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
 
In order to  be modulatable,  parameters of Plug-ins  and Channel  properties have to  meet fol-
lowing requirements:
▪ The  parameter  must  be  controlled  by  a  knob  or  a  button  in  the  software. Most  parameters
controlled  by  selectors  (e.g.,  for  selecting  an  operating  mode  or  a  filter  type)  cannot  be
modulated — however there are a few exceptions.
▪ The parameter must be at the Group or Sound level. Parameters at the Master level cannot
be modulated.
This second rule is also true for Plug-ins: if a Plug-in is loaded at the Master level, its parameters
will not  be modulatable —  but  the same Plug-in  loaded  at the Group  or  Sound level  will  have its
parameters modulatable.
Almost all parameters meeting these requirements can be modulated, the only exceptions be-
ing:
▪ Plug-ins:
◦ Saturator: in Tube mode, the Bass Overload button (MAIN section) and Bypass button
(EQ section).
◦ Percussion (Drumsynth): in Fractal mode, the Tune Hold button in the Main page.
▪ Channel properties:
◦ Sound’s and Group’s Output properties: the Cue button in the Audio page.
◦ Group’s Input properties: the Root Note knob in the MIDI page.
At  the  Sound  and  Group  level  the  same  parameters  are  both  automatable  and  modulatable.  For
more  information  on  automation  please  refer  to  section  ↑12.2.3,  Controlling  Parameters  via  MIDI
and Host Automation.
Also note that your Macro Controls will be modulatable if, and only if, their target parameters
are  themselves  modulatable.  For  more  information  on  Macro  Controls  please  refer  to  section
↑12.3, Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls.
Working with Patterns
Recording and Editing Modulation
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