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
To play one or more Sounds via MIDI notes independently of the Sound currently focused, you
need to configure the MIDI input settings of your Sound(s) or of their Group, i.e. define how
the Sound(s) or the Group should react to incoming MIDI notes. This is done in the MIDI page
of the Group or the Sounds Input properties.
There is no MIDI page in the Input properties of the Master.
When configuring these MIDI input settings, keep in mind the following:
▪ MIDI input settings for a Group affect all Sounds in the Group: Each Sound will be triggered
by a different MIDI note. Typically, this allows you to quickly set up a MIDI remote control
for an entire drum kit.
▪ MIDI input settings for a Sound affect only that Sound: Incoming MIDI notes will trigger dif-
ferent notes of this Sound. Typically, this allows you to control a melodic instrument via
MIDI. More precisely, the incoming MIDI notes will be routed to the first Plug-in slot of the
Sound.
If the Sound has no Plug-ins, incoming MIDI notes will be forwarded to the Sound’s
MIDI output, if enabled (see section ↑11.2.5, Sending MIDI from Sounds).
▪ MIDI input settings of a Sound and its parent Group are merged: For example, if you con-
figure a Group to react to incoming notes on MIDI channel 1, but one Sound is setup to
react to incoming notes on MIDI channel 2, then this Sound will react to one incoming
note on MIDI channel 1 and all incoming notes on channel 2.
▪ The MIDI input settings described here also affect other MASCHINE features:
◦ The preset selection via MIDI Program Change for Native Instruments and External
Plug-ins. See section ↑11.2.4, Selecting VST/AU Plug-in Presets via MIDI Program
Change for more information.
◦ The way MIDI files are imported to Sounds and Groups. See section ↑10.8.3, Import-
ing MIDI to Patterns for more information.
◦ The way the MIDI dragger in the Pattern editor places Sounds when they are dragged
to host software.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Using MIDI Control and Host Automation
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