User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Quick Reference
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- Undo/Redo
- 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
- Navigating the Software Using the Controller
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Loading a Recent Project from the Controller
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- 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
- 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
- Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Song 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
- Clearing a Pattern in Song View
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- Working with Patterns in Song view
- 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
(7) Target selector: Displays and selects the target parameter of the selected Macro Control in-
dicated by the Focus frame (5). This multi-level drop-down widget allows you to quickly navi-
gate through the structure of the channel to the desired parameter. The detailed procedure is
explained in the next paragraph.
Selecting a Parameter in the Target Selector
The Target selector (see picture above) allows you to choose from all available parameters for
each Macro Control.
The Target selector allows you to quickly select the desired parameter.
This tool is similar to a menu containing several levels of submenus—with the notable differ-
ence that every intermediary selection stays visible for faster switching.
When assigning a new, unassigned Macro Control, do the following:
1. Click the Select menu (for now the only menu of the Target selector).
The menu is organized into subcategories: Settings (listing the properties of the current
channel), Slots (listing the Plug-ins loaded in the current channel), and possibly a third
category listing the channels included at the next level: if you’re editing the Macro proper-
ties of the Master you will see the Groups subcategory listing all Groups of your Project,
and if you are editing the Macros of a Group you will see the Sounds subcategory listing
all Sounds in that Group, and if you are editing the Macro properties of a Sound you will
see the MIDI menu item which upon selection lists all available Control Change messages
that can be assigned to a Macro Control.
The Macro Control menu item Select > MIDI lists the full range of MIDI Control Change messages
from 0-127 which can be individually assigned to a Macro Control in order to control parameters on
an external MIDI device. If you are unsure which MIDI Control Change message can be used to con-
trol a particular parameter, please check the documentation that came with your MIDI device for
details.
Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
Creating Custom Sets of Parameters with the Macro Controls
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