Native Instruments Maschine Manual

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2.4 native kontrol standard .................................................................................................... 57 2.5 stand‐alone and plug‐in mode ....................................................................................... 59 2.5.1 differences between stand‐alone and pl...

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3.5 editing the files’ tags and properties ......................................................................... 135 3.5.1 attribute editor basics ..................................................................................135 3.5.2 the bank page ..............................................

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5.1.1 the pad view in the software ....................................................................204 5.1.2 choosing a pad input mode ........................................................................206 5.1.3 adjusting the base key ...........................................................

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6.2.5 page 5: lfo ........................................................................................................275 6.2.6 page 6: velocity / modwheel ......................................................................277 6.3 using native instruments and external plug‐ins ..................

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8.5 the toms ................................................................................................................................. 348 8.5.1 tom – tronic ......................................................................................................350 8.5.2 tom – fractal ...........

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10.5 recording and editing modulation ................................................................................ 436 10.5.1 which parameters are modulatable? .....................................................437 10.5.2 recording modulation ......................................................

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12.2.4 managing your channels in the mixer ...................................................541 12.2.5 adjusting settings in the channel strips ..............................................542 12.2.6 using the cue bus ..................................................................................

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14.4.3 reflex ....................................................................................................................630 14.4.4 reverb (legacy) ...............................................................................................631 14.4.5 reverb .................................

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15.3.2 creating sections ............................................................................................702 15.3.3 assigning a scene to a section .................................................................703 15.3.4 selecting sections and section banks ...............................

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16.5.4 selecting and editing zones in the map view .....................................784 16.5.5 editing zones in the sample view ............................................................788 16.5.6 adjusting the zone settings ........................................................................

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1 welcome to maschine thank you for buying maschine! Maschine is a groove production studio that implements the familiar working style of classical groove boxes along with the advantages of a computer based system. Maschine is ideal for making music live, as well as in the studio. It’s the hands‐on ...

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1.2 document conventions this section introduces you to the signage and text highlighting used in this manual. This manual uses particular formatting to point out special facts and to warn you of potential issues. The icons introducing these notes let you see what kind of information is to be expect...

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For better reference, we applied a special formatting here: throughout the document, the ele‐ ments are capitalized and numbered, so the buttons above the displays are written button 1 to button 8, while the knobs under the displays are written knob 1 to knob 8. E.G., whenever you see an instruction...

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2 basic concepts this chapter will reintroduce you to maschine’s main elements and terminology and explain how they relate to one another. You will also learn how to set up your audio interface and how to con‐ nect midi devices. Before reading this chapter it is strongly recommended that you read th...

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Scene a scene is a combination of patterns for each group. They can be used to combine patterns in order to create musical ideas. Scenes are created in the ideas view and then added to sections in the arranger view to create an arrangement. Refer to chapter ↑15.3, using arranger view for more inform...

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The view submenu in the maschine menu. Full screen view is also available from your computer keyboard via [ctrl]+[f] (macos: [cmd]+[f]). 2.2.2 switching between ideas view and arranger view at any time you can quickly switch between the ideas view and the arranger view, using the ar‐ ranger view but...

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2.2.4 minimizing the mixer when maschine is in mix view, you can minimize/maximize the mixer in the top part of the ma‐ schine window: ► click the arrow button at the bottom left of the mixer to show and hide the channel details in the mixer. Minimizing/maximizing the mixer. 2.2.5 showing/hiding the...

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But in some situations you might want to release the mode button of a temporary mode without leaving that mode, e.G., to free your hand and tweak other controls more easily. For this purpose, maschine lets you pin (or “lock”) temporary modes so that they behave like permanent modes. 2.3.2 pinning a ...

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Take undo/redo is the default undo/redo in maschine. In the software use the common key‐ board shortcuts for the undo and redo functions: ► to cancel your last group of actions, press [ctrl]+[z] ([cmd]+[z] on macos). To re‐execute your last group of actions, press [ctrl]+[y] ([cmd]+[y] on macos). Yo...

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The focused group is highlighted and the pattern editor show its content. If the desired group does not appear in the group list, use the scroll bar at the right end of the arranger or turn your mouse wheel while hovering the arranger to display any hidden groups. You can also extend the arranger by...

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If the desired sound does not appear in the sound list, use the scroll bar at the right end of the pattern editor or turn your mouse wheel while hovering the pattern editor to display any hidden sounds. You can also select multiple sounds at once to apply changes to all of them. See section ↑4.1.3, ...

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→ the selected tab lights up. The name of your project, the focused group or the focused sound appears on the left display (under the master , group , and sound tabs), and the displays show the plug‐in parameters and channel properties of the master, the focused group or the focused sound, respectiv...

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If the plug‐in list only shows a “ + ” sign, it means that there are no plug‐ins loaded in this sound, group or the master. Clicking the “ + ” sign allows you to load a new plug‐in: see section ↑6.1.3, loading, removing, and replacing a plug‐in for more on this. Navigating parameter pages in some si...

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3. Press button 5 ( channel ) to display the channel properties or button 6 ( plug-in ) to dis‐ play the plug‐in slots of the selected sound, group or the master. 4. Press button 7/8 to navigate the channel properties or plug‐ins (the name of the selected channel properties or plug‐in appears betwee...

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8. Release navigate to get back to control mode (or press navigate a second time if you pinned the navigate mode). → the selected parameter page now appears on the displays. Extended navigate mode on your controller the navigate mode on your controller can be used to navigate the parameter pages of ...

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► to access another page with the page bank press buttons 7 and 8. The pages for the selected bank are displayed in the software and the controller. ► to access page navigation mode press navigate + shift + button 2. → when page navigate mode is enabled, your controller displays the page navigation ...

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▪ maschine studio controller: press shift + plug‐in , turn the jog wheel to select the de‐ sired instance, and press the jog wheel or button 8 to load it. ▪ maschine (mk1 & mk2) controller: press shift + step , turn knob 8 (or press button 5/6) to select the desired instance, and press button 8 to l...

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2.5 stand-alone and plug-in mode you can run the maschine software as a stand‐alone application or integrate it into your favor‐ ite host by loading it as a plug‐in. The maschine software is available in the vst, audio unit, and aax plug‐in formats. For further information on plug‐in compatibility a...

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Click the connect button to connect the controller to that instance. Switching instances using the controller to switch from one maschine instance to another: ▪ press shift + step . ▪ turn knob 5 (or press button 5/6) to select the desired instance. ▪ press button 8 to load that instance. 2.5.3 cont...

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The preferences – general page. Setting description startup reload last project click this checkbox to automatically reload the last project on startup. Recording audio basic concepts preferences maschine ‐ オペレーション マニュアル ‐ 63.

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Setting description quantize input quantize automatically quantizes your input to maschine as you record. Select one of the following input quantization modes: none : input quantization is disabled. Events you play or record on the pads are not quantized. Record : input quantization is applied only ...

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Setting description status this confirms whether your audio interface is currently running. Sample rate this displays the selected sample rate of your audio interface. Please re‐ start maschine after changing the sample rate. Asio config (windows only) click open panel to access specific controls re...

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Setting description sync mode click the drop‐down menu to set the midi sync mode preference for ma‐ schine: off : no midi sync mode is selected. Master (send clock) : if maschine is running as a stand‐alone application, it can also send a midi clock signal to any device that is capable of receiving ...

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Setting description project standalone here you can select a project to load automatically when you start a new project in maschine used as a stand‐alone application. The field displays the location of the template project selected for use. Click the folder icon to select another template project. A...

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Setting description sound default midi input mode maschine allows you to play your sound(s) via midi notes, for example, from a midi keyboard. By default and without any configuration, incoming midi notes on any midi port and any midi channel will trigger the pitch of the focused sound. In addition,...

