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
Action Function
[Ctrl] + drag left/right note border
(macOS: [Cmd] + drag left/right border)
Freely moves the start/end of selected notes
(overrides the Step Grid quantization),
thereby resizing the notes.
Drag note vertically Group view: Moves selected notes to another
Sound of the Group.
Keyboard view: Transposes selected notes.
* When editing, mouse actions can be performed on any of the selected notes — they will ap-
ply to all selected notes.
Mouse in Paint Mode
With Paint mode enabled, the mouse works like a paint-brush tool:
► Click in the background of the Event area and drag the mouse with the button pressed to
set notes wherever you move the cursor. Notes are created only for the Sound in which
you started.
The other way round:
► Click a note and move the mouse cursor with the button pressed to erase all notes under
the mouse cursor. Only Notes for the selected Sound are erased.
Additionally, you can resize notes like in Select mode:
► Drag the left or right border of a note horizontally to move its start/end according to the
Step Grid. Hold [Ctrl] ([Cmd] on macOS) while dragging to override the quantization.
Mouse in Erase Mode
With Erase mode enabled, the mouse works like an eraser:
► Click and hold the left mouse button down to erase notes wherever you move the cursor.
Contrary to Paint mode, in Erase mode notes are always deleted, no matter if you first
click a note or in the background of the Event area. Furthermore, in Erase mode notes
can be deleted in several Sounds at once, independently of where you first clicked.
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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