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
◦ Above the arrangement overview, you see the name of the Project, the focused Group
or the focused Sound (depending on which of the MASTER, GROUP or SOUND tab is
selected in the software’s Control area) along with the current tempo and playback po-
sition.
▪ The right display provides a detailed view of a portion of your Pattern:
◦ The name of the selected Pattern is indicated at the top of the display (6).
◦ The velocity of each event/note is indicated by its transparency. If visible, selected
events/notes are highlighted.
◦ With the pads in Pad Mode, the display shows events for all Sounds in the Group. The
16 Sound slots of the Group are represented in the leftmost column by their index
number (5). The focused Sound is highlighted.
◦ With the pads in Keyboard mode, the display shows notes on two octaves for the fo-
cused Sound. On the left a piano roll (4) indicates the pitch of the various events. On
the piano roll, each C is indicated by its octave number and the middle C (C3 in the
MASCHINE convention) is colored. Additionally the pitch of any played note is high-
lighted. Turn Knob 7 to scroll on the pitch axis (vertical axis) from events at the lowest
pitch until events at the highest pitch. If all events are within two octaves, they all ap-
pear in the display and Knob 7 is inactive.
◦ Horizontally, the displayed time interval is variable: Turn Knob 5 and 6 to zoom and
scroll horizontally in the right display to your liking, respectively.
◦ As in the left display, you can see a timeline (7) at the top and a vertical playhead
indicator (8) across the entire display.
In Pattern Arrange mode the pads behave as in Control mode. In particular, this allows you to record
Patterns while seeing them developing in the displays! See section ↑11.2, Recording Patterns in
Real Time for more information on this.
Finally, the Pattern Arrange mode provides useful commands for the selected Pattern:
▪ Turn Knob 4 (LENGTH) to adjust the Pattern Length (see section ↑11.1.6, Adjusting the
Arrange Grid and the Pattern Length).
▪ Press Button 3 (DOUBLE) to double the Pattern (see section ↑11.4.9, Doubling a Pattern).
Working with Patterns
Pattern Basics
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