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Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) User Manual

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Click tags to filter files based on the selected type and character tags. Click the selected

tags again to deselect them and broaden the search.

Tags for Projects, Groups and Sounds: 3 Type Levels

For Projects, Groups and Sounds tags are structured into three hierarchical levels globally
called Types. You can select them via the

TYPES

filter:

At first the

TYPES

filter displays the available top-level tags only.

As soon as you select a tag at the top level, the second level appears underneath with sub-
tags of the selected tag.

The hierarchical structure means that the sets of sub-tags are specific to each tag of the
level above.

Example: Imagine that you are looking for a bass synth

You have already selected the

Maschine

product in the Product selector, and the

Maschine

2.0 Library

bank of this product (for more information on this, see section

4.2.3, Select-

ing a Product Category, a Product, a Bank, and a Sub-Bank

). For now the

TYPES

filter

shows only top-level tags.

In order to find a bass, you first select the

Instruments

Type from the

TYPES

filter.

In the second level, you select the

Bass

Sub-Type.

Now the third level appears with Sub-Types like

Acoustic

,

Electric

, etc.

By selecting any of these tags, say,

Electric

, you will narrow your search to this particular

Sub-Type of basses.

This allows you to quickly find various Samples (even for different instruments) with similar
characteristics — here, an acoustic sound.

Tags for Instrument, Effect, and Sample Presets: 2 Type Levels and 1 Character Level

For Instrument, Effect and Sample presets, tags can be of two kinds: Type or Character. You
can select them via the

TYPES

and

CHARACTERS

filter, respectively:

The

TYPES

filter works as described above for all other file types, except that only two hier-

archical levels are available. See above for a detailed description.

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