Controlling your mix, Navigating your channels in mix mode – Native Instruments MASCHINE+ Standalone Production and Performance Instrument User Manual

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14. Controlling Your Mix

The Mix view provides quick access to the level and routing settings of all your Sounds, Groups,

and the Master channels. The mix levels are visualized on the displays as well as an overview of

the plug-ins assigned to each channel. Eight channels from each Group are displayed at any one

time, and it's easy to navigate to the other Sounds or Groups using the Page buttons and Group

buttons.

Mix view is great for controlling your mix while producing, but even better when performing, as the

Mute and Solo functions allow you to really perform a mix on the fly.

14.1. Navigating Your Channels in Mix Mode

Mix mode enables you to display channel strips at the

Group level

(i.e. all your Groups) or at the

Sound level

(i.e. all Sound slots of the Group currently focused).

At both levels, channels are organized into groups of eight channels (four on each display).

▶

Use the Page buttons at the left of the displays to show the next/previous eight channels

(Sounds:

–

and

–

; Groups:

–

, etc.).

Setting the Focus on a Channel (Sound or Group)

▶

To put the focus on any of the displayed channels (Sounds or Groups), press the Button 1–8

above the desired strip in the displays.

→

The focused channel is highlighted.

Alternatively, you can focus Groups and Sounds by pressing the Group buttons and the pads as in

Control mode. If you set the focus to a Sound or Group not visible on the displays, these

automatically switch to the relevant set of eight channels: for example if you are viewing Sound

channels

–

and press pad

, the displays automatically jump to Sound channels

–

in order

to show the Sound slot

you just selected.

The focus is strictly equivalent in Mix mode and in Control mode: The Sound or Group

focused in Mix mode will also be focused in Control mode, and inversely.

Mix Mode – Displaying the Group Level

▶

To display Group channels, push the 4-D encoder upwards.

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