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
▪ The Pattern Editor displays the Pattern corresponding to the focused Group in this Section.
If there is no Pattern for the focused Group in the Section you have just selected, the Pat-
tern Editor is empty.
▪ Additionally, if the selected Section is outside the current Loop Range:
◦ The Loop Range is set to the selected Section.
◦ If playback is off the playhead immediately jumps to the beginning of the selected
Section. If playback is on the playhead jumps according to the Perform Grid settings.
For more info on the Loop Range see section ↑15.3.1, Section Management Overview.
For more info on the Perform Grid settings see section ↑15.3.1, Section Management
Overview.
Selecting Sections and Section Banks on the Controller
Selecting a Section Bank
To select a Section located in another Section bank than the one currently selected, you first
need to select that other Section bank:
► Press ARRANGE, the press Button 7 or 8 to select the previous or next Section bank, re-
spectively.
→ The desired Bank is selected.
If the last Section bank is selected and not empty, pressing Button 8 will create a new,
empty Section bank — see section ↑15.3.12, Creating and Deleting Section Banks for
more information.
You can also select Section banks in Section Arrange mode: press ARRANGE then But-
ton 1 (SECTION), then use Button 7 and 8.
Selecting a Section
To select a Section in the current Section bank:
1. Press ARRANGE, the press SCENE to access SECTION mode.
Working with the Arranger
Using Arranger View
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