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
▪ The floating window also displays the Plug-in Header at the top. In addition to the Header’s
elements described in section ↑13.4.4, Custom Panels for Native Instruments Plug-ins,
this Header contains an additional Edit button (showing a pencil icon) allowing you to
switch to the Edit view, which shows the full interface of the original Native Instruments
product:
Closing the Plug-in’s Floating Window
► To dock a Native Instruments or External Plug-in back into the Plug-in Strip and close its
dedicated floating window, click the little diagonal arrow in the Plug-in placeholder (Na-
tive Instruments Plug-ins) or in the header of the generic Plug-in panel (External Plug-ins)
in the Plug-in Strip.
You can also close any floating window via the common button provided by your operating system at
the top left or right corner of the window. The Plug-in will be inserted back into the Plug-in Strip.
13.5 Controlling Your Mix from the Controller
Your controller provides a dedicated Mix mode. The Mix mode provides an overview of your
channels via a mixing desk layout, similarly to the Mixer in the software’s Mix view (see section
↑13.2, The Mixer).
The Mix mode on your controller and the Mix view in the software are independent from each other:
Switching views in the software does not switch the mode on your controller, and inversely — for
example, you can use your controller in Mix mode while displaying the Arrange view in the software.
► Press MIXER to enter or leave Mix mode on your controller.
When Mix mode is active, the MIXER button is lit.
Controlling Your Mix
Controlling Your Mix from the Controller
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