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
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- Undo/Redo
- 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
- Loading a Recent Project from the Controller
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- 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
- 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
- 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
12.1.5 Mono Audio Inputs ..................................................................................................... 502
12.1.5.1 Configuring External Inputs for Sounds in Mix View ..................................503
12.2 Using MIDI Control and Host Automation .................................................................................... 506
12.2.1 Triggering Sounds via MIDI Notes .............................................................................. 507
12.2.2 Triggering Scenes via MIDI ........................................................................................ 513
12.2.3 Controlling Parameters via MIDI and Host Automation .............................................. 514
12.2.4 Selecting VST/AU Plug-in Presets via MIDI Program Change ..................................... 522
12.2.5 Sending MIDI from Sounds ........................................................................................ 523
12.3 Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls ................................................... 527
12.3.1 Macro Control Overview ............................................................................................. 527
12.3.2 Assigning Macro Controls Using the Software ........................................................... 528
13 Controlling Your Mix ..................................................................................................
535
13.1 Mix View Basics .......................................................................................................................... 535
13.1.1 Switching between Arrange View and Mix View ......................................................... 535
13.1.2 Mix View Elements ..................................................................................................... 536
13.2 The Mixer .................................................................................................................................... 537
13.2.1 Displaying Groups vs. Displaying Sounds .................................................................. 539
13.2.2 Adjusting the Mixer Layout ........................................................................................ 541
13.2.3 Selecting Channel Strips ........................................................................................... 542
13.2.4 Managing Your Channels in the Mixer ....................................................................... 543
13.2.5 Adjusting Settings in the Channel Strips ................................................................... 545
13.2.6 Using the Cue Bus ..................................................................................................... 549
13.3 The Plug-in Chain ....................................................................................................................... 551
13.4 The Plug-in Strip ........................................................................................................................ 552
13.4.1 The Plug-in Header .................................................................................................... 554
13.4.2 Panels for Drumsynths and Internal Effects .............................................................. 556
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