► Press the left arrow below the display to select POSITION and turn the Control encoder toalter the position of the whole loop.→ The position of the loop range is adjusted.Activating or Deactivating a Loop Using MASCHINE MIKROTo activate a Loop using the controller:► Press SHIFT + RESTART to activate or deactivate the loop.→ When the loop is activated the Scenes within the Loop range are repeated. When the loopis deactivated the Scenes in the loop will play once only.13.3 Managing ScenesSequencing music in MASCHINE is done in a multi-tiered manner, the tiers being Patterns,Scenes, and Timeline. The most basic building block in the MASCHINE sequencer is the Pat-tern. This is where you program notes (events) and control information that trigger the Sounds,Instruments, and Effects loaded into a Group. You can have multiple Groups in your MA-SCHINE project, and each Group has its own unique set of Patterns.Each Group will usually correspond to a musical element in your composition, such as Drums,Bassline, and Melody. You will then use the Patterns in these Groups to create motifs, riffs, orgrooves for each part. For example, in the case of the drums, you might have a Pattern for theintro groove, a Pattern for the verse groove, and a third Pattern for the chorus groove. You canthen make similar Patterns for the Bassline and Melody.Once you’ve created these various musical motifs, you’ll probably want to group them togetherto create “sections” in your composition. For example, the intro section of your song wouldprobably include the intro Drum Pattern, the intro Bassline Pattern, and the intro Melody Pat-tern all playing together. This is the purpose of a Scene, which is essentially just a “snapshot”of what Patterns should be playing on the Groups at any given time. You can have multipleScenes in your project which correspond to multiple sections in your song, though only oneScene can play at a time. For example, you can have a Scene for the intro (as was just descri-bed), another Scene for the verse (which contains all the verse Patterns) and a third Scene forthe chorus (which contains all the chorus Patterns). This now gives you the ability to play yourCreating a Song Using ScenesManaging ScenesMASCHINE MIKRO - Manual - 733
