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8 Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
This chapter describes a few important topics and features of MASCHINE’s routing and assign-
ment system. Understanding these will be of great help in numerous MASCHINE workflows:
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We will explain how MASCHINE’s audio routing works and how to take advantage of its
flexibility:
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8.1, Audio Routing in MASCHINE .
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We will describe how to route MIDI signals to and from your Sounds and Groups, and how
to control MASCHINE parameters via MIDI and host automation:
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8.2, Using MIDI Control
and Host Automation .
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We will show how to use the powerful Macro Controls to greatly improve your live experi-
ence by putting the desired parameters at your fingertips:
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8.3, Creating Custom Sets of
Parameters with the Macro Controls .
The Channel Properties
Most of the features described here can be accessed via the Channel properties. Channel prop-
erties are global settings that apply to a particular Sound, Group, or to the Master independ-
ently of which Plug-ins are loaded in its Plug-in slots.
Channel properties are organized into four sets. Similar sets of properties are available for all
channels (Sounds, Groups, and Master): Input properties (unavailable for the Master), Output
properties, Groove properties, and Macro properties.
You can access Channel properties and their parameters via the same procedure as for Plug-
ins, both in the software and from your controller. Please refer to section
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2.3.8, Navigating
Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pages in the Control Area for a detailed descrip-
tion.
The Input properties, Output properties, and Macro properties are covered in the following sec-
tions. For more information on the Groove properties, please refer to section
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5.4.3, Groove .
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