Installation Manual

11 Playing Live
At last we come to the real point of the Scenes: playing your song!
Creating a Studio Track or Performing Live
If you are composing a studio track that you plan to export as is, you can assign your Scenes to
Sections in the Song view and arrange your song so that your whole track can be played in one
go from the very first Scene to the very last one. For more information on arranging your song
and using Sections, refer to: ↑10, Creating an Arrangement.
If you are preparing a track for a live performance, you will probably want to trigger different
Scenes using the pads. To help with this MASCHINE provides some useful tools.
11.1 Performing with Scenes and Sections using the Pads
MASCHINE provides you with settings to fine-tune the timing of the jump between the Scenes
and Sections:
▪ The Perform Grid lets you quantize the Scene transitions: You can choose the point at which
the playback will leave the current Scene (Ideas view) or Section (Song view). For example,
you might not want a newly selected loop to fire off immediately — you might want it to
wait until the next bar line. The available quantization values are: one bar, one half note,
one quarter note, one eighth note, one sixteenth note, the whole Scene/Section, and Off. If
you choose Off, the Scene/Section change will be performed immediately after you select
the next loop.
▪ The Retrigger setting lets you decide where the next loop will start:
◦ If Retrigger is enabled, the next Section (Ideas view) or Section (Song view) that is se-
lected will be forced to play from the start. This is useful if you always want your
Scenes or Sections to play from the beginning regardless of what’s happening else-
where in the music.
Playing Live
Performing with Scenes and Sections using the Pads
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