Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Groove Production Studio (Black) - Manual (Page 828)

Once you have set a custom color for a Scene as described above, the Scene will retain its color
when you move it in the Song view, and the color will be stored with the Scene when you save your
Project. Note that you can select the same color as the one used by default: In this case the color
(even unchanged) will be considered as a custom color and will follow the Scene as you move it.
16.3 Using Song View
In MASCHINE, a song is made of a variable number of Scenes, which represent the different
parts of the song, for example, intro, verse, chorus, break, another verse. By assigning your
Scenes to Sections to the Timeline in the Song view you can start to organize your track.
The Song view is where you can sequence Scenes to create your final arrangement. This proc-
ess involves creating a Section on the Timeline and assigning a Scene to it. Any Scene that
exists in the Ideas view can be assigned to a Section in the Song view. You can change the
length of the Section (determining the playback length of the Scene) or re-order the Sections
as you see fit. You can also re-use the same Scene in multiple Sections in the timeline, or you
can choose to assign no Scene to the Section at all.
One powerful aspect of the relationship between the Ideas view and Song view is that the con-
tent in these two areas are actually one-in-the-same. This means that if you make a change to
a Scene it will affect all other instances of that Scene automatically. If you place a Scene in
three different Sections of the Timeline and then proceed to change the Patterns assigned to
that Scene, the other two instances of that Scene also play the newly-assigned Patterns. It’s
therefore very easy to make changes to individual Patterns and Scenes after the arrangement
has been made and immediately hear the results in the context of the arrangement, and those
changes can be made in either Ideas or Song view.
16.3.1 Section Management Overview
In the software, all Sections can be managed from the Song view.
To open the Section Manager:
Working with the Arranger
Using Song View
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