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
6.1.4 Using Choke Groups
When your pads are in Pad Mode, Choke groups allow you to build sets of “mutually exclusive”
pads: A Choke group lets you force each newly triggered Sound to cancel out all other Sounds
still playing — in other terms, these Sounds would never play together, the newer Sound auto-
matically “killing” the audio of the older one. This is a behavior you can find in vintage drum
machines (typically used to “choke” the open hi-hat with the closed one), but also in mono-
phonic synthesizers that are only capable of playing one note at a time.
Within a Group, each pad can be assigned to one of eight Choke groups. When you assign a
pad to a Choke group, the pad may be set as a Master or Slave in the Choke group:
▪ If the pad is set to Master (default setting) it will kill the Sounds of other pads in the same
Choke group.
▪ If the pad is set to Slave it won’t kill any other pad of the Choke group — but be killed by
pads set to Master within the same group.
You may set more than one pad as Master or Slave within the same group.
Choke groups affect not only the notes you play on the pads and the notes triggered by the Patterns,
but also the MIDI notes controlling your Sounds.
You can select multiple Sounds and quickly assign them all to a particular Choke group at once!
To assign the selected Sound slot(s) to a Choke group and set its/their Choke mode (Master or
Slave), do the following:
1. Click the Pad View button above the Sound List in the Pattern Editor to show the Pad
view for the focused Group.
2. In the Choke section click the Group value and select the desired group 1–8 from the list
or choose None (default setting) to remove the Sound from its current Choke group.
3. In the same Choke section click the Mode value (Master or Slave) to switch the Sound
between Master (default setting) and Slave mode.
4. Repeat the steps above to assign other pads to the same Choke group.
Playing on the Controller
Adjusting the Pads
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