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Element description location column displays the path of each library. If you have moved any library to another loca‐ tion on your computer, click the folder icon on the left of that library and select its new path. Product column displays the name of each product. These names cannot be edited. Resc...

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Element description location column displays the path of each library. If you have moved any library to another loca‐ tion on your computer, click the folder icon on the left of that library and select its new path. Alias column displays the alias stored for each library. Click an alias to edit it. ...

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▪ if you still want to cancel the scan, click cancel rescan at the bottom right, and the scan will be cancelled. ▪ if you prefer instead not to cancel the scan, click continue or press [esc] on your computer keyboard, and the scan will go on. If you cancelled the scan, any inconsistencies or missing...

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Manager pane ► to display the manager pane, click the manager button at the top of the plug‐ins page. In the manager pane of the plug‐ins page, you can enable/disable vst/au plug‐ins, rescan their directories, and set default presets for your native instruments and external plug‐ins. When a native i...

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Element description plug‐in column lists all available vst/au plug‐ins from the directories specified in the locations pane (see below). This includes all enabled or disabled 32‐bit vst/au plug‐ins, when maschine is running in 32‐bit mode or otherwise all enabled or disabled vst/au 64‐bit plug‐ins, ...

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The preferences panel – the plug‐ins page’s locations pane. The locations pane also contains the following controls: element description plug‐in column lists all plug‐in directories used in maschine. Click the folder icon on the left of an entry to change the path of that plug‐in directory. Add butt...

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The preferences panel – hardware page. Basic concepts preferences maschine ‐ オペレーション マニュアル ‐ 87.

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For more information on the midi mode, please refer to the controller editor manual. 2.6.8 preferences – colors page the colors page enables you to choose default colors for your scenes, groups, and sounds. ► to display the colors page click the colors tab on the left of the preferences panel. The p...

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You can use midi in maschine in various ways. Notably: ▪ you can synchronize a midi clock signal between maschine and other midi devices: ↑2.7.2, sync to external midi clock and ↑2.7.3, send midi clock . ▪ if you connect a midi keyboard to the midi in , you can directly play the focused sound with i...

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2.7.3 send midi clock if maschine is running as a stand‐alone application, it can also send a midi clock signal to any device that is capable of receiving midi clock. This could be hardware such as a drum machine, another groovebox, or even another software sequencer. If you use maschine as a plug‐i...

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▪ maschine will either join an existing link session or begin a new session. 2. Start maschine’s playback by clicking the play button. ▪ maschine’s playback is now synchronized with the link timeline. 3. To stop using link, and leave the session, click link again. While connected, the link button di...

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Which files are included in the maschine library? The files included in the maschine library are all maschine‐relevant files found in the folders whose paths are listed in the library page of the preferences panel. For more information on how to manage these library folders, please refer to ↑2.6.4, ...

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 the elements of the library pane. ( 1 ) library tab : click the library tab to open the library pane described here. ( 2 ) file type selector : this contains six icons, each representing the different files types of ma‐ schine. From the left to right the file types are project, gro...

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Overview of the search workflow in the library pane when searching for files via the library pane, you can progressively refine your search by fol‐ lowing this typical top‐to‐bottom workflow. The first two steps are mandatory: 1. Choose a file type in the file type selector ( 2 ). 2. Select between ...

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Selecting a product category ► click on the product selector header to open it. → the product selector opens up, showing you all products available in your maschine li‐ brary. 1 2 3 the opened product selector. ( 1 ) product selector header : the header shows the selected product—if there is no sele...

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The bank menu showing all banks for polyplex the bank menu allows you to select a particular bank of files for the selected product (poly‐ plex in the picture above). Banks can be additional libraries (for example massive expansions), different versions of the original factory library (for example f...

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→ the product selector opens up and displays the following: 1 2 3 the opened product selector (for instrument presets). ( 1 ) product selector header : the header shows the product or the selected product category — if there is no selection it shows a generic label ( all instruments in the picture a...

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→ the product selection is cancelled. The product selector displays the generic label corre‐ sponding to the selected file type (project, group, sound, instrument preset, effect preset or sample). The tag filter and the result list under the product selector now include files for all products. Selec...

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► press either page button (left of the displays) so that the header above the three fields of knob 1–3 read product . Selecting a product, a bank, and a sub‐bank on your controller. You can then use knob 1–3 as follows: 1. Turn knob 1 to select a product. Turn the knob at full left to remove any pa...

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Types and modes filters for the massive threat bank of the massive plug‐in. ► click the desired tags in the tag filter to select them and limit the search to the files marked with them. Click the selected tags again to deselect them and broaden the search. Tags for projects, groups, sounds, and samp...

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▪ now imagine that you have loaded an acoustic shaker sample and want to find a sample for another drum instrument, e.G., a tom: you leave the drums tag selected at the top level of the types filter and directly go to the second level, where you select tom instead of shaker . As you select tom , the...

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Highlighted triangle next to the attributes (types and modes). Selecting type and mode tags on the maschine controller on your controller in browse mode: ► press either page button (left of the displays) so that the header above the three fields of knob 1–3 read types or types / modes . Browser sear...

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The search field. ► click in the search field and type the desired text to limit the results to files containing this text. The search will be performed on the file paths, the file names, the products/banks/sub‐banks, the tags, and the properties directly as you type. If you want to search for a com...

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▪ if it is a sample, it will be loaded into the sound slot currently in focus. The sampler plug‐in will be automatically loaded in the first plug‐in slot in order to play the sample. The sample will spread over the entire velocity and note range. The file loaded will replace the object previously at...

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Deleting files in the result list you can delete user files directly from the result list: 1. Right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on macos) the desired user file and select delete from the context menu. If you want to delete several files at once, first select them as described above, and right‐click ([ctrl]‐...

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3.3.1 loading the selected files automatically ► click the autoload button to enable/disable autoload. The autoload button. When autoload is enabled, any item that you select in the result list of the library pane or files pane is automatically loaded into the focused group or sound slot or into the...

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▪ button 5 ( prev ) and 6 ( next ) do not automatically load the instrument preset they select as they usually do (see section ↑3.3.1, loading the selected files automatically ), but instead they play it back as well. ▪ to load the instrument preset, press the control encoder or button 8 ( load ). W...

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+patterns is only available when browsing groups. Loading groups with patterns using the controller when browsing groups on your controller: ► press shift + button 4 ( + pat ) to include or exclude patterns when groups are loaded. → when the option is enabled (button 4 lit and + pat label highlighte...

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The maschine browser showing all favorite instruments tagged with the type bass. To activate the favorites filter: browser using favorites in the browser maschine ‐ オペレーション マニュアル ‐ 131.

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2. Click on the set favorite icon to add the corresponding item to the favorites. → the item is added to the favorites, indicated by the lit set favorite icon next to its name: you can add any item in the results list to the favorites, no matter if it is selected or not. The set favorites icon will ...

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► the favorites filter is now activated and the results list shows all favorites that match the selected search criteria. Adding an item to the favorites to add a preset to the favorites follow the instructions below: 1. Press the browse button. 2. Select the item you want to set as a favorite by tu...

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Displaying attributes of factory files when browsing in the library pane, if the files selected in the result list are factory files (i.E. Files from any factory content) this will be indicated by a yellow read only item label next to the edit button at the bottom of the browser: factory files are l...

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▪ in the types page, click the name of a tag to select it and display its sub‐types in the next column to the right. In each column only one tag can be selected. The selected tag is high‐ lighted: assigning tags ► click the empty check box right of the desired tag name to assign this tag to the sele...

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3.6 loading and importing files from your file system the browser’s files pane allows you to browse your file system and import the desired folders to your maschine library. ► to display the files pane, click the files tab in the top left corner of the browser. 3.6.1 overview of the files pane the f...

