User's Manual

6.3 Playing Tools
On top of the various pad settings described in the previous section (see ↑6.1, Adjusting the
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: ↑6.3.1, Mute
and Solo.
▪ Choke All Notes allow you to cut all playing audio: ↑6.3.2, Choke All Notes.
▪ Groove allows you to give a shuffling flair to individual Sounds/Groups or to your entire
Project: ↑6.3.3, Groove.
▪ Hardware Shortcuts give you a quick access to the most important parameters of each chan-
nel (Sound, Group, and Master): ↑6.3.4, Level, Tempo, Tune, and Groove Shortcuts on
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
won’t 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 Mute button available in each channel strip of the Mixer! See
section ↑13.2.5, Adjusting Settings in the Channel Strips for more information.
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 — but any audio re-
maining from past events for this Sound will still be audible until it fades away. You can
Playing on the Controller
Playing Tools
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