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 desired Section is selected.
Upon your selection, the following happens:
▪ The Pattern Editor displays the Pattern corresponding to the focused Group in this Section.
If there is no Pattern for the focused Group in the Section you have just selected, the Pat-
tern Editor is empty.
▪ If you have selected the Section by pressing a pad, or if you have selected a Section out-
side the current Loop Range:
◦ The Loop Range is set to the selected Section, see section Selecting a Loop Range.
◦ If playback is off the playhead immediately jumps to the beginning of the selected
Section. If playback is on the playhead jumps according to the Perform Grid settings,
see section Jumping to Other Scenes.
▪ If you have selected a Section within the current Loop Range via the Page buttons, the
Loop Range and the playback position stay untouched.
Selecting Sections and Section Banks on the Controller
Selecting a Section Bank
To select a Section located in another Section bank:
1. Press SHIFT + SCENE to enter Song view.
2. Press and hold SCENE to enter Scene mode (or pin it by pressing SCENE + CONTROL).
3. Press SHIFT + Left/Right Arrow button to select the previous/next Section bank, respec-
tively.
If the last Section bank is selected and not empty, pressing SHIFT + Right Arrow button will create
a new, empty Section bank, see section ↑16.3.12, Creating and Deleting Section Banks for more
info.
Selecting a Section
► To select a Section in the current Section bank, press SCENE + the dim lit pad corre-
sponding to this Section.
Upon your selection, the following happens:
Working with the Arranger
Using Song View
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