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( 5 ) result list : the result list displays the content (files and folders) of the folder loaded in the location bar ( 3 ). Only maschine‐compatible files are displayed. See section ↑3.6.5, using the result list . ( 6 ) control bar : at the bottom of the browser, the control bar provides a few usef...

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◦ click any right-pointing arrow after a folder name to open a list of its subfolders, and select any entry in the list to jump to that folder: ◦ if all the levels cannot be displayed in the path, click the double left‐pointing arrow left of the path to display the remaining upper levels (up to the ...

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Navigating your file system in the result list you can further browse your file system in the result list by opening any of the displayed folder: ► double‐click a folder to display its content. To return to the previous folder or to select any folder outside the folder currently displayed, use the v...

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For this you will have to import the files into the library first. Importing files does not mean they will be moved from the directory they currently reside in, they will only be referenced by the browser. That’s why whenever you move files, make sure to update the paths to their respective director...

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The missing sample dialog allows you to locate missing samples. Sounds referencing missing samples are marked with an exclamation mark. Additionally, their groups are also marked with an exclamation mark when selected. The missing sample dialog shows you which sample cannot be found. Three buttons a...

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Quick browse is available for samples, plug‐ins presets (instruments and effects), sounds, groups. Depending on the type of file you are looking for, the quick browse function is activated by clicking the magnifying glass in either of the following locations: ▪ quick browse for projects, groups and ...

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1. Press browse to enter the browser. 2. Press button 1 and 2 to select the file type corresponding to the file you have focused/se‐ lected above. 3. Press button 3 ( locate ) to trigger the quick browse function. → the browser of your controller automatically recalls the search query used for that ...

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1 2 the group list (1) and the sound list (2) in the arrange view of the software. 4.1.1 the sound, group, and master channels from a routing point of view, each sound, each group, and the master represents a distinct channel in maschine. The channels of the 16 sounds in a group are mixed together a...

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▪ in each group you always have a fixed number of sound slots — namely 16. Some of these sound slots might be empty, and you can have gaps in your slots (i.E. Some empty sound slots between other slots containing sounds), depending on how you prefer to play your sounds from your pads. You cannot cre...

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What is affected by the multiple selection, and how? When multiple sounds or multiple groups are selected, any change in the following settings of the focused sound/group will be mirrored in the other selected sounds/groups, respectively: ▪ channel properties : parameter adjustments apply to all sel...

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Selecting sounds and groups via the select mode. You have following selection tools at your disposal: selection tool description pads press any pad to set the focus to that particular sound slot. The pad lights up to indicate that the sound slot is focused (and selected). Unlit pads indicate unse‐ l...

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► click the pad view button to show or hide the pad view. → the pad view replaces the sound list on the left of the pattern editor. In the pad view, each cell represents a pad on your controller and corresponds to a sound slot in the current group. You can select sound slots in either the sound list...

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Setting the focus on sounds without triggering them you can also set the focus on any sound in the current group without triggering it. This comes in handy if you are in a live situation and don’t want to trigger every single sound you select. To do this, use the select mode: 1. Press and hold the s...

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Notes on changing the color of multiple sounds when opening the color palette (in order to set a new color setting for the selected sounds): ▪ if the selected sounds have the same color setting (a particular color or the default color), this color is highlighted in the color palette. ▪ if the select...

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► right‐click (on macos: [ctrl]‐click) the sound slot in the sound list or in the pad view and select save as… from the context menu: a save sound dialog appears. By default, the sound file inherits the name of its sound slot and it will be saved in your standard user directory (as defined in prefer...

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When you copy a selection of sounds, they are both placed into the clipboard and kept in the sound list. The pasting procedure for multiple sounds is as follows: ▪ when you paste a selection of sounds onto a sound slot, the pasted sounds replace the cur‐ rent sound in that slot and in the following ...

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2. While holding the mouse button, drag your mouse toward the desired location in the sound list or in the pad view. As the mouse cursor moves an insertion line appears at the potential places where you can drop the sound slot(s). 3. When the insertion line appears at the desired location in the sou...

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Group menu many of the functions described in the following sections are available in the following two con- text menus : ▪ the context menu of the groups in the group list, opened via a right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on ma‐ cos) on the desired group: managing sounds, groups, and your project managing gr...

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▪ the focused group is indicated by the fully lit group button. ▪ the other groups of your project are indicated by half‐lit group buttons, each group button showing the color of the corresponding group. ▪ in the last group bank the last half‐lit group button is white: it doesn’t correspond to any e...

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You can rename groups as you see fit. Naming is only available from within the software, but any changes will also show up on your controller. Group renaming is performed like sound renaming: 1. Double‐click the name of the desired group in the group list or right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on macos) the g...

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Once you have set a custom color for a group as described above, the group will retain its color when you move it in the group list, and the color will be stored with the group when you save the group for later use. Note that you can select the same color as the one used by default: in that case the...

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3. Press [enter] to confirm and close the save group dialog. → your group is now saved. The group will be added to the library and is ready to be tagged in the browser — see section ↑3.5, editing the files’ tags and properties for more information on this. You can also save a group together with all...

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▪ when you paste a selection of groups onto an existing group, the pasted groups replace that group and the following groups. Example : if you paste the groups a1 and b1 onto the group e2, the duplicates of a1 and b1 will replace the groups e2 and f2, respectively (if, say, f2 didn’t exist it is aut...

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→ the group takes its new place in the group list. This new place is also mirrored on the pads of your controller. 4.3.8 deleting groups deleting a group will remove it from the group list. It is not possible to have a project without any groups; attempting to delete the last remaining group in a pr...

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4.4.1 saving a group with its samples sometimes it is useful to have the ability to save a group with its samples outside of the ma‐ schine library. If you want to take a group to another studio or if you want to backup or share a custom drum kit with all the related files, this comes in handy. To s...

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1. Choose save project with samples… from the file menu or the file submenu in the ma‐ schine menu: you will be presented with the save project with samples panel: 2. In this panel, adjust the settings (see table below) and click save to confirm or close to can‐ cel the operation. Element descriptio...

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2. Choose export audio… from the file menu or from the file submenu in the maschine menu. You will be presented with the export scenes as audio panel (see picture below). 3. Select the range and source and then the destination (see description below). 4. If you wish, adjust the export options in the...

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Element description range set the range for the audio you want to export. The options here will differ de‐ pending on whether maschine is in ideas view or arranger view. In ideas view the following options are available: all : select this option to export all scenes as audio. Selected : select this ...

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Element description options folder displays the folder on your hard disk where the exported audio file(s) will be saved. To change the destination folder, click the field and select the desired folder in the navigation dialog that opens. Name displays the name of the destination audio file which by ...

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Mpc parameter mpc500, 1000, 2500 mpc400 0 mpc2000 (xl) mpc300 0 maschine parameter sample level x x − − zone level sample pan − x − − zone pan range lower/higher x x − − high/low key tuning x x x x tune attack x x x x attack decay x x x x decay voice overlap x − x x polyphony filter1 type x − − − fi...

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Control description import all banks select this to import all banks of the mpc program file. Each bank will be loaded into a separate group. Import one bank select this if you only want to import a single bank. Use the drop‐down menu to the right to select which bank you want to import. The list be...

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The pad view replaces the sound list. At the top of the pad view, the grid of pads gives you access to all sound slots of the current group. The focused pad is fully lit; other pads containing a sound are dim lit; pads without any sound are off. The following actions are available in the grid: ▪ cli...

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Parameter description keyboard (button 2) activates/deactivates keyboard mode . In this mode your pads play notes of the focused sound at 16 different pitches. This is well suited for melodic instru‐ ments. The right display indicates the pitches played by each pad. See the next paragraph for a deta...

