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
4. If necessary, reopen the same submenu and select the MIDI channel the Scene changes
should receive MIDI messages from (channel 1 by default).
MIDI Scene change has priority over Lock change. If you select the same MIDI Source and Channel
for Lock and Scene changes, only Scenes will be triggered by the corresponding events coming from
the MIDI source. Corresponding Lock snapshots will not be recalled.
5. For more information on MIDI Lock Changes refer to ↑6.5.7, Triggering Lock Snapshots
via MIDI.
12.2.3 Controlling Parameters via MIDI and Host Automation
You can assign many parameters of the Channel properties and Plug-ins located in your various
channels (Sounds, Groups, and Master) of your Project to MIDI messages in order to control
and automate them via MIDI.
In addition, when MASCHINE is running as a plug-in, you can assign these parameters to auto-
mation IDs in order to control and automate them via host automation tracks in your host.
Configuring MIDI and host automation is possible in the software only.
In MASCHINE, automation means the control of MASCHINE parameters from an external source
(MIDI or host application). Value changes are:
▪ Permanent: The new parameter value stays valid until a new value is defined (via MIDI/host
or manually), even when the playback is looped or restarted.
▪ Absolute: The new parameter value is defined regardless of its current value.
Automation vs. Modulation
Although both deal with automatic change of MASCHINE parameters, automation and modula-
tion have to be distinguished. The following table summarizes the main differences:
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
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