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
(4) Recent Locations button: Click this button to see a list of the last visited locations and quick-
ly jump any of them. See section ↑4.6.4, Navigating to Recent Locations.
(5) Result list: The Result list displays the content (files and folders) of the folder loaded in the
Location bar (3). Only MASCHINE-compatible files are displayed. See section ↑4.6.5, Using
the Result List.
(6) Control bar: At the bottom of the Browser, the Control bar provides a few useful tools when
browsing your file system, some of them depending on the type of the files selected in the Re-
sult list:
▪ For all file types except Project, click the Autoload button at the far left of the Control bar to
automatically load the selected file in order to hear it in context with the rest of your
Project while it is playing. See section ↑4.3.1, Loading the Selected Files Automatically.
▪ For Samples, enable the Prehear button and adjust the volume fader next to it in order to
pre-listen to the selected Samples directly from the Browser in order to make a quick se-
lection. See section ↑4.3.3, Auditioning Samples.
▪ For Groups, enable the Load Patterns checkbox to load the Group’s Patterns together with
the Group. See section ↑4.3.4, Loading Groups with Patterns.
▪ For all files, click the Information button (showing a little “i”) near the EDIT button to dis-
play more information on the selected file(s). See section ↑4.3.6, Displaying File Informa-
tion.
▪ When a folder is selected, click the IMPORT button at the far right of the bar to import the
selected folder to the MASCHINE Library. Clicking the IMPORT button will open the Attrib-
ute Editor so you can assign tags to the selected files about to be imported. See section
↑4.5, Editing the Files’ Tags and Properties.
4.6.2 Using Favorites
Located at the top of the FILES pane, the Favorite bar displays all your Favorites.
The Favorite bar, at the top of the FILES pane.
Favorites are shortcuts to specific locations in your file system.
Browser
Loading and Importing Files from Your File System
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