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
 
▪ KOMPLETE KONTROL  Keyboard  MK1:  Press INSTANCE  and  turn  the  Control  encoder  to
select the desired instance, and press the Control encoder to load it.
▪ KOMPLETE KONTROL Keyboard MK2: Press INSTANCE and turn  the 4-D encoder to se-
lect the desired instance, and press the 4-D encoder to load it.
3.3.12 Touch Auto-Write Option
Modulation recording also benefits from the touch sensitivity of Knobs 1–8 via the Touch Auto-
write option.
Reminder:  To  record  modulation  from  your  MASCHINE  controller,  activate  playback,  switch  your
controller to Auto-write mode by pressing and holding AUTO, and then turn the Knobs 1–8 to adjust
parameters. For more information, please refer to section ↑11.5.2, Recording Modulation.
Enabled  by  default,  the  Touch  Auto-write  option  allows  you  to  record  modulation  events  as
soon as you touch Knobs 1–8, even if you don’t rotate them:
▪ If Touch Auto-write is  disabled, modulation events  are recorded only when  you rotate the
Knobs 1–8 (as in previous MASCHINE versions).
▪ If Touch Auto-write  is enabled, modulation  events are recorded  as soon  as you touch  the
Knobs 1–8, whether you actually rotate them or not:
◦ If you rotate the Knobs, the new modulation values are recorded for the corresponding
parameters.
◦ If you touch the Knobs but don’t rotate them, the last modulation values for these pa-
rameters keep  being  recorded as  new  events  as the  playhead  moves  forward,  thereby
overwriting any existing modulation events at the playhead position. Modulation stops
being recorded when you release the Knob(s).
Enabling/Disabling Touch Auto-Write
The Touch Auto-write option can be enabled or disabled in the Hardware page of the Preferen-
ces panel:
Basic Concepts
Common Operations
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