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Names and Concepts You Should Know

Sounds are the building blocks of all sound content in MASCHINE. A Sound is made up of any

number of Plug-ins. Each Sound of the selected Group is mapped to one of the 16 pads on the

hardware controller, so you can play the Sounds by pressing the pads. Refer to chapter

Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project

for more information on Sounds.

A Group contains 16 Sound slots. In addition to the Effect Plug-ins applied to each individual

Sound, a Group can have its own insert effect. These affect all the Sounds in the Group. A

Group can also contain any number of Patterns (grouped into banks of 16 Patterns each). Re-

fer to chapter

↑4, Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project

for more information on Groups.

This is where all audio signals from each of the Groups and Sounds come together and get

mixed. The Master channel can also host any number of insert effects of its own, these effects

are applied to all Groups and the Sounds within them. More information on the Master can be

found in chapter

↑4, Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your

A Pattern is a sequence that plays Sounds from a Group. It belongs to that Group and will be

saved together with the Group. In every Scene you can choose for each Group which of its Pat-

terns has to be played. More information on Patterns can be found in chapter

↑7, Working with

A Scene is a combination of Clips for your different Groups. Each Clip references a specific

Pattern of a Group. In a Scene you can create one Clip for each Group. Scenes are located in

the Arranger. They can be used to build up a finished arrangement or to trigger different parts

of a song during a live performance. Refer to chapter

↑13, Creating a Song Using Scenes

more information on Scenes.

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