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The Control Signal Flow—Pads in Keyboard Mode
The following diagram illustrates MASCHINE s signal flow between your hits on the pads in
Keyboard mode and the resulting sounds:
The signal flow including the new Perform features (Scale, Chord, and Arp) when your pads are in Keyboard mode.
In this picture, blue cells represent modules sending “control” signals, i.e. triggering messages
(e.g., the note messages sent by the pads as you press them), whereas red cells represent
modules sending audio signals (e.g., the sounds produced by the Instrument loaded in the
Sound slot as it receives the aforementioned note messages).
In this diagram you will notice the following:
▪ The Scale and Chord modules can feed the Arp module, the Scale module can also affect
the Chord module, as we will see later.
▪ The notes played on your pads are first sent to the Perform features (Scale, Chord, and Arp
engines), which send the resulting notes to the Pattern Editor. In other terms, you can re-
cord the generated scales, chords or arpeggiated notes into your Patterns. However, the
Perform features do not process the content of your Patterns.
Playing on the Controller
Performance Features
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