User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Quick Reference
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Using the 4-Directional Push Encoder
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- 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
- Navigating the Software Using the Controller
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Touch Auto-Write Option
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Host Integration
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- Using a Pedal with the MASCHINE Controller
- File Management on 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 Character 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
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Song 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
- Clearing a Pattern in Song View
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- Working with Patterns in Song view
- 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
Using the Navigate Mode
Alternatively, you can also navigate Channel properties and Plug-ins along with their Parameter
pages via the Navigate mode of your controller:
1. Press SHIFT + VARIATION (Navigate) to enter Navigate mode (or pin it by pressing NAVI-
GATE + Button 1).
2. Hold SHIFT + VARIATION (Navigate), then Button 2 (PAGE NAV) to enter Page Naviga-
tion mode.
3. Press the CHANNEL button to display the Channel properties or the PLUG-IN button to
display the Plug-in slots of the selected Sound, Group or the Master.
4. Press Button 5/6 to navigate the Channel properties or Plug-ins.
The name of the selected Channel properties or Plug-in appears between the left and right
arrows under Button 5 and 6. Furthermore this Plug-in or set of Channel properties is
highlighted on the left display.
5. Press the dimmed pads to select the desired Parameter pages. The names of the available
Parameter pages are shown on the right display along with the corresponding pads.
6. Upon your selection the corresponding pad turns fully lit and the page name is highlight-
ed on the right display.
7. If there are more than 16 Parameter pages, press Button 7/8 to switch to the previous/
next 16 pages, respectively.
8. Release the VARIATION (Navigate) button to get back to Control mode (or press VARIA-
TION (Navigate) a second time if you pinned the Navigate mode).
→ The selected Parameter page now appears on the displays. Use Knobs 1–8 under the dis-
plays to adjust the parameters.
3.3.9.1 Extended Navigate Mode on Your Controller
The Navigate mode on your controller can be used to navigate the Parameter pages of Channel
properties and Plug-ins and adjust the view settings of specific areas in the software interface.
► Press and hold SHIFT + VARIATION (Navigate) to enter Navigate mode.
The Navigate mode has two distinct submodes:
Basic Concepts
Common Operations
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