User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
 - 2 Basic Concepts
 - 3 Browser
 - 4 Creating Sounds
 - 5 Creating Groups
 - 6 Working with Patterns (Hardware)
 - 7 Working with Patterns (Software)
- 7.1 The Pattern Editor
 - 7.2 Editing Patterns
- 7.2.1 Mouse actions in the Pattern Editor
 - 7.2.2 The Zoom Tool
 - 7.2.3 Compare/Split
 - 7.2.4 The Piano Roll/Keyboard
 - 7.2.5 Recording and editing automation
 - 7.2.6 Adding a Modulator
 - 7.2.7 Step Grid, Pattern Length Grid and Quantization
 - 7.2.8 Rendering Audio from Patterns using Drag & Drop
 - 7.2.9 Rendering MIDI from Patterns using Drag & Drop
 
 
 - 8 The MASCHINE Effects (FX)
 - 9 Using FX
 - 10 Creating a Song using Scenes
 - 11 Sampling & Sample Mapping
 - 12 The Master Section
 - 13 Exporting Audio
 - 14 Appendix A: MASCHINE Controller Quick Reference Chart
- 14.1 Basic Sequencer Controls
 - 14.2 Loading and Saving
 - 14.3 Scene Operations
 - 14.4 Pattern Operations
 - 14.5 Basic Editing
 - 14.6 Group Operations
 - 14.7 Sound Operations
 - 14.8 Effects
 - 14.9 Muting
 - 14.10 Soloing
 - 14.11 Automation
 - 14.12 Basic Sampling
 - 14.13 Secondary Pad Functions
 - 14.14 Navigation Shortcuts on the MASCHINE Controller
 - 14.15 Other Shortcuts on the MASCHINE Controller
 
 - 15 Appendix B: Keyboard Shortcuts
 - 16 Appendix C: Tips for playing live
 - 17 Index
 
MASCHINE 1.5 Reference Manual – 167
  Selecting the Input Source: Ext In 1
5.  Click on one of the FX Modules next to the Input Module and select an Effect using the 
Effect Menu from the upper right corner of the FX Tab. Alternatively you can also load a 
FX Preset by dragging it from the Browser or double-clicking it. 
 → Now the external audio will be processed by the Effect!
9.5  Recording FX automation
Automating FX is performed in the same way as automating one of the sampler parameters 
(see chapter 7, “Working with Patterns (Software)”).
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If you don’t know exactly what you can do with a certain effect, automating it using the 
Hardware is a good way to nd out!
9.6  Saving FX Presets
If you created a nice FX setting, you can put it to further use by saving it as an FX Preset. 
To save an FX Preset simply select the entry Save... in the dropdown menu of the FX Module 
containing the Effect you want to save.










