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
11 Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
This chapter describes a few important topics and features of MASCHINE’s routing and assign-
ment system. Understanding these will be of great help in numerous MASCHINE workflows:
▪ We will explain how MASCHINE’s audio routing works and how to take advantage of its
flexibility: ↑11.1, Audio Routing in MASCHINE.
▪ We will describe how to route MIDI signals to and from your Sounds and Groups, and how
to control MASCHINE parameters via MIDI and host automation: ↑11.2, Using MIDI Con-
trol and Host Automation.
▪ We will show how to use the powerful Macro Controls to greatly improve your live experi-
ence by putting the desired parameters at your fingertips: ↑11.3, Creating Custom Sets of
Parameters with the Macro Controls.
The Channel Properties
Most of the features described here can be accessed via the Channel properties. Channel prop-
erties are global settings that apply to a particular Sound, Group, or to the Master independ-
ently of which Plug-ins are loaded in its Plug-in slots.
Channel properties are organized into four sets. Similar sets of properties are available for all
channels (Sounds, Groups, and Master): Input properties (unavailable for the Master), Output
properties, Groove properties, and Macro properties.
You can access Channel properties and their parameters via the same procedure as for Plug-
ins, both in the software and from your controller. Please refer to section ↑2.3.8, Navigating
Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pages in the Control Area for a detailed descrip-
tion.
The Input properties, Output properties, and Macro properties are covered in the following sec-
tions. For more information on the Groove properties, please refer to section ↑5.4.3, Groove.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
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