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
Selection Tool Description
Pads Unlit pads indicate pitches at which the Pattern has no notes. Nothing
happens when you press them.
Dimmed pads indicate pitches at which notes can be selected: Press
any dimmed pad to add all notes at that pitch to the selection. The
pad turns fully lit to indicate that all its notes are selected. You can
press any additional dimmed pad to add its notes to the selection.
Fully lit pads indicate pitches at which all notes are selected: Press any
lit pad to remove all its notes from the selection (the pad turns dim
lit).
4-D encoder Select an event: Turn the 4-D encoder to select an event.
Nudge: Move the 4-D encoder left/right to nudge the selected event.
Press Button 4 (GRID) to move events relative to the value of the Step
Grid.
Change pitch: Move the 4-D encoder up/down to change the pitch of
the selected event.
Change event length: Press and turn the 4-D encoder to change the
length of the selected event. Press Button 4 (GRID) to resize events
relative to the value of the Step Grid.
Button 2 (SELECT) Switch between Event Select mode and Event Edit mode.
Button 4 (GRID) Selects/deselects the Step Grid. When the GRID is selected, events
can be nudged or resized with the 4-D encoder relative to the value of
the Step Grid. Press SHIFT + FOLLOW (Grid) to access the Step Grid.
Button 5/6 (ALL/
NONE)
Selects/deselects all notes for all pitches of the current Sound, in
short all events of that Sound.
Button 7/8 (UP/
DOWN)
Switch the focus to the previous/next Sound in order to add or remove
some of its notes to/from the selection. The name of the selected
Sound is indicated under the EVENTS label in the top left corner of
the left display.
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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