Composing The First Scene - Native Instruments MASCHINE STUDIO Getting Started

The Arranger is where you organize your Scenes in order to build up a song. Here, only the first Scene slot is used.
This is how Scenes work:
▪ Only one Scene is played at a time.
▪ In each Scene, you can choose to play one particular Pattern of each Group. For example,
in the picture above, in Scene 1 we play the Pattern 3 of the Group "EK-TL A Kit" (our
drum kit) together with the Pattern 2 of the Group "Bass" (our bass lines).
▪ In addition, a Pattern can be played in several Scenes: In fact a Scene only contains a
reference to your Pattern, and you can place as many references to this Pattern as you want
in different Scenes in the Arranger. When you modify your Pattern in the Pattern Editor, all
references to it in the Arranger will get updated accordingly. These references are called
Clips. In the Arranger, you create, delete, and edit Clips — that is, references to your Pat-
terns.
As a notable consequence, whatever you do in the Arranger, your Patterns stay un-
touched.
8.1.1

Composing the First Scene

First of all, you might wonder why we already have two Clips in Scene 1 even though we ha-
ven't used the Arranger since the very first tutorial (except for selecting Groups on the left).
This is due to the way Clips are placed in the Arranger: Indeed, as soon as you select a Pattern
slot in the Pattern Editor (for playing, editing, etc.), a Clip referencing this Pattern is created in
the selected Scene. Since you selected quite a few Pattern slots in both Groups while following
the previous tutorials, Scene 1 already contains a Clip for each existing Group in the Arranger!
Creating a Song Using Scenes
Creating Clips in the Arranger
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