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
 
13.4.3 Panel for the Sampler ................................................................................................ 557
13.4.4 Custom Panels for Native Instruments Plug-ins ........................................................ 560
13.4.5 Undocking a Plug-in Panel (Native Instruments and External Plug-ins Only) ............ 564
14 Using Effects .............................................................................................................
567
14.1 Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master .................................................................... 567
14.1.1 Adding an Effect ........................................................................................................ 567
14.1.2 Other Operations on Effects ....................................................................................... 574
14.1.3 Using the Side-Chain Input ....................................................................................... 575
14.2 Applying Effects to External Audio .............................................................................................. 578
14.2.1 Step 1: Configure MASCHINE Audio Inputs ................................................................ 578
14.2.2 Step 2: Set up a Sound to Receive the External Input ................................................ 579
14.2.3 Step 3: Load an Effect to Process an Input ................................................................ 579
14.3 Creating a Send Effect ............................................................................................................... 580
14.3.1 Step 1: Set Up a Sound or Group as Send Effect ........................................................ 581
14.3.2 Step 2: Route Audio to the Send Effect ...................................................................... 583
14.3.3 A Few Notes on Send Effects ...................................................................................... 583
14.4 Creating Multi-Effects ................................................................................................................ 584
15 Effect Reference ........................................................................................................
587
15.1 Dynamics .................................................................................................................................... 588
15.1.1 Compressor ............................................................................................................... 588
15.1.2 Gate ........................................................................................................................... 591
15.1.3 Transient Master ....................................................................................................... 594
15.1.4 Limiter ....................................................................................................................... 596
15.1.5 Maximizer .................................................................................................................. 600
15.2 Filtering Effects .......................................................................................................................... 603
15.2.1 EQ .............................................................................................................................. 603
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