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Loading groups on your controller – Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) User Manual

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You have many methods at your disposal to load a Group whether you are in Ideas view or Song

view:

Drag and drop: Select the desired Group in the Browser or Group file in your operating sys-

tem and drag it onto the Group List:

Drag it onto an existing Group to replace this Group in the Group List.

Drag it between two Groups to insert it between both.

Drag onto the “

+

” at the end of the Group List to append it to the existing Groups.

Double-click: Double-click the Group in the Browser or the Group file in your operating sys-

tem to replace the focused Group in the Group List.

Context menu: Right-click ([Ctrl]-click on macOS) the desired Group in the Group List or the
Group name in the top left corner of the Pattern Editor and select

Open…

in the context

menu. In the Load Group dialog that opens, navigate to the desired Group file on your com-
puter and click

Open

to load it. The loaded Group will replace the current Group in the

Group List.

You can also recall the search query that was used to find the Group currently loaded in the focused

Group slot. See section

4.8, Using Quick Browse

for more information.

In your operating system, Group files have the extension “.mxgrp” (MASCHINE 2) or “.mgrp” (MA-

SCHINE 1.x).

To learn more about the Browser, refer to

4, Browser

.

Loading Groups on Your Controller

On your controller, use the Browser to load Groups:

You can browse your MASCHINE Library for the desired Group. For more information on
how to do this, please refer to section

4.2, Searching and Loading Files from the Library

.

Alternatively you can recall the search query that was used to find the Group currently
loaded in the focused Sound slot. See section

4.8, Using Quick Browse

for more informa-

tion.

Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project

Managing Groups

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