Name And Color Your Groups, Patterns, Sounds And Scenes - Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Manual

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Name and Color Your Groups, Patterns, Sounds and Scenes

Consider Using a Limiter on Your Master

This sounds rather conservative, but if you want to avoid digital distortion caused by an over-

load of your audio interface, this is a useful safety measure. However, you might experience a

somewhat squashed and dull sound if you overuse the Limiter by feeding a lot of loud signals

to it. Try it out and see what works best for you! See

Hook Up Your Other Gear and Sync It with MIDI Clock

It is nice if a live set is working out exactly the way you planned it, but sometimes, this can get

boring for you as well as for the audience. Something unexpected or even plain mistakes can

be the key for inspiring tracks and performances as well as just jamming around with your

Sounds and Samples!

Basic Techniques

Use Mute and Solo

Mute and Solo are a good way to build up a live set especially on the MASCHINE controller as

you can mute and solo Groups and Sounds at the same time.

By pinning the Mute and Solo mode (press Button 1 simultaneously for this), you have both

hands free to mute or solo Sounds and Groups. Since soloing a Sound mutes all Sounds except

button can then be used to "release" Sounds that have been muted. You can

use this technique to create a breakdown: Solo a given Sound such as a kick drum, then build

the track up again by bringing the muted Sounds back in one at a time with the

↑17.2.4, Use Note Repeat

↑14.1.4, Limiter

for more on this.

Appendix: Tips for Playing Live

for more information.

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