User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- 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
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Touch Auto-Write Option
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- Using Footswitches with 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 Mode 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
- Audio Routing in MASCHINE
- Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
- Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Arranger 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
- Assigning and Removing Patterns
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- 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
◦ The right display shows events for the focused Sound in one row at the top along with
their velocities underneath.
▪ If your pads are in Keyboard mode both displays show notes for the focused Sound across
the pitch scale. Depending on the pitches of the existing notes, turn Knob 7 to scroll pitch-
es in the right display (in the left display the vertical zoom factor is automatically adjusted
so that all notes appear in the display).
Recording a Sequence
1. Set the focus on the Sound you want to record by holding SELECT and pressing the pad
of the desired Sound (see section ↑2.3.6, Focusing on a Group or a Sound). You can also
hold SHIFT and use Button 7 (UP) and Button 8 (DOWN) to select the previous or next
Sound in the Group, respectively.
2. Press PLAY.
You will see the playback position in the form of a light chasing through the pads, starting
from pad 1, going up all four rows from left to right and ending at pad 16. At any time
you can enable/disable PLAY as you see fit (e.g., to check how your actions affect the Pat-
tern).
3. Press an unlit pad to create an event on that step.
The pad lights up to indicate that there is an event on that step. The new event is one
step long. The next time the playback position reaches that step the new event will be
played.
4. Press a lit pad to remove that step.
The pad turns off and the event on that step is deleted.
5. When you are done with the sequence of that Sound, repeat the previous steps to create
sequences for all desired Sounds.
This way it’s easy to quickly put some drums together.
Working with Patterns
Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
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