The Control area showing some Sampler Plug-in parameters for our kick drum Sound.
To the left of the Control area, you can load an Internal, Native Instruments or External Plug-in
into the Plug-in List. The Plug-in List allows you to load as many Plug-ins into its slots as you
want. The processing order is from top to bottom (from the first Plug-in to the last).
Here is an example:
▪ In each Sound of the Group “EK-TL A Kit,” the first slot of the Plug-in List is the Sampler
— the MASCHINE internal sampler. The Sampler is the sound source of each of these
Sounds.
In MASCHINE, Plug-in slots are available at three different levels of your Project:
▪ Sound level: The first Plug-in slot is the only slot that can contain a sound source (e.g., a
(Sampler, Drumsynth, Native Instruments or External Instrument) or an effect. The other
Plug-in slots can only contain effects (Internal, Native Instruments or External).
▪ Group level: Each Group also offers slots for effects that will process all Sounds of that
Group together.
▪ Master level: There are additional slots for effects that will process the overall audio of your
Project before it is sent to the master output.
Loading a Drumsynth into a Plug-in List
We would like to further customize our drum kit by fattening its low frequency content with
another kick drum. For this, we will use one of the Internal Plug-ins included with MASCHINE:
Drumsynth.
In MASCHINE, there are two different ways to load Plug-ins into the Plug-in List:
▪ Using the Browser: We have already used the Browser to load Projects, Groups, Samples,
and Plug-ins. Similarly, you can use it to search for plug-in effects.
Building Your Own Drum Kit
Customizing Your Drum Kit
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