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See also 2 preferences – midi page [ ➙ 67] 5.1.3 adjusting the base key in group mode, the base key defines the key (or pitch) at which the selected sound will be played when its pad is pressed. In keyboard mode, it defines the key played by pad 1 on your controller; pads 2 – 16 will then play keys ...

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▪ if the pad is set to master (default setting) it will kill the sounds of other pads in the same choke group. ▪ if the pad is set to slave it won’t kill any other pad of the choke group — but be killed by pads set to master within the same group. You may set more than one pad as master or slave wit...

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5.1.5 using link groups when your pads are in group mode, link groups allow you to link pads with each other: this can be used to trigger multiple sounds when pressing only one pad. Each pad of a group can be as‐ signed to one of eight link groups. A pad may be set as a master or slave in the link g...

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5. Release pad mode (or press it again if you pinned the mode). 5.2 adjusting the key, choke, and link parameters for multiple sounds in the software, if you select multiple sounds with different key , choke and/or link values, the corresponding parameters in pad view now display multi . On your con...

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The base key also affects the pitch of events created via the step sequencer. See section ↑10.3.1, step mode basics for more information on this. Adjusting the base key only affects the notes played by the pads of your controller. It does not affect the notes recorded in your patterns! To adjust the...

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(see section ↑11.1.2, configuring the main output of sounds and groups ) as well as in solo and mute mode on your controller: activating the audio mute for sounds will ensure that not only the events are muted, but any remaining audio as well. To momentarily mute all audio from all sounds and groups...

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Muting a group. ► to unmute the group, click the group index again. Mute and solo on your controller to enter solo mode on your controller: the solo mode on the controller. 1. Press and hold solo to enter solo mode. You can also press solo + button 1 to pin this mode and make it permanent. 2. Solo s...

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▪ as a workflow aid, to stop long one‐shot samples that still continue playing after you have stopped the sequencer, ▪ as a first panic button, if you are not sure where in your project a particular sound is coming from, and you want to get rid of it. Contrary to the mute function, choke all notes i...

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This is how the same regular rhythm would be heard with various groove settings. The picture above only illustrates how the groove function affects the sound — adjusting the groove properties will not effectively move events in the patterns displayed in the pattern editor! 5.4.4 level, tempo, tune, ...

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3. To change the groove of an individual sound, hold its pad (or hold select + its pad if pads are in keyboard mode) and turn the swing knob. In keyboard mode you can also press select + the pad of the desired sound, then hold any pad (i.E. Any pitch of that sound) and turn the swing knob. → the adj...

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The control signal flow—pads in keyboard mode the following diagram illustrates maschine s signal flow between your hits on the pads in key‐ board mode and the resulting sounds: the signal flow including the new perform features (scale, chord, and arp) when your pads are in keyboard mode. In this pi...

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5.5.2 selecting a scale and creating chords maschine comes equipped with a vast amount of scales and chords that you can select and use to play your sounds. This opens up possibilities to play an instrument such as a piano ac‐ cording to, e.G., the minor pentatonic scale without hitting a “false” pa...

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Komplete kontrol s‐series owners: input from your komplete kontrol s‐series key‐ board can also be processed by the scale and chord engine. This is described in section using the perform features. ▪ the output of the scale and chord engine is recorded into the pattern editor. ▪ the scale and chord p...

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◦ harmonizer : generates chords based on the pads you hit and using notes from the se‐ lected scale, as specified by the root note and scale type parameters (see above). Use the chord type parameter to choose the particular notes to be used in the chord (see below). As the chord is triggered, pads o...

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When chord mode is set to chord set , pad 1 is fully lit: type of pad led in default state led when pad triggered pad 1 fully lit flash pads 2–12 dimly lit flash pads 13–16 off (pad inactive) enharmonic spelling of the root note on your controller, depending on the scale type, chord mode, and chord ...

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Komplete kontrol s‐series owners: the central clock is shared by all connected devices, so that e.G. Repeated notes triggered from your maschine controller and arpeggios triggered from your komplete kontrol s‐series keyboard will be synchronized even if the transport is not running. 5.5.5 swing on n...

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→ the pads change to provide an overview of all your lock snapshots. The dimly‐lit click‐pads represent your stored snapshots. The brightly lit pad represents the selected snapshot. 5.6.3 updating a lock snapshot if you have created a lock snapshot but find better settings you can update the lock sn...

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3. Press the pad containing the snapshot you want to delete. If necessary, press button 7 or 8 to access a lock snapshot from another bank. 4. Press button 6 delete to delete a snapshot. 5. Press the pad containing the snapshot you want to clear. → the snapshot is cleared. 5.6.7 triggering lock snap...

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6. If necessary, reopen the same submenu and select the midi channel the lock changes should receive midi messages from (channel 1 by default). Midi scene change has priority over lock change. If you select the same midi source and channel for lock and scene changes, only scenes will be triggered by...

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The control area displaying the content of the sound kick ordinance of the selected sound slot 1. Sounds, groups, and the master can each hold any number of plug‐ins. These are stacked up in the plug-in list , on the left of the control area. Working with plug-ins plug‐in overview maschine ‐ オペレーション...

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Instrument plug-ins effect plug-ins internal plug‐ins audio, sampler, drumsynth, bass synth maschine internal effects native instruments plug‐ ins vst/au instrument plug‐ins from na‐ tive instruments’ range of products vst/au effect plug‐ins from native in‐ struments’ range of products external plug...

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The control area will now show the content (channel properties or plug‐ins) of the sound we have just selected. 2. At the far left of the control area, click the little plug icon to display the plug‐ins. This displays the plug‐in list on the left of the control area: the plug‐in list is still empty,...

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A few plug‐ins loaded. This down‐pointing arrow lets you open the plug‐in menu for slots already hosting a plug‐in. ► in the plug‐in list, click the down‐pointing arrow at the right of a plug‐in name to open the plug‐in menu for that slot. You can also right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on macos) the plug‐in...

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Plug-in menu entry description external submenu lists the available external plug‐ins, i.E. The available vst/au instrument (first plug‐in slot of sounds only) and effect plug‐ins from third‐party man‐ ufacturers. Each entry is followed by the plug‐in type between brackets: (vst) or (au) . See secti...

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Loading a plug-in in place to load a plug‐in into the selected plug‐in slot, do the following: 1. Press shift + browse to open the plug‐in browser and browse the available plug‐ins. 2. On the left display, use knob 1 to select the type from internal , ni or external . The right display shows the lis...

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6.1.5 bypassing plug-in slots you can bypass (or “mute”) any plug‐in slot. When a plug‐in slot is bypassed, the plug‐in it con‐ tains is temporarily removed from the signal flow and does not process the audio passing through the slot. Instead, the incoming audio is directly sent to the next plug‐in ...

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6.1.6 using side-chain some plug‐ins provide side‐chaining. This allows you to control their influence on the audio via another audio signal sent to their secondary, side‐chain input. This extra routing feature is descri‐ bed in details in section ↑13.1.3, using the side‐chain input . 6.1.7 moving p...

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Way to recall plug‐ins with their parameters already set to specific values. In addition a plug‐in preset can be assigned as the default preset so the plug‐in opens with that preset automatically loaded. The maschine file format for native instruments plug‐ins allows you to save a preset in the for‐...

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Recalling plug-in presets all plug‐in presets you saved using the plug‐in menu are available in the browser, both in the software and from your controller. You can find each plug‐in preset automatically placed in the corresponding “instrument” or “effect” category in the file type selector of the br...

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Many of these parameters can be modulated and automated! For more information, see section ↑10.5, recording and editing modulation and ↑11.2.3, controlling parameters via midi and host automation , respectively. In case maschine cannot find the sample(s) loaded in a sampler plug‐in, a missing sample...

