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
2.5 Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode ................................................................................................... 63
2.5.1 Differences between Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode ................................................. 63
2.5.2 Switching Instances .................................................................................................. 64
2.5.3 Controlling Various Instances with Different Controllers ........................................... 65
2.5.4 Controlling your Host’s Transport Functions in Plug-in Mode .................................... 66
2.6 Preferences ................................................................................................................................. 66
2.6.1 Preferences – General Page ....................................................................................... 67
2.6.2 Preferences – Audio Page .......................................................................................... 71
2.6.3 Preferences – MIDI Page ............................................................................................ 74
2.6.4 Preferences – Default Page ....................................................................................... 77
2.6.5 Preferences – Library Page ........................................................................................ 81
2.6.6 Preferences – Plug-ins Page ..................................................................................... 89
2.6.7 Preferences – Hardware Page .................................................................................... 94
2.6.8 Preferences – Colors Page ......................................................................................... 98
2.7 Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup .................................................................................... 100
2.7.1 Connecting External MIDI Equipment ........................................................................ 100
2.7.2 Sync to External MIDI Clock ....................................................................................... 101
2.7.3 Send MIDI Clock ......................................................................................................... 102
2.8 Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link ....................................................................................... 103
2.8.1 Connecting to a Network ............................................................................................ 103
2.8.2 Joining and Leaving a Link Session ........................................................................... 104
2.9 Using Footswitches with the MASCHINE Controller ..................................................................... 105
3 Browser ....................................................................................................................
106
3.1 Browser Basics ........................................................................................................................... 106
3.1.1 The MASCHINE Library ............................................................................................... 106
3.1.2 Browsing the Library vs. Browsing Your Hard Disks ................................................... 107
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