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
Selection Tool Description
Pads Unlit pads indicate Sounds for which the Pattern has no events.
Nothing happens when you press them.
Dimmed pads indicate Sounds for which events can be selected: Press
any dimmed pad to add all events for that Sound to the selection. The
pad turns fully lit to indicate that all its events are selected. You can
press any additional dimmed pad to add its events to the selection.
Pressing a dimmed pad additionally switches the focus to the
corresponding Sound.
Fully lit pads indicate Sounds for which all events are selected: Press
any lit pad to remove all its events from the selection (the pad turns
dim lit).
Button 5/6 (ALL/
NONE)
Selects/deselects all events for all Sounds, i.e. all events in the
Pattern.
Button 7/8 (UP/
DOWN)
Switch the focus to the previous/next Sound in order to add or remove
some of its events to/from the selection (using Knob 1, 2, and 4, and
the Page buttons, see below). The name of the selected Sound is
indicated under the EVENTS label in the top left corner of the left
display.
Page buttons Drop the current selection and select the previous/next individual
event for the focused Sound.
Knob 1/2 (START/
END)
Define the start and end points in the timeline for the selected event
of the focused Sound. All events within this time interval are included
into the selection.
Knob 4 (EVENT) Selects individual events for the focused Sound using the events’
index number (their “order of appearance” in the Pattern). If the
selection contains more than one event, the EVENT field indicates
(MULTI).
By combining these tools you can precisely define the selection of events you want to edit.
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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