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
▪ If SOURCE is set to Internal, you can select the output of any available Group or the Mas-
ter.
You can easily record the output of a particular Sound by setting SOURCE to Internal, soloing this
Sound and selecting its parent Group in the INPUT selector!
You can also set SOURCE to Internal, choose as INPUT a Group with a drum kit loaded, and record
your live improvisations on the pads while playing this drum kit. You will then have your own im-
provisations recorded as Samples, ready to be used, edited, sliced, etc., as any other Samples in
MASCHINE.
Choosing a Recording Mode
► Click the MODE selector to select from the three available recording modes:
▪ Detect: Select Detect mode to record audio after the set threshold has been exceeded. This
is useful when you want to record audio without the silence before the incoming sound is
played. If the focused Sound Slot contains neither an Audio nor Sampler plug-in, then the
recorded audio will be loaded automatically into a Sampler plug-in for the first Take. You
must trigger the Sampler with MIDI Events, such as those in a Pattern, to play back the
audio.
◦ If Detect is selected, you can set a certain threshold using the level THRESHOLD con-
trol on the right. After you clicked Start, any input signal level exceeding this thresh-
old will start the recording. You can then manually stop the recording by clicking
Stop. You can also adjust the threshold by dragging the slider that appears on the hor-
izontal input level meters above the RECORDING section:
Any input level reaching the slider position will start the recording. Double-click the
slider to reset the threshold to its default value (-12 dB).
▪ Sync: Select Sync to start recording audio in time with the Pattern Grid. If the focused
Sound Slot contains neither an Audio nor Sampler plug-in, then the recorded Sample will
be loaded automatically into a Sampler plug-in as the first Take. You must trigger the Sam-
pler with MIDI Events, such as those in a Pattern, to play back the audio.
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Recording Audio
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