Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) - Manual (Page 249)

Creating Groups on Your Controller
On your controller, existing Groups are indicated by the lit Group buttons A – H :
▪ The focused Group is indicated by the fully lit Group button.
▪ The other Groups of your Project are indicated by half-lit Group buttons, each Group button
showing the color of the corresponding Group.
▪ In the last Group bank the last half-lit Group button is white: It doesn’t correspond to any
existing Group, but instead allows you to create another Group in your Project.
To create a new Group:
1.
Hold SHIFT and press the last lit Group button to select the last Group bank.
2. Release SHIFT .
3. Press the dimmed white Group button after all other lit Group buttons.
→ A new empty Group is created after the existing Groups with the default name and color.
If the last Group bank already contains eight Groups, pressing SHIFT + the last lit Group button at
the first step will directly create a new empty Group in a new Group bank!
Automatic Group Bank Management
In MASCHINE Group banks are managed automatically, so that you don’t have to create or de-
lete them manually. Group are always adjacent in the Group List: you cannot have any gap in
the Group List — nor in any Group bank. When you create a new Group, the following happens:
▪ As long as the last Group bank contains less than eight Groups, the new Group is created
in that bank.
▪ If the last bank already contains eight Groups, a new Group bank is automatically created
after the existing bank(s) and the new Group is created in that new bank.
5.3.2 Loading Groups
You can load a readymade Group from the Browser or from your operating system. The Group
can be included in the MASCHINE Library or any EXPANSION PACK but it can also be a
Group you have created yourself and saved for later use.
Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
Managing Groups
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