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Parameter description engine mode this allows you to select between different models for the sampling engine. Be‐ sides the default standard setting, the other options mp60 and s1200 emulate the sound of two legendary samplers that are often used in hip‐hop and similar genres of music. The latter co...

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▪ ahd : ahd mode disables the sustain and release controls of the adsr envelope (see be‐ low), and replaces them with the hold parameter. Ahd mode is ideal for “fire and forget” be‐ havior, whereby you would like to have the sound trigger for a certain amount of time regard‐ less of how long you hol...

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Parameter description sr sr stands for “sample rate”: you can use it to lower the original sample rate in order to make the sound more lo‐fi. Bits allows you to lower the original bit depth of the sound, resulting in a more rough, digital sounding lo‐fi effect. Filter the filter selector in the filt...

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Parameter modulation destination pitch tune parameter of the pitch / gate section on the pitch / envelope page (page 2). Cutoff cutoff parameter of the filter section (with filter types lp2 , hp2 , bp2 only) on the fx / filter page (page 3). Drive drive parameter of the fx section on the fx / filter...

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6.2.6 page 6: velocity / modwheel sampler parameters – page 6 of 6: velocity destination and modwheel destination on the controller. Sampler parameters – page 6 of 6: velocity destination and modwheel desti‐ nation in the software. Velocity destination this section allows you to use the input veloci...

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6.3.1 opening/closing plug-in windows when you load a native instruments or external plug‐in into a plug‐in slot, you can open a float‐ ing window containing the user interface of that native instruments or third‐party instrument/ef‐ fect. Plug‐ins of native instruments platform products (reaktor, k...

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Tween default and additional view by clicking the “ + ” button in the plug‐in header: these views are also available in the plug‐in’s panel in the plug‐in strip (mix view in the soft‐ ware). For more information, please refer to section ↑12.4.4, custom panels for native in‐ struments plug‐ins . ▪ ed...

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Parameter pages may be assigned automatically using auto-mapping (see section ↑6.3.2, using the vst/au plug‐in parameters above) or created individually via learn mode . With learn mode, you can create custom pages containing only the desired parameters arranged to fit your per‐ sonal workflow. More...

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( 3 ) add page button (“+” symbol) : click the little “ + ” after the last page label to append a new page. By default, pages are labeled “page 1,” “page 2,” etc. You can change page labels by defin‐ ing sections within your pages via the section label fields ( 2 ) — see above. ( 4 ) focus frame : i...

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The parameter pages’ context menu. The context menu contains the following items: menu item description keyboard shortcuts delete deletes current page with all assignments. Clear all clears all the assignments, and deletes all of the pages. 6.3.4 using vst/au plug-in presets for some of your native ...

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Each vst/au instrument or effect might handle its presets (or patches, programs…) differently. Please refer to the plug‐in documentation to find out how to reveal its presets (or a particular set of presets) to the host. For example, in massive, absynth 5, and fm8, you need to enable the program lis...

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7 using the audio plug-in the audio plug‐in can playback samples (drums, percussion, basslines, guitar riffs, etc.) in sync with the tempo of your project. It has two modes: loop mode and gate mode. ▪ loop mode is the default setting where the loaded loop will play continuously whenever there is an ...

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Element description tune transpose the tune (range: ‐36 – +36 semitones) of the audio plug‐in. You can use this knob to set the playback pitch of the loop to 'c', and then the loop's pitch will match the pitch of notes programmed into the pattern. To increase the tuning of the sample in semitones, t...

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By default the audio plug‐in will playback in loop mode, meaning the sample will be repeated for the duration of the pattern regardless of the length of the sample. If you want to chop the loop and pitch it, switch to gate mode. For more information on gate mode, refer the following sec‐ tion ↑7.2, ...

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Gate mode in the pattern editor with a sample and midi events. The process of using gate mode is as follows; load a loop onto a sound, select gate mode from the parameters of the audio plug‐in and then add midi events in the pattern in the regions where you want to chop and pitch your sample, or pre...

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Managing drumsynths drumsynths are maschine plug‐ins and, as such, they support all usual plug‐in actions and pro‐ cedures. Hence, to know how to load, remove, replace, insert, move, copy/paste drumsynths, as well as how to adjust the drumsynth parameters and load/save presets, please refer to secti...

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▪ in the top part of the panel you can adjust the tune parameter, select the desired engine, ad‐ just the velocity response, and adjust the decay parameter (or the filter parameter for the shaker engine of the percussion). ▪ in the bottom part of the panel you find the other parameters adjusting the...

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The kick panel in the plug‐in strip. As in every drumsynth, the engine can be selected via the engine selector on the main page. Each engine has a different character and set of parameters, as detailed in the following sec‐ tions. The kick provides following engines: ▪ sub (default): ↑8.2.1, kick – ...

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Element description bend adjusts the amplitude of the pitch envelope applied throughout the sound du‐ ration (punch), measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0 % (default: 6,8 %). At zero, the sound stays at its original pitch during its entire decaying phase. As the bend va...

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Element description decay adjusts the duration of the sound’s tail, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0 % (default: 50.0 %). Bend adjusts the amount of pitch envelope applied throughout the sound duration, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 10...

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Element description impact adjusts the amount of attack and click, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 % (soft attack) to 100.0 % (maximum attack). The de‐ fault value is 75.0 %. Character section filter adjusts the timbre of the drum, measured as a percentage. Available values...

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Element description grind adjusts the grittiness of the “aero” component of the sound, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0% (default: 45.0%). Low values produce a boomy reverberation. High values result in a crushed, digital “air” squashed into the drum sound. Note tha...

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Modulation page as with all other engines and drumsynths, the modulation page contains one parameter: velocity . Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is pl...

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8.2.7 kick – bold the bold kick is an acoustic bass drum emulation that provides an aggressive character and a punchy and dirty sound. It is capable of a range of sounds, from rock‐like kicks to more snappy and tight sub‐kicks. The parameters described below are presented as they appear in the contr...

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Element description skin tune adjusts the fine‐tuning of the skin of the drum, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0 % (default: 50.0 %). Impact adjusts how hard the drum is hit, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 % (softest) to 100.0 % (hardest). ...

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Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is played at full velocity, no matter how hard you hit the keys (or pads). From that mid position, by turning the knob...

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▪ iron : ↑8.3.8, snare – iron ▪ clap : ↑8.3.9, snare – clap for more information on engines, see ↑8.1.1, engines: many different drums per drumsynth . For general information on the snare and the other drumsynths, see ↑8.1, drumsynths – general han‐ dling . 8.3.1 snare – volt the volt engine is the ...

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8.3.2 snare – bit the bit snare is a thin, harsh, digital snare. The parameters described below are presented as they appear in the control area (arrange view). The same parameters are available in the plug‐in panel within the plug‐in strip (mix view). See ↑12.4, the plug‐in strip for more informati...

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Element description bend adjusts the pitch sweep of the sound, measured as a percentage. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default: 0.0 %). Focus adjusts the attack of the sound as well as the speed and shape of the pitch envelope, to produce a different quality of attack and sharpnes...

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Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is played at full velocity, no matter how hard you hit the keys (or pads). From that mid position, by turning the knob...

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Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is played at full velocity, no matter how hard you hit the keys (or pads). From that mid position, by turning the knob...

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Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is played at full velocity, no matter how hard you hit the keys (or pads). From that mid position, by turning the knob...

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Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is played at full velocity, no matter how hard you hit the keys (or pads). From that mid position, by turning the knob...

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8.3.9 snare – clap a stalwart of electronic music, the classic analog clap never really sounded like a group of people clapping ‐ but that makes it all the more iconic! The parameters described below are presented as they appear in the control area (arrange view). The same parameters are available i...

