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
15 Effect Reference
MASCHINE provides a healthy selection of more than 20 different Effect Plug-ins that can be
quickly applied to Sounds, Groups and the Master, all as insert effects. By using MASCHINE’s
powerful routing system, it is also easy to setup send effects, build complex effect chains or
apply an effect to an external source that is connected to your audio interface, such as an in-
strument, vocals or a turntable. We recommend you load a Project from the factory library to
get to know how effects can be used.
This chapter will describe the effects and their parameters. Fore more information on how to
use effects within your Project, please read chapter ↑14, Using Effects.
Available Effects
Many types of effects are available and nearly all applications are represented. You will of
course find traditional effects such as delays, reverbs and distortions, as well as engineering
tools such as EQs, dynamics, and filters. But we have also provided you with a series of unique
and unusual effects such as Reflex, Ice, and Resochord.
Effects are organized into following categories:
▪ Dynamics: Compressor, Gate, Transient Master, Limiter, and Maximizer. See section ↑15.1,
Dynamics.
▪ Filtering effects: EQ and Filter. See section ↑15.2, Filtering Effects.
▪ Modulation effects: Chorus, Flanger, FM, Freq Shifter, and Phaser. See section ↑15.3, Mod-
ulation Effects.
▪ Spatial and Reverb effects: Ice, Metaverb, Reflex, Reverb, and Plate Reverb. See section
↑15.4, Spatial and Reverb Effects.
▪ Delays: Beat Delay, Grain Delay, Grain Stretch, and Resochord. See section ↑15.5, Delays.
▪ Distortion effects: Distortion, Lofi, and Saturation. See section ↑15.6, Distortion Effects.
▪ Performance FX: Designed for spontaneous, tactile control in recording or live performance,
these complex multi-effects alter motion, space, dynamics, and more for added expression.
See section ↑15.7, Perform FX.
Effect Reference
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