User's Manual

Creating Groups on Your Controller
On your controller, existing Groups are indicated by the lit Group buttons A–H:
▪ The focused Group is indicated by the fully lit Group button.
▪ The other Groups of your Project are indicated by half-lit Group buttons, each Group button
showing the color of the corresponding Group.
▪ In the last Group bank the last half-lit Group button is white: It doesn’t correspond to any
existing Group, but instead allows you to create another Group in your Project.
To create a new Group:
1. Hold SHIFT and press the last lit Group button to select the last Group bank.
2. Release SHIFT.
3. Press the dimmed white Group button after all other lit Group buttons.
→ A new empty Group is created after the existing Groups with the default name and color.
If the last Group bank already contains eight Groups, pressing SHIFT + the last lit Group button at
the first step will directly create a new empty Group in a new Group bank!
Automatic Group Bank Management
In MASCHINE Group banks are managed automatically, so that you don’t have to create or de-
lete them manually. Group are always adjacent in the Group List: you cannot have any gap in
the Group List — nor in any Group bank. When you create a new Group, the following happens:
▪ As long as the last Group bank contains less than eight Groups, the new Group is created
in that bank.
▪ If the last bank already contains eight Groups, a new Group bank is automatically created
after the existing bank(s) and the new Group is created in that new bank.
5.3.2 Loading Groups
You can load a readymade Group from the Browser or from your operating system. The Group
can be included in the MASCHINE Library or any EXPANSION PACK but it can also be a
Group you have created yourself and saved for later use.
Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
Managing Groups
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