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
1. Turn Knob 5 and 6 to zoom in/out and scroll on the time axis (horizontal axis), respective-
ly.
2. If your pads are in Keyboard mode, turn Knob 7 to scroll on the pitch axis (vertical axis)
from events at the lowest pitch until events at the highest pitch.
The Event Edit mode is well suited for use with the Event Select mode! For example,
while in Event Edit mode, you can quickly hold EVENTS (in the TRANSPORT section of
your controller) to momentarily switch to Event Select mode, select particular events,
and release EVENTS to switch back to Event Edit mode and edit the events you have
just selected!
The Event Edit mode additionally provides a few selection shortcuts inspired from Event
Select mode: Hold SHIFT and use Button 5 and 6 to select/deselect all events dis-
played, and Button 7 and 8 to switch the focus to the previous/next Sound in the Group,
respectively.
Under the left display Knob 1–4 provide following editing functions:
Editing Tool
Description
Knob 1 (POSITION) Nudges selected events, i.e. shifts selected events on the timeline
according to the Nudge Grid (the events’ offsets relative to the Nudge
Grid are preserved). Hold SHIFT while you turn the knob to temporarily
override the Nudge Grid quantization and adjust the positions in
extremely small increments. See section ↑10.1.7, Adjusting the Step
Grid and the Nudge Grid for more information on the Nudge Grid.
If one event only is selected, its position is shown under POSITION. If
several events are selected, the field shows (MULTI).
See also the alternate method described below.
Knob 2 (PITCH) Transposes the selected events by semitones.
If one event only is selected, its pitch is shown under PITCH. If several
events are selected, the field shows (MULTI).
See also the alternate method described below.
Working with Patterns
Editing Events
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