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Internal Effects: These are the Effect Plug-ins included with MASCHINE. To read every

details about each of the MASCHINE internal effects, and how to use them, please
refer to chapter

12, Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls

and

15,

Effect Reference

.

Native Instruments: You can use all Native Instruments KOMPLETE effects installed on
your computer as VST/AU plug-ins. Products from Native Instruments are tightly inte-
grated in MASCHINE.

External: You can also use VST/AU effect plug-ins from any third-party manufacturers.

What to Load, and Where

The type of Plug-in that you can load depends on the selected level (Sound, Group or Master)
and slot:

Effect Plug-ins (both internal and external) can be loaded in all Plug-in slots at all levels
(Sound, Group, Master).

Instrument Plug-ins (both internal and external) can only be loaded in the first Plug-in slot
of Sounds.

7.1.2

First Plug-in Slot of Sounds: Choosing the Sound’s Role

The Plug-in loaded in the first Plug-in slot of a Sound will determine the general role of this

Sound:

If the first Plug-in slot holds an Instrument Plug-in (Sampler, Drumsynth, Native Instru-
ments or External Instrument, see above), the Sound will generate its own audio.

If the first Plug-in slot holds an Effect Plug-in (Internal, Native Instruments or External), the
Sound will be available as bussing point for other signals (from within MASCHINE, and

possibly from the outside world). This notably allows you to build up send effects or to ap-
ply effects to external audio. See section

14.3.1, Step 1: Set Up a Sound or Group as

Send Effect

for more information.

You can also sample directly to a Sound slot. This will automatically load a Sampler in its first Plug-

in slot. Read chapter

15, Effect Reference

for more details on this.

Working with Plug-ins

Plug-in Overview

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