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Element description skin tune adjusts the fine‐tuning of the skin of the drum, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0% (default: 50.0%). Impact adjusts the amount of click or initial attack, measured as a percentage. Availa‐ ble values range from 0.0 to 100.0% (default: 7...

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The hi‐hat panel in the plug‐in strip. As in every drumsynth, the engine can be selected via the engine selector on the main page. Each engine has a different character and set of parameters, as detailed in the following sec‐ tions. The hi‐hat provides following engines: ▪ silver (default): ↑8.4.1, ...

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Element description color adjusts the center frequency of the filter applied to the sound, measured in hertz. Available values range from 932.3 hz to 16.7 khz (default: 7.4 khz). The default position gives a standard metallic analog hi‐hat. Colored down, the sound is much more melodic and in the mid...

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Element description color adjusts the center frequency of the filter applied to the sound, measured in hertz. Available values range from 932.3 hz to 16.7 khz (default: 7.4 khz). The default position gives a standard metallic analog hi‐hat. Colored down, the sound is much more melodic and in the mid...

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Element description gate when enabled, the decay of the cymbal is choked by the end of the note. When disabled (default), the cymbal plays as a one‐shot sound, i.E. Until the end of its tail, no matter when the note is released, although the sound dura‐ tion will still depend on the decay parameter ...

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Advanced page element description hybrid section bend adjusts the amount of a pitch envelope for sound design purposes. It is a bi‐ polar control ranging from ‐100.0 to 100.0% (default: 0.0%) rattle adjusts the amount of sizzling from the hi‐hat. It is more noticeable with long decays. Available val...

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The tom panel in the plug‐in strip. As in every drumsynth, the engine can be selected via the engine selector on the main page. Each engine has a different character and set of parameters, as detailed in the following sec‐ tions. The tom provides following engines: ▪ tronic (default): ↑8.5.1, tom – ...

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Element description harmonics section interval adjusts the interval between the two oscillators, measured in semitones and cents. Available values range from ‐0.50 to 13.50 (default: 6.50). At low values the oscillators are tuned close together, giving a detuned sound which can be used for basslines...

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Element description color adjusts a simple filter which affects the brightness of the sound. Available val‐ ues range from 0.0 to 100.0 % (default: 50.0 %). Glide the tuning of the fractal tom is locked for each note; in other words the change in tuning is applied only when a new note is received. W...

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The parameters described below are presented as they appear in the control area (arrange view). The same parameters are available in the plug‐in panel within the plug‐in strip (mix view). See ↑12.4, the plug‐in strip for more information on this. Main page element description main section engine sel...

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Element description tune adjusts the pitch of the drum played by the middle c, measured in midi note numbers and cents. Available values range from 57.00 ( note a2 ) to 71.00 ( note b3 ). The default value is 57.00. Decay adjusts the duration of the sound’s tail, measured as a percentage. Available ...

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The percussion provides following engines: ▪ fractal (default): ↑8.6.1, percussion – fractal . ▪ kettle : ↑8.6.2, percussion – kettle . ▪ shaker : ↑8.6.3, percussion – shaker . For more information on engines, see ↑8.1.1, engines: many different drums per drumsynth . For general information on the s...

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Element description freq b adjusts the pitch of oscillator b within the feedback oscillator bank, measured as a percentage. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0 % (default: 50.0 %). Note that this parameter has no effect when fm and am are set to zero (see below). Freq c adjusts the pitch of osc...

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Modulation page as with all other engines and drumsynths, the modulation page contains one parameter: velocity . Element description scale section velocity adjusts the velocity response of the drum. Available values range from ‐100.0 % to 100.0 % (default value). At zero (mid course), the drum is pl...

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Element description fill (performer mode only) the fill parameter is designed to be set to none by default and played man‐ ually during performance or automated in the sequencer. By default, the shak‐ er plays a pattern according to the rate parameter on the advanced page (see below). When the fill ...

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8.7 the cymbals the cymbal drumsynth can generate a variety of cymbal sounds. The crash engine selected for the cymbal in the control area (main page depicted). Using the drumsynths the cymbals maschine ‐ オペレーション マニュアル ‐ 367.

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Element description impact adjusts the amount of click or initial attack, measured as a percentage. Availa‐ ble values range from 0.0 to 100.0% (default: 70.0%). Width adjusts the perceived stereo image, measured as a percentage. At zero the sound is mono, at 100.0% the sound is a wide stereo image,...

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Element description edge adjusts the point where the cymbal is hit, measured as a percentage. Hitting the edge of the cymbal (100%) creates a more chaotic sound, hitting it near the center (0.0%) creates a more high‐pitched sound. Available values range from 0.0 to 100.0% (default: 50.0%) bell adjus...

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Managing the bass synth bass synth is a maschine plug‐in and, as such, supports all usual plug‐in actions and proce‐ dures. Hence, to know how to load, remove, replace, insert, move, copy/paste a bass synth, as well as how to adjust the bass synth parameters, and load/save presets, please refer to s...

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Main page element description osc section shape adjusts the waveform shape continuously from sine to square. To adjust the waveform shape, turn the shape knob by clicking and dragging upwards or downwards. The waveform shape can be viewed in the plug‐in strip of the mix view. Octave transposes the b...

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10 working with patterns creating a pattern is where the fun starts, because the sequencer really is the core of ma‐ schine. Both your controller and the software provide you with many powerful tools to create and edit your own beats. This chapter is organized as follows: ▪ general points on pattern...

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( 6 ) pattern manager button : opens/closes the pattern manager. The pattern manager gives you access to various management commands for your patterns. Notably, it allows you to select the pattern you want to edit in the pattern editor and use in the current scene of the arranger. It also provides v...

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1 2 3 the zooming scroll bar at the bottom of the pattern editor. Use the horizontal zooming scroll bar as follows: ▪ click the main part ( 1 ) of the scroll bar and hold the mouse button, then: ◦ drag your mouse horizontally to scroll through the event area on the time axis (common scroll bar behav...

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The follow function affects both the pattern editor and the arranger simultaneously (see section ↑15.1.2, following the playback position in your project for more information on the follow function in the arranger). Following the playback position on the controller to follow the playhead position in...

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For more information on the step grid, see section ↑10.1.7, adjusting the step grid and the nudge grid . ▪ if playback is on, the playhead jumps to the closest position near your mouse cursor that re‐ tains the current playhead position relative to the pattern grid division. This allows seamless jum...

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→ the event area now only shows notes for the selected sound. By adding or editing notes, you can choose their pitch in semitones depending on where you place them on the vertical axis, the lowest note being the lowest row. In keyboard view, the pattern editor shows all notes for a particular sound....

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Adjusting the pattern length you can adjust the length of your patterns to fit your needs. The pattern length is measured in bars and beats, and patterns can be up to 256 bars long. When you create a new empty pattern (see ↑10.7.3, creating patterns ), the pattern has the default length as defined i...

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Adjusting the grid using record prepare mode this extra method is very useful if you are about to start a new recording. Indeed, the record prepare mode (accessed by pressing the unlit rec button and holding it) is tightly integrated into the recording workflow of control mode. For all details pleas...

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▪ by default, the nudge grid resolution is half a step, meaning that events will be nudged by half a step at a time. ▪ if you set the nudge grid resolution to a full step, the nudge grid will mirror the step grid and you can nudge events with the same resolution as when creating or quantizing events...

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10.2 recording patterns in real time this section describes the various ways, features, and aids available on your controller to record patterns as you play them in real time: ▪ the most common method is called overdub recording. Alternatively you can use replace re‐ cording. Both are described in s...

