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
▪ Individual events/notes are represented by rectangular blocks. These always mirror the
steps currently represented by your pads. In both Group and Keyboard mode, velocities are
indicated by the event transparency: the more transparent the event, the softer the velocity
(in Group mode velocities are additionally indicated under each event in the display).
▪ The playback position in the Pattern is indicated by a playhead travelling from left to right.
▪ The Step Grid is displayed in the background.
To switch the right display and your pads to another part of the sequence, you have two possi-
bilities:
► Press Button 3 (FOLLOW) to enable/disable the Follow function.
→ When Follow is enabled, the right display and your pads automatically switch to the next
16 steps as soon as the playback position reaches the end of the portion currently dis-
played.
This Follow function is always synchronized with the Follow function in the software.
See ↑10.1.3, Following the Playback Position in the Pattern for more information.
When you hold a particular pad (to record some modulation for this step, see ↑10.3.3,
Recording Modulation in Step Mode), the Follow function is temporarily disabled — it is
automatically re-enabled when you release the pad. See below for more information on
recording modulation in Step mode.
Otherwise you can manually switch to the previous/next steps:
► Turn Knob 6 to manually switch to the previous/next 16 steps both on your pads and on
the right display.
If you manually switch to the previous/next 16 steps during the playback with FOLLOW
enabled, FOLLOW is automatically disabled.
Unlike in Event Edit mode, Knob 5 does not adjust the zoom factor here: Indeed, since
the display always represents 16 steps of the Pattern, the zoom factor is directly defined
by the Step Grid resolution!
Working with Patterns
Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
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