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
On the left of the Event area, a vertical piano roll indicates the note corresponding to each row
in the Event area. Octaves are indicated by a number on each C key: e.g., the middle C, which
is noted C3 in the MASCHINE convention, will read “3.” Click any note on the piano roll to
trigger the selected Sound at that particular pitch.
This view is well suited for melodic instruments (e.g., a piano), since you can focus on a par-
ticular Sound, and edit notes at every pitch.
Switching Between Group and Keyboard View from the Controller
The Group/Keyboard view in the software is always in sync with the Group/Keyboard/Chords
mode of the pads on your controller: Switching between Group and Keyboard view in the soft-
ware will automatically switch between Pad Mode and Keyboard mode on your controller (and
inversely).
As a consequence, to switch the Pattern Editor between Group and Keyboard view, you simply
need to switch your pads between Group and Keyboard mode:
► Press PAD MODE on your controller to switch the Pattern Editor to Group view.
→ The Pattern Editor in the software switches to Group view.
► Press KEYBOARD/CHORDS on your controller to switch the Pattern Editor to Keyboard
view.
→ The Pattern Editor in the software switches to Keyboard view.
See The Pad View in the Software for more details on the various pad modes available on your
controller.
11.1.6 Adjusting the Arrange Grid and the Pattern Length
The Arrange Grid defines regularly spaced-out timings notably used in following situations:
▪ Adjusting the Pattern length (see below).
▪ Adjusting the Section lengths.
Adjusting the Arrange Grid
To adjust the Arrange Grid:
Working with Patterns
Pattern Basics
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