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▪ when you stop the sequencer (by pressing the lit play button). ▪ when you jump to another location in the project (see section ↑10.1.4, jumping to another playback position in the pattern ). ▪ when you switch your controller to another mode (by pressing, e.G., scene , pattern , etc.). ▪ when you s...

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► click the metronome icon in the maschine header to enable/disable the metronome: the metronome can be heard only when the sequencer is playing! The metronome signal is sent to the cue bus. To know how to use the cue bus, see section ↑12.2.6, using the cue bus . You can customize the metronome in v...

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…and when the loop range doesn’t start at the beginning of a bar. You can also use the count‐in to start a recording in replace mode. Adjusting the count-in duration you can choose how long the metronome should be heard before the recording actually starts. In the software this is done via the count...

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The displays of your controller show the following: the step mode on the controller displays: the first bar of an eight‐bar pattern. The left display shows your entire pattern, and the right display focuses on the portion of the pattern corresponding to the steps controlled by your pads. The details...

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In step mode each pad of your controller represents one step of a 16‐step sequence for the fo‐ cused sound. The size of the steps depends on the current step grid settings. Lit pads indicate events on the corresponding steps. For more information on the step grid, see section ↑10.1.7, adjusting the ...

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► if button 5 ( follow ) is disabled, press button 7 and 8 to manually switch to the previous/ next 16 steps both on your pads and on the right display. Adjusting your pattern (left display) the left display of your controller allows you to adjust a few settings for your pattern. You can adjust the ...

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Editing tool description knob 3 ( velocity ) adjusts the velocity of the selected events. If the events have different velocities, the velocities differences are retained as long as the limits (0 and 127) are not reached. When only one event is selected, its velocity is shown under velocity . If sev...

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1. Press and hold the pad representing the step you want to modulate (you may need to use button 7 and 8 to navigate beforehand to the desired part of the pattern). The displays will switch to a mode similar to control mode displaying parameter values. 2. Like in control mode, use button 2 or 3 to s...

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Action function creating notes (see ↑10.4.2, creating events/notes for details) double‐click in event area’s background creates note deleting notes (see ↑10.4.5, deleting events/notes for details) double‐click note delete selected notes right‐click (macos: [ctrl]‐click) delete selected notes selecti...

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10.4.2 creating events/notes in the software you can create new events anywhere in the event area using your mouse. The procedure depends on the active mouse edit mode (select, paint or erase). Each event is created at the beginning of the step in which your mouse cursor is located, accord‐ ing to t...

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Quick selecting events and notes the quickest and easiest way to select events is the following: ► press shift + select + any dimmed pad to select all events for that sound (if pads are in group mode) or to select all notes at that pitch for the focused sound (if pads are in key‐ board mode). → the ...

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Select mode: selecting notes (pads in keyboard mode) in keyboard mode, each pad represents a specific pitch of the focused sound. Selecting events on the controller with the pads in keyboard mode. You have following selection tools at your disposal: selection tool description pads unlit pads indicat...

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Quantization when editing a single event/note by default, all dragging actions on the time axis are quantized according to the step grid: ▪ when you drag a note (or its duplicate) horizontally, its original offset with the step grid is preserved, unless you drag the note near a grid line — in that c...

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Editing tool description knob 7 ( pitch ) transposes the selected events by semitones. If only one event is selected, its pitch is shown under pitch . If several events are selected, the field shows (multi) . See also the alternate method described below. Knob 8 ( velocity ) adjusts the velocity of ...

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► press select + erase + the desired pads to delete from the pattern all events for these pads. As soon as you hold select + erase , some pads light up to indicate where there is something to delete: ▪ if your pads are in group mode, the lit pads show you the sounds for which the pattern con‐ tains ...

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1. To cut or copy the selected events, press [ctrl] + [x] or [ctrl] + [c] ([cmd] + [x] or [cmd] + [c] on macos), respectively. You can also right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on macos) in the back‐ ground of the event area and select cut or copy from the context menu. The selected events are placed in the cl...

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3. To paste them, press shift + pad 12 ( paste ). → the events will be pasted according to the same rules as when using the keyboard short‐ cuts in the software (see above). If no event is selected, all displayed events will be affect‐ ed: in keyboard view these are all events of the focused sound; ...

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1. Select the events you wish to quantize. If nothing is selected, the whole pattern content will be quantized. See ↑10.4.3, selecting events/notes to know how to select events. 2. To apply full quantization to the selected events, press shift + pad 5 ( quantize ). 3. To apply only a bit of quantiza...

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When adding variation to your patterns, please be aware random mode conforms to the selected scale. To access variation mode: 1. Select the group ( a – h ) containing the sound to which you want to apply the variation. 2. Press select + sound ( 1 – 16 ). 3. Press shift + pattern to access the variat...

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Element description note length steps set the length of a note in steps. The value ranges from 1 to 6 steps per note. Press shift to change in finer in‐ crements. Time shift step set the amount of time shift per step. The value is applied to all notes and will move them randomly in both plus and min...

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Please note that modulation and automation are not mutually exclusive: you can modulate a pa‐ rameter in maschine and automate it (e.G., from your host) simultaneously! As a result, the pa‐ rameter value will deviate (according to the recorded modulation) from its moving value defined by the automat...

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▪ a modulation track is created for this parameter in the modulation pane of the control area (at the bottom of the pattern editor) containing the modulation points you have just record‐ ed. You can further edit the modulation track from there — see section ↑10.5.3, creating and editing modulation i...

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4. Click the little bar icon left of the control lane to display the modulation pane. → the modulation pane appears. The modulation pane showing the modulation track for the decay parameter (see on the left). The modulation pane contains following elements: ▪ the left part shows the modulator list s...

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Mouse edit mode available mouse actions ( 1 ) select mode to create modulation points, double‐click in the control lane — other points on this step will be replaced. To delete a modulation point, right‐click it ([ctrl]‐click it on macos). To edit an existing modulation point, drag it vertically (you...

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→ all modulation points are deleted in all patterns of the group and you can start designing a new modulation for that parameter from scratch. Re-assigning a modulation track ► to change the parameter assignment of a modulation track, right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on ma‐ cos) the desired entry in the mo...

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6. Add and modify events in the new midi track via same editing tools as for modulation tracks (see ↑10.5.3, creating and editing modulation in the control lane ). → you have just created a new midi track! You will notice that one midi track is always present in the midi pane: the velocity track. Th...

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Closing the pattern manager ► to close the pattern manager, click anywhere outside it. The pattern mode on your controller the pattern mode is where you select and manage your patterns. ► to enter pattern mode on your controller, press and hold pattern (you can pin it by pressing button 1 at the sam...

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If you want to select a pattern already referenced by one or more clips in the arranger, you can click any of these clips to select and load the referenced pattern in the pattern editor. This way your arrangement won’t be modified. Selecting patterns and pattern banks on the controller to select a p...

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→ a new empty pattern is created in the selected pattern slot. The new pattern is loaded in the pattern editor with an empty event area. Furthermore, this pattern is referenced by a clip for the selected group in the current scene in the arranger. This clip replaces any pre‐ vious clip for the group...

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→ the pattern is deleted. Alternate method 1. Press and hold pattern to enter pattern mode. 2. Press button 7 and 8 to select the desired pattern bank. 3. Press erase + the pad corresponding to the pattern you want to delete. → the pattern is deleted. If the desired pattern bank is already selected ...

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→ a new empty pattern bank is created and its content appears on the right display. If the last pattern bank is empty, there is no “ + ” symbol under button 8 and you cannot create any new pattern bank. Deleting a pattern bank on your controller to delete a pattern bank: 1. Press and hold pattern to...

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If you use maschine as a plug‐in, some hosts will utilize the [enter] key, as it is mapped to some function of the host software. In this case, click anywhere else in the maschine plug‐in window to confirm the name you have entered. Renaming patterns in the arranger you can also rename a pattern in ...

