Mute and solo, 1, mute, And solo – Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) User Manual

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Hardware Shortcuts give you a quick access to the most important parameters of each chan-

nel (Sound, Group, and Master):

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6.3.4, Level, Tempo, Tune, and Groove Shortcuts on

Your Controller

6.3.1

Mute and Solo

Muting is used to silence a Sound or a Group, whereas Solo is pretty much the opposite: Solo-
ing a Sound or a Group mutes all other Sounds in that Group or all other Groups, respectively,

so that you can listen to the selected Sound or Group alone. The combination of both is a use-

ful means to play live and to test different sequences together.
When used on Sounds, the Solo only applies to the current Group: The Sounds in other Groups
won’t be affected.

We describe here how to mute/solo Groups and Sounds in the Arrange view of the software, but you
can also do this from Mix view via the

Mute

button available in each channel strip of the Mixer! See

section

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13.2.5, Adjusting Settings in the Channel Strips

for more information.

Audio Mute vs. Event Mute

At the Group level, the Mute function is an audio mute: The whole audio output of the muted
Group will be bypassed. At the Sound level, the Mute function is by default a trigger mute: the
Pattern content (the events) for the muted Sound will not be triggered — but any audio re-
maining from past events for this Sound will still be audible until it fades away. You can
change this behavior by enabling the

Audio Mute

button in the

Audio

page of the Sound’s Out-

put properties (see section

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12.1.2, Configuring the Main Output of Sounds and Groups

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well as in Solo and Mute mode on your controller: Activating the audio mute for Sounds will

ensure that not only the events are muted, but any remaining audio as well.

To momentarily mute all audio from all Sounds and Groups at once, please refer to section

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