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

6.4.2

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
Chord Parameters.
Selecting a Scale
Let9s choose a particular scale, say, minor pentatonic. On your controller, do the following:
1. Switch the focus to a Sound slot containing a polyphonic instrument, or load one into the
desired Sound slot.
2. Press KEYBOARD
3. Press the Right Arrow button to access the
4. Turn the Encoder to select a Bank.
5. Press the Right Arrow button to access the
6. Turn the Encoder to select a scale type.
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Hit a few pads: They trigger only notes from the selected scale. The pads corresponding to
the root note (C3 by default) and its octaves are fully lit.
Now let9s start the scale on D3 instead of C3:
1. Press the Left Arrow button twice to select the
2. Turn the Encoder clockwise to set a new root note.
to enter Keyboard Mode.
Bank parameter.
Type parameter.
RootNote parameter.
Playing on the Controller
Performance Features
±6.4.3, Scale and
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