3.1.2 Using Step Mode on the MASCHINE MIKRO Controller
  - 7.3.2 Editing Events in Step Mode
    - 7.3.2.1 Editing Events in Step Mode on the MASCHINE MIKRO Controller
- 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
8 Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- 8.1 Audio Routing in MASCHINE
- 8.2 Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
- 8.3 Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls
  - 8.3.1 Macro Control Overview
  - 8.3.2 Assigning Macro Controls
9 Controlling Your Mix
- 9.1 Mix View Basics
  - 9.1.1 Switching between Arrange View and Mix View
    - 9.1.1.1 Switching between Arrange View and Mix View on the MASCHINE MIKRO MK2 Controller
  - 9.1.2 Mix View Elements
- 9.2 The Mixer
- 9.3 The Plug-in Chain
- 9.4 The Plug-in Strip
10 Using the Drumsynths
- 10.1 Drumsynths – General Handling
- 10.2 The Kicks
- 10.3 The Snares
- 10.4 The Hi-hats
- 10.5 The Toms
- 10.6 The Percussions
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
- 12.1 Dynamics
- 12.2 Filtering Effects
  - 12.2.1 EQ
  - 12.2.2 Filter
- 12.3 Modulation Effects
- 12.4 Spatial and Reverb Effects
- 12.5 Delays
- 12.6 Distortion Effects
13 Creating a Song Using Scenes
- 13.1 Arranger Basics
- 13.2 Managing Scenes
- 13.3 Playing with Scenes
  - 13.3.1 Selecting a Loop Range
    - 13.3.1.1 Selecting a Loop Range on the MASCHINE MIKRO MK2 Controller
  - 13.3.2 Jumping to Other Scenes
    - 13.3.2.1 Adjusting the Perform Grid and Retrigger Setting on the MASCHINE MIKRO Controller
- 13.4 Triggering Scenes via MIDI (MASCHINE Plug-in Only)
14 Sampling and Sample Mapping
- 14.1 Opening the Sample Editor
  - 14.1.1 Entering Sampling Mode on the MASCHINE MIKRO Controller
- 14.2 Recording a Sample
- 14.3 Editing a Sample
  - 14.3.1 Using the Edit Page
    - 14.3.1.1 Using the EDIT Page on the MASCHINE MIKRO Controller
  - 14.3.2 Audio Editing Functions
    - 14.3.2.1 Audio Editing Functions on the MASCHINE MIKRO Controller
- 14.4 Slicing a Sample
- 14.5 Mapping Samples to Zones
15 Troubleshooting – Getting Help
- 15.1 Troubleshooting
- 15.2 Getting Help
16 Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
- 16.1 Preparations
- 16.2 Basic Techniques
- 16.3 Special Tricks
  - 16.3.1 Changing Pattern Length for Variation
  - 16.3.2 Load Long Audio Files and Play with the Start Point
17 Glossary
Index

Sampler parameters – page 1 of 6: VOICE SETTINGS and ENGINE in the software.

Parameter Description

VOICE SETTINGS

Polyphony Here you can define a voice limit for the Sound, that is the maximum number of

voices (notes) the Sampler can play simultaneously. Once this polyphony has

been reached, triggering any additional note will kill the “oldest” note still play-

ing (i.e. the note that was triggered first). The available values are 1, 2, 4, 8 (de-

fault), 16, 32, and 64. You can also set this to Legato — in that case the poly-

phony is set to 1 and the Sampler performs a continuous pitch transition be-

tween consecutive notes.

Glide If Legato is selected for the Polyphony parameter, this allows to adjust the dura-

tion of the transition between consecutive notes.

Pitchbend Here you can adjust how the Sound reacts on incoming MIDI Pitchbend messag-

es from an external MIDI controller or your host application. For more informa-

tion on how to setup your Sounds to receive MIDI, refer to section ↑8.2.1, Trig-

gering Sounds via MIDI Notes.

ENGINE

Mode This allows you to select between different models for the sampling engine. Be-

sides the default Standard setting, the other options MP60 and S1200 emulate

the sound of two legendary Samplers that are often used in Hip-Hop and similar

genres of music. The latter comes in various flavors offering different filtering:

S1200 (no filtering), S1200 L (for Low, i.e. low-pass filtering), S1200 LM (for

Low-Mid, i.e. low-mid-pass filtering), S1200 HM (for High-Mid, i.e. mid-high-

pass filtering), and S1200 High (for High, i.e. high-pass filtering).

Working with Plug-ins

The Sampler Plug-in

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