Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) - Manual (Page 282)

6.1.4 Using Choke Groups
When your pads are in Pad Mode, Choke groups allow you to build sets of “mutually exclusive”
pads: A Choke group lets you force each newly triggered Sound to cancel out all other Sounds
still playing — in other terms, these Sounds would never play together, the newer Sound auto-
matically “killing” the audio of the older one. This is a behavior you can find in vintage drum
machines (typically used to “choke” the open hi-hat with the closed one), but also in mono-
phonic synthesizers that are only capable of playing one note at a time.
Within a Group, each pad can be assigned to one of eight Choke groups. When you assign a
pad to a Choke group, the pad may be set as a Master or Slave in the Choke group:
▪ If the pad is set to Master (default setting) it will kill the Sounds of other pads in the same
Choke group.
▪ If the pad is set to Slave it won’t kill any other pad of the Choke group — but be killed by
pads set to Master within the same group.
You may set more than one pad as Master or Slave within the same group.
Choke groups affect not only the notes you play on the pads and the notes triggered by the Patterns,
but also the MIDI notes controlling your Sounds.
You can select multiple Sounds and quickly assign them all to a particular Choke group at once!
To assign the selected Sound slot(s) to a Choke group and set its/their Choke mode (Master or
Slave), do the following:
1.
Click the Pad View button above the Sound List in the Pattern Editor to show the Pad
view for the focused Group.
2. In the Choke section click the Group value and select the desired group 1 – 8 from the list
or choose None (default setting) to remove the Sound from its current Choke group.
3. In the same Choke section click the Mode value ( Master or Slave ) to switch the Sound
between Master (default setting) and Slave mode.
4. Repeat the steps above to assign other pads to the same Choke group.
Playing on the Controller
Adjusting the Pads
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