Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) User Manual
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Above the arrangement overview, you see the name of the Project, the focused Group
or the focused Sound (depending on which of the
MASTER
,
GROUP
or
SOUND
tab is
selected in the software’s Control area) along with the current tempo and playback po-
sition.
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The right display provides a detailed view of a portion of your Pattern:
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The name of the selected Pattern is indicated at the top of the display (6).
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The velocity of each event/note is indicated by its transparency. If visible, selected
events/notes are highlighted.
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With the pads in Pad Mode, the display shows events for all Sounds in the Group. The
16 Sound slots of the Group are represented in the leftmost column by their index
number (5). The focused Sound is highlighted.
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With the pads in Keyboard mode, the display shows notes on two octaves for the fo-
cused Sound. On the left a piano roll (4) indicates the pitch of the various events. On
the piano roll, each C is indicated by its octave number and the middle C (C3 in the
MASCHINE convention) is colored. Additionally the pitch of any played note is high-
lighted. Turn Knob 7 to scroll on the pitch axis (vertical axis) from events at the lowest
pitch until events at the highest pitch. If all events are within two octaves, they all ap-
pear in the display and Knob 7 is inactive.
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Horizontally, the displayed time interval is variable: Turn Knob 5 and 6 to zoom and
scroll horizontally in the right display to your liking, respectively.
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As in the left display, you can see a timeline (7) at the top and a vertical playhead
indicator (8) across the entire display.
In Pattern Arrange mode the pads behave as in Control mode. In particular, this allows you to record
Patterns while seeing them developing in the displays! See section
for more information on this.
Finally, the Pattern Arrange mode provides useful commands for the selected Pattern:
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Turn Knob 4 (
LENGTH
) to adjust the Pattern Length (see section
Arrange Grid and the Pattern Length
).
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Press Button 3 (
DOUBLE
) to double the Pattern (see section
).
Working with Patterns
Pattern Basics
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