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▪ In your Project you can have any number of Groups. You can create, fill up, and delete
Groups as you see fit. If you delete a Group, all following Groups are shifted up in the
Group List to fill the gap. If you use more than eight Groups, another Group bank is auto-
matically created.
4.1.3 Selecting Multiple Sounds or Groups
In MASCHINE you can select multiple Sounds or multiple Groups at once. This notably allows you
to change a parameter value for all selected Sounds/Groups at a time!
To achieve this, MASCHINE distinguishes the “focus” from the “selection”:
▪ The focus determines what is displayed in the Control area and on your controller. For ex-
ample, by clicking a Sound in the Sound List you are putting the focus on that Sound,
and the Control area and your controller will display its parameters (Channel properties,
Plug-ins, etc.). For the focus, the following rule applies:
At each level (Sound and Group) there is always one object, and only one, in focus.
The focused object is highlighted in the Sound/Group List, and the background of its
leading letter and/or number has the color of the object itself.
The Sound Vocal AhHa is focused (and selected).
▪ The selection, on the other hand, determines what will be affected by your actions (e.g.,
adjusting a parameter). For example, the focused Sound (i.e. the one you clicked in the
Sound List) is implicitly selected — nothing special here: This just means that the Sound
whose parameters are currently displayed will be indeed affected by the changes you do
Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
Overview of the Sounds, Groups, and Master
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