Selecting A Scale And Creating Chords - Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Manual

Hide thumbs Also See for MASCHINE MK3:

Table of Contents

Selecting a Scale and Creating Chords

MASCHINE comes equipped with a vast amount of scales and chords that you can select and

use to play your Sounds. This opens up possibilities to play an instrument such as a piano ac-

cording to, e.g., the minor pentatonic scale without hitting a "false" pad (note) on your control-

ler, or to play chords that always fit by hitting single pads.

The Scale and Chord engine is available only when your pads are in Keyboard mode.

This section provides a hands-on introduction to the use of scales and chords from your con-

troller. The corresponding parameters will be described in detail in section

Scale and Chord Parameters

This section describes the Scale and Chord engine and its parameters, and provides a list of all

scales and chords available on your controller.

General Notes on Scales and Chords

▪ The Scale and Chord parameters are the same for all Sound slots in a particular Group, you

can have different Scale and Chord parameters for each Group. The Scale and Chord pa-

rameters of each Group are saved with the Project. However, when you save a Group the

Scale and Chord parameters are not saved with the Group.

▪ The Scale and Chord engine processes live input from the pads of your controller only. In-

put from third-party MIDI controllers and data recorded in the Pattern Editor are not proc-

essed by the Scale and Chord engine.

KOMPLETE KONTROL S-SERIES owners: Input from your KOMPLETE KONTROL S-

SERIES keyboard can also be processed by the Scale and Chord engine. This is descri-

bed in section Using the Perform Features.

▪ The output of the Scale and Chord engine is recorded into the Pattern Editor.

▪ The Scale and Chord parameters cannot be modulated nor automated in MASCHINE.

Playing on the Controller

Performance Features

↑5.5.3, Scale and

MASCHINE - Manual - 256

Show Quick Links

Table of Contents