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
12.1 Audio Routing in MASCHINE
MASCHINE offers a powerful audio routing system that you can finely customize to fit your
specific needs.
To make it short, by default the various channels of MASCHINE are structured in a simple, hi-
erarchical way:
▪ At the bottom level, each Sound has its own channel. The output of the Sound’s channel is
sent to its parent Group.
▪ At the mid-level, each Group has its own channel, which sums all channels of the included
Sounds. The output of the Group’s channel is sent to the Master.
▪ At the top level, the Master has its own channel, which sums the channels of all Groups
and ends up at the main output of MASCHINE. The output of the Master’s channel is sent
to your amplification system (in stand-alone mode) or to your host application (in plug-in
mode).
This default basic configuration can be customized in numerous ways. Using the audio settings
available in the Input and Output properties at the Sound, Group, and Master level, you can
build complex routings that cover a wide range of situations, as you will see in the next sec-
tions:
▪ Feed external audio to the input of your Sounds: ↑12.1.1, Sending External Audio to
Sounds.
▪ Adjust the main output of your Sounds and Groups, and route it to various destinations:
↑12.1.2, Configuring the Main Output of Sounds and Groups.
▪ Send auxiliary outputs of your Sounds and Groups to other destinations: ↑12.1.3, Setting
Up Auxiliary Outputs for Sounds and Groups.
▪ Choose the destination and settings for the Master output (MASCHINE’s main output) as
well as for the Cue bus used for pre-listening: ↑12.1.4, Configuring the Master and Cue
Outputs of MASCHINE.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Audio Routing in MASCHINE
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