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2. If necessary, select the pattern bank containing the desired pattern by clicking its pad grid on the right. The selected pattern bank is surrounded by a white border and its patterns appear in the list on the left. 3. Right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on macos) the pattern slot or the corresponding cell ...

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→ the pattern is copied to the target pad. The target pad starts flashing and you can further copy/paste it to other slots! This procedure has following benefits: ▪ you can paste the copy into the pattern slot of your choice — empty or not. If the target pat‐ tern slot already contains a pattern, it...

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→ the pattern length can now be adjusted in finer increments according to the value of the step grid. 10.8 importing/exporting audio and midi to/from patterns in the pattern editor you can quickly export midi and audio from patterns and import midi to patterns via drag and drop. 10.8.1 exporting aud...

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You can export midi files using two methods: via drag‐and‐drop or via the group/sound context menu. Exporting midi via drag-and-drop you can render the selected pattern to a midi file by simply dragging it onto the target location on your operating system or directly into a midi channel of your host...

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10.8.3 importing midi to patterns you can import midi files (extension “.Mid”) to patterns. This allows you to use in maschine midi files prepared with another application. This function is only available in the software. Importing midi data into a pattern that already contains data (note, modulatio...

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4. Drag the midi file onto the desired group in the group list left of the arranger. → the midi file will be imported to the selected pattern of the group according to the import rules described below. If the pattern editor is in group view, you can also drag the midi file directly onto the event ar...

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3. Right‐click ([ctrl]‐click on macos) the desired sound in the sound list and select import midi… from the context menu. 4. In the import midi dialog that opens, navigate to the desired midi file on your computer and click open to confirm. → the midi file will be imported to the selected pattern fo...

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4. Open the files pane of the browser and navigate to the desired midi file (see section ↑3.6, loading and importing files from your file system to know how to use the files pane). 5. Double‐click the midi file or click it and press [enter] on your computer keyboard. → the midi file will be imported...

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2. Drag and drop the multiple selection onto the desired sound in the sound list. → new patterns will be created for that sound in the group, each new pattern receiving the data from one of the midi files. Only this sound will contain notes in these new patterns. Apart from this, each midi file will...

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▪ at the bottom level, each sound has its own channel. The output of the sound’s channel is sent to its parent group. ▪ at the mid‐level, each group has its own channel, which sums all channels of the included sounds. The output of the group’s channel is sent to the master. ▪ at the top level, the m...

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The audio page of the input properties for a sound on the controller. Please refer to section ↑2.3.6, navigating channel properties, plug‐ins, and parameter pages in the control area to know how to access the audio page of the input properties in the software and from your controller. Controls descr...

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5. At the top of the channel strip of the sound you want to configure, click the first field under the sound name and select the desired external input in the menu. This is equivalent to setting the source parameter described above. 6. Turn the little knob on its left to adjust the input gain. This ...

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Controls description audio section dest. Selects where you want to send the main audio output of your channel. For sounds, available options are none (no output), master , group (parent group, default setting), any other group or any other sound acting as bussing point (i.E. Containing an effect plu...

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The pair of knobs for each sound/group allows you to quickly adjust the channel level and panoramic position. For sound slots, the knobs are visible only when the pattern editor is in group mode. In keyboard mode, the knobs are not visible. Configuring the main outputs of sounds and groups in mix vi...

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4. To select another destination for the channel’s output, click the first area under the level meter, and select the desired destination in the menu. This is equivalent to setting the dest. Parameter described above. 11.1.3 setting up auxiliary outputs for sounds and groups each sound or group of y...

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If maschine is running as a plug‐in, the external stereo outputs ext. 1 – 16 available in the dest. Selectors of the aux 1 and aux 2 section will correspond to virtual outputs in your host. This al‐ lows you to send auxiliary outputs of individual sounds or groups from maschine to their own mixer ch...

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11.1.4 configuring the master and cue outputs of maschine all channels routed to the master are mixed together and processed by the plug‐ins loaded in the master, if any. The result is then sent to the master output (that is, maschine’s main out‐ put). Besides, all channels currently routed to the c...

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2. Open the extended view of the mixer by clicking the down‐pointing arrow on the left of the mixer: 3. Click the background of the last header in the top right corner of the mixer. The master/cue channel strip appears underneath. In this master/cue channel strip, do the following to configure the o...

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1. Click the headphone icon in the strip’s header to show the controls for the cue channel. 2. To adjust the level and panoramic position of the cue output, use the channel’s fader and balance control (above the fader), respectively. This is equivalent to setting the level or pan parameters in the c...

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Configuring external inputs for sounds in mix view you can also easily send stereo or mono external audio to sounds in maschine’s mixer: 1. Click the mix view button on the left of the arranger to switch from arrange view to mix view: 2. Open the extended view of the mixer by clicking the down‐point...

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▪ the mixer displays the channel strips of all sounds in the selected group. Audio routing, remote control, and macro controls audio routing in maschine maschine ‐ オペレーション マニュアル ‐ 501.

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Configuring external inputs for sounds in maschine all input channels, including individual mono l and r channels can be found at the bottom of the input selection drop‐down menus. The metering of mono inputs is shown as dual‐mono. To configure an external input for a sound: 1. Select the group and ...

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▪ midi input settings for a sound affect only that sound: incoming midi notes will trigger dif‐ ferent notes of this sound. Typically, this allows you to control a melodic instrument via midi. More precisely, the incoming midi notes will be routed to the first plug‐in slot of the sound. If the sound...

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Controls description source (stand‐alone and in manual mode only) select the midi port on which the sound or group will receive midi notes. Available entries are none (midi note input disabled, default setting), all (midi notes are received on all enabled input ports), and each enabled midi input po...

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This is equivalent to setting the source parameter described above. If maschine is running as a plug‐in you see a midi in button instead. Click it to enable the midi input from the host. This is equivalent to enabling the active button described above. 5. Click the little field on its left to select...

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▪ this opens the following dialog: ▪ click scene enabled from the dialog. 4. In the submenu that opens, select the source you want to use for changing the midi pro‐ gram change messages. A list of connected controller names appear in the drop‐down menu, or you can select none to disable the feature....

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This section describes how to use automation in maschine — for more information on using modulation, please refer to section ↑10.5, recording and editing modulation . Please note that modulation and automation are not mutually exclusive: you can modulate a pa‐ rameter in maschine and automate it (e....

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A few host automation assignments for the current parameter page. The following paragraphs describe in more details how to assign midi controls and host automa‐ tion ids to maschine parameters. Which maschine parameters are automatable? All the automatable parameters are found in plug‐ins or channel...

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3. Click the enable label in the assignment field under any unassigned parameter to automati‐ cally assign that parameter to the next free automation id. → the assignment field displays the automation id for that parameter. The parameter is ready to be controlled from your host. Removing an automati...

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For the learn mode and the resulting midi control to work, midi must be correctly configured in maschine. If maschine is running as stand‐alone application this is done in the midi page of the preferences panel — for more details please refer to section ↑2.6.3, preferences – midi page . If maschine ...

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The midi output of sounds is configured on the midi page of the output properties for sounds. The midi page of the output properties is available for sounds only. Maschine 1.X owners: the midi page of the sound output properties replaces and extends the features of the midi out module available in p...

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2. Open the extended view of the mixer by clicking the down‐pointing arrow on the left of the mixer: 3. Check that the io button is active on the left of the mixer — if not, click it to enable it and display the input/output settings of each channel strip. 4. If the mixer currently displays the grou...

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11.3 creating custom sets of parameters with the macro controls macro controls enable you to control in one same location a selection of parameters coming from different sources. Available in every channel (sounds, groups, and master), macro controls are very useful for playing live since you can ch...

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