Playing Tools; Mute And Solo - Native Instruments MASCHINE MIKRO MK3 Manual

6.3

Playing Tools

On top of the various pad settings described in the previous section (see
Pads), MASCHINE also offers you a series of intuitive playing tools particularly useful when
playing live:
▪ Mute and Solo allow you to selectively mute and solo Sounds and Groups:
and Solo.
▪ Choke All Notes allow you to cut all playing audio:
▪ Groove allows you to give a shuffling flair to individual Sounds/Groups or to your entire
±6.3.3,
Project: Groove.
▪ Hardware Shortcuts give you a quick access to the most important parameters of each chan-
nel (Sound, Group, and Master):
Your Controller.
6.3.1

Mute and Solo

Muting is used to silence a Sound or a Group, whereas Solo is pretty much the opposite: Solo-
ing a Sound or a Group mutes all other Sounds in that Group or all other Groups, respectively,
so that you can listen to the selected Sound or Group alone. The combination of both is a use-
ful means to play live and to test different sequences together.
When used on Sounds, the Solo only applies to the current Group: The Sounds in other Groups
won9t be affected.
We describe here how to mute/solo Groups and Sounds in the Arrange view of the software, but you
can also do this from Mix view via the
section ±13.2.5, Adjusting Settings in the Channel Strips
Audio Mute vs. Event Mute
At the Group level, the Mute function is an audio mute: The whole audio output of the muted
Group will be bypassed. At the Sound level, the Mute function is by default a trigger mute: the
Pattern content (the events) for the muted Sound will not be triggered 4 but any audio re-
maining from past events for this Sound will still be audible until it fades away. You can
±6.3.2, Choke All
±6.3.4, Level, Tempo, Tune, and Groove Shortcuts on
Mute button available in each channel strip of the Mixer! See
for more information.
Playing on the Controller
±6.1, Adjusting the
±6.3.1, Mute
Notes.
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