8 Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro ControlsThis 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:▪ We will explain how MASCHINE’s audio routing works and how to take advantage of itsflexibility: ↑8.1, Audio Routing in MASCHINE.▪ We will describe how to route MIDI signals to and from your Sounds and Groups, and howto control MASCHINE parameters via MIDI and host automation: ↑8.2, Using MIDI Controland Host Automation.▪ 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: ↑8.3, Creating Custom Sets ofParameters with the Macro Controls.The Channel PropertiesMost 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 allchannels (Sounds, Groups, and Master): Input properties (unavailable for the Master), Outputproperties, 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 ↑2.3.3, NavigatingChannel 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 ↑5.4.4, Groove.Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro ControlsMASCHINE MIKRO - Manual - 396
