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
Command Description
Open containing folder Opens the folder on your hard disk containing the Sample, providing
quick access to the original file.
Save Sample As… Opens a Save Sample As dialog allowing to save the recorded Sample
under another name and/or to another location on your computer.
(2) Zooming scroll bar
Click the main part of the scroll bar and drag your mouse horizontally to scroll through the
waveform on the horizontal axis (time), or drag it vertically to zoom in/out on the same time
axis. You can also click the left or right handle of the scroll bar and drag it horizontally to zoom
in/out while keeping the opposite border of the display at a fix position in the waveform. Dou-
ble-click the main part of the bar to reset the zoom and display the entire waveform. Alterna-
tively you can use the scroll wheel of your mouse when hovering the waveform display (1) to
zoom in/out.
(3) Timeline
Shows the time scale in bars (Sync mode) or seconds (Detect mode).
(4) Information bar
Displays the file name and the length of the recorded Sample. Click and hold the little play
icon on the left to listen to the Sample on the Cue bus (see section ↑12.2.6, Using the Cue
Bus for more information). Click the little circle (or pair of circle) at the far right to switch the
waveform display (1) between single-channel and two-channel display.
(5) Recording History
All the recordings you have made since you opened the current Project are stored in the Re-
cording History and displayed as mini waveforms under the waveform display. The following
actions are available:
▪ Click any mini waveform to select the corresponding recording for displaying—you can then
further edit this recording via the other pages of the Sample Editor. When selected, a re-
cording is also automatically mapped to a new Zone covering the entire key and velocity
ranges in the Zone page. Any existing Zones will be replaced.
▪ Click and hold the little play icon in the bottom right corner to listen to the Sample on the
Cue bus without loading it in the waveform nor in the Zone page.
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Recording a Sample
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