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
Parameter Description
AUTO-SNAP (Manual
mode only)
The Sample Slicer Manual mode Auto-Snap feature automatically
aligns Slice points to the nearest transient as you manually trigger
the slicing from the pads. It can be turned off so that slice points are
instead placed exactly where you trigger them. In order to use Auto-
Snap, you must wait for analysis to be performed on the sample
you’re slicing—the analysis is very quick but will take longer for long
audio files.
SENSITIVITY (Detect
mode only)
When MODE is set to Detect (see above), SENSITIVITY lets you
adjust the sensitivity of the transient detection. Higher values will
cause more Slices to be detected because more transients will be
recognized, lower values will result in less Slices. This parameter
should be adjusted until all the musically significant slices are being
detected in the waveform.
APPLY Section
MONO The Sample Slicer Mono option when activated automatically sets
the Voice and Choke Group of all sample slices to 1 when slicing to a
Group.
This time saving feature is useful when you don’t want to have lots of
samples triggered or repeating at the same time, for example, when
you slice a drum loop and trigger the individual hits to form a new
pattern. When Mono is selected and the slices are applied to a
Group, the sampler polyphony is automatically set to 1 so only one
voice will play at a time. The Choke Group is also automatically set to
1 so each new pad that is hit will always take priority over the
previous one by cancelling it out. This behavior can be found on
vintage drum machines (typically used to “choke” the open hi-hat
with the closed one), but also in monophonic synthesizers that are
only capable of playing one note at a time.
BPM (BPM Mode)
Selects how the tempo is defined: If you select Auto, MASCHINE will
calculate the tempo automatically. If you select Manual, you can
enter the tempo in BPM manually.
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Slicing a Sample
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