User Guide

◦ Chapter ↑3, Building Your Own Drum Kit: Customize your drum kit by quickly ex-
changing some of its sounds via the Browser and by adjusting some of the sounds’ ba-
sic settings.
◦ Chapter ↑4, Creating Beats: Record a second pattern and discover how to fine-tune
your patterns.
◦ Chapter ↑5, Adding a Bass Line: Add a bass line to your song using a VST/AU instru-
ment plug-in in MASCHINE.
◦ Chapter↑6, Applying Effects: Add effects to the various instruments in your song and
quickly automate the effect parameters.
◦ Chapter ↑7, Creating Beats with the Step Sequencer: Create a Pattern, this time with
the step sequencer — another great way of creating grooves from your controller.
◦ Chapter ↑8, Creating a Song Using Scenes: Arrange your Patterns into Scenes, devel-
op your Scenes into a song and play your Scenes live!
◦ Finally, Chapter ↑9, Using Advanced Features lets you glimpse some more advanced
tasks and workflows covered in the MASCHINE Manual: changing Sound, Group, and
Master Channel properties; using advanced routings; sampling and the Mix view.
▪ The third and last part (Chapter 10 to 12) consists of useful global information on MA-
SCHINE to be used at any time:
◦ Chapter ↑10, Quick Reference provides you with a quick reference of the MASCHINE
hardware controller and the MASCHINE software. It gives you a good overview of the
main concepts and features of MASCHINE, along with lists of hardware shortcuts for
various tasks. You can use it as a quick reminder before you dive into the MASCHINE
Manual.
◦ Chapter ↑11, Troubleshooting – Getting Help gathers useful information for trouble-
shooting and getting help.
◦ Chapter ↑12, Glossary holds a glossary defining all important terms and concepts
used in MASCHINE.
Welcome to MASCHINE!
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