Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) - Manual (Page 173)

ment. The right display shows you the pitch triggered by each pad. You can use Buttons 5–8 to
adjust the Root Note (triggered by pad 1 ), and Knobs 1–4 to configure the Scale engine and
limit the available pitches to a particular scale. By pressing KEYBOARD again, you can hide its
parameters from the displays and return to your previous workflow while keeping Keyboard
mode enabled on your pads; as a reminder, the KEYBOARD button will stay lit as long as your
pads are in Keyboard mode. Press SHIFT + KEYBOARD to switch your pads to Keyboard mode
without switching the displays to the mode parameters.
(12) CHORDS button: Press
CHORDS to switch the pads to Chords mode. The Chords mode is
similar to the Keyboard mode (see the KEYBOARD button (11) above) with the difference that
each pad triggers a whole chord instead of a single note. You can use Knob 3 and 4 to config-
ure the chord you want to play. By pressing
CHORDS again, you can hide its parameters from
the displays and return to your previous workflow while keeping Chords mode enabled on your
pads; as a reminder, the
CHORDS button will stay lit as long as your pads are in Chords mode.
Press SHIFT + CHORDS to switch your pads to Chords mode without switching the displays to
the mode parameters.
(13) STEP button: Press
STEP to switch the pads to Step mode. Step mode turns your MA-
SCHINE controller into a full-featured step sequencer. In this mode, each pad represents one
step of the selected Step Grid resolution. During playback, a running light through the pads
represents the current position of the step sequencer. Pressing the pads creates notes on the
corresponding steps (causing them to light up) or it removes them. For more information on
Step mode, refer to
↑ 8, Creating Beats with the Step Sequencer . By pressing STEP again, you
can hide its parameters from the displays and return to your previous workflow while keeping
Step mode enabled on your pads; as a reminder, the
STEP button will stay lit as long as your
pads are in Step mode. Press SHIFT + STEP to switch your pads to Step mode without switch-
ing the displays to the mode parameters.
(14) FIXED VEL button: Press
FIXED VEL to enable/disable the Fixed Velocity option. By default,
the pads are sensitive to velocity: The harder you hit them, the louder the sound will be. With
Fixed Velocity enabled, your pads play at the same volume no matter how hard you hit them.
For example, this can be very handy when you are triggering slices of a loop from your pads
and want to have all slices at the same volume. Fixed Velocity is available in all four pad input
modes: Group, Keyboard, Chords and Step (see above for more info on these). Press
SHIFT +
FIXED VEL to enable/disable the 16 Velocities option. In this mode your pads play the same
note (pitch) of the focused Sound but with 16 different velocity values. This can be useful to
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