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
ment. The right display shows you the pitch triggered by each pad. You can use Buttons 5–8 to
adjust the Root Note (triggered by pad 1), and Knobs 1–4 to configure the Scale engine and
limit the available pitches to a particular scale. By pressing KEYBOARD again, you can hide its
parameters from the displays and return to your previous workflow while keeping Keyboard
mode enabled on your pads; as a reminder, the KEYBOARD button will stay lit as long as your
pads are in Keyboard mode. Press SHIFT + KEYBOARD to switch your pads to Keyboard mode
without switching the displays to the mode parameters.
(12) CHORDS button: Press CHORDS to switch the pads to Chords mode. The Chords mode is
similar to the Keyboard mode (see the KEYBOARD button (11) above) with the difference that
each pad triggers a whole chord instead of a single note. You can use Knob 3 and 4 to config-
ure the chord you want to play. By pressing CHORDS again, you can hide its parameters from
the displays and return to your previous workflow while keeping Chords mode enabled on your
pads; as a reminder, the CHORDS button will stay lit as long as your pads are in Chords mode.
Press SHIFT + CHORDS to switch your pads to Chords mode without switching the displays to
the mode parameters.
(13) STEP button: Press STEP to switch the pads to Step mode. Step mode turns your MA-
SCHINE controller into a full-featured step sequencer. In this mode, each pad represents one
step of the selected Step Grid resolution. During playback, a running light through the pads
represents the current position of the step sequencer. Pressing the pads creates notes on the
corresponding steps (causing them to light up) or it removes them. For more information on
Step mode, refer to Creating Beats with the Step Sequencer. By pressing STEP again, you can
hide its parameters from the displays and return to your previous workflow while keeping Step
mode enabled on your pads; as a reminder, the STEP button will stay lit as long as your pads
are in Step mode. Press SHIFT + STEP to switch your pads to Step mode without switching
the displays to the mode parameters.
(14) FIXED VEL button: Press FIXED VEL to enable/disable the Fixed Velocity option. By default,
the pads are sensitive to velocity: The harder you hit them, the louder the sound will be. With
Fixed Velocity enabled, your pads play at the same volume no matter how hard you hit them.
For example, this can be very handy when you are triggering slices of a loop from your pads
and want to have all slices at the same volume. Fixed Velocity is available in all four pad input
modes: Group, Keyboard, Chords and Step (see above for more info on these). Press SHIFT +
FIXED VEL to enable/disable the 16 Velocities option. In this mode your pads play the same
note (pitch) of the focused Sound but with 16 different velocity values. This can be useful to
Quick Reference
MASCHINE Hardware Overview
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