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
▪ If SOURCE is set to Internal, you can select the output of any available Group or the Mas-
ter.
You can easily record the output of a particular Sound by setting SOURCE to Internal,
soloing this Sound and selecting its parent Group in the INPUT selector!
You can also set SOURCE to Internal, choose as INPUT a Group with a drum kit loaded,
and record your live improvisations on the pads while playing this drum kit! You will
then have your own improvisations recorded as Samples, ready to be used, edited,
sliced, etc., as any other Samples in MASCHINE!
Choosing a Recording Mode
► Click the MODE selector to select from the two available recording modes:
▪ Sync: If Sync is selected, you can synchronize the recording function to the sequencer, so
that the recording starts in sync with the sequencer after you clicked Start. The recording
will start at the top of the next bar. The LENGTH control on the right allows you to choose
a length for the Sample to be recorded: either 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 bars — or choose Free if
you don’t want to set any duration limit to the recording. At any time you can click Stop to
stop the recording before the duration defined by LENGTH has been reached — the record-
ing will then stop at the next bar.
▪ Detect: If Detect is selected, you can set a certain threshold using the THRESHOLD control
on the right. After you clicked Start, the input signal level exceeding this threshold will
start the recording. You can then manually stop the recording by clicking Stop. This is use-
ful to record a singer or an instrumentalist, for example. You can also adjust the threshold
by dragging the slider that appears on the horizontal input level meters above the RECORD-
ING section:
Any input level reaching the slider position will start the recording! Double-click the slider
to reset the threshold to its default value (-12 dB).
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Recording a Sample
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