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Assigning Macro Controls is done in the Pages pane of the Assignment area when the Macro

properties are selected.

Assigning the Macro Controls is possible in the software only.

Opening the Pages Pane in the Assignment Area

First of all, you need to open the Pages pane of the Assignment area for Macro properties:

1. Select the Macro properties of the desired channel (Sound, Group, or Master).

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2. Click the down-pointing arrow in the bottom left corner of the Control area to reveal the

Assignment area underneath:

3. Click the Pages tab in the left part of the Assignment area:

→ The Pages tab lights up and the Pages pane appears on its right. You are now ready to

assign Macro Controls to parameters.

Once the Assignment area is open, when you switch to other Parameter pages the As- signment area follows your selection: it always shows the assignments for the page cur- rently displayed above.

The Pages tab can be clicked only for Native Instruments or External Plug-ins and for Macro properties. For all other Plug-ins and properties, parameters and Parameter pages are not editable, and the Pages tab is grayed out and inactive.

When the Pages pane of the Assignment area is open, you also notice a few changes in the

Control area above.

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The Control area with the Pages pane active in the Assignment area underneath.

(1) Delete Page button (“x” symbol): Click the little “x” after a page name to delete this Parame- ter page.

(2) Add Page button (“+” symbol): Click the little “+” after the last page label to append a new

page. By default, pages are labeled “Page 1,” “Page 2,” etc. You can change page labels by defining sections within your pages via the Section Label fields (3).

(3) Section Label fields: These fields allow you to define sections of parameters within the dis- played page. Double-click the field above the first parameter you want to include in the sec- tion, type the desired name for the section, and press [Enter] to confirm. The new section will include all following parameters until the next section starts (this can be seen only after you have closed the Assignment area). Moreover, the Parameter page will mirror the label(s) of its section(s) — if there is more than one section, the page label will mirror all of them, separated by slashes.

(4) Focus frame: Indicates the Macro Control being assigned. Click any Macro Control to display and edit its assignment in the Target selector below (6).

(5) Parameter Label fields: Double-click these fields to enter custom labels for your parameters (press [Enter] to confirm). These labels will be mirrored everywhere in MASCHINE for the cor- responding parameters.

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(6) Target selector: Displays and selects the target parameter of the selected Macro Control (in- dicated by the Selection frame). This multi-level drop-down widget allows you to quickly navi- gate through the structure of the channel to the desired parameter. The detailed procedure is explained in the next paragraph.

(7) Reset Assignment button: Click the Reset button to remove the assignment for the selected

knob.

Selecting a Parameter in the Target Selector

The Target selector (see picture above) allows you to choose from all available parameters for each Macro Control.

The Target selector allows you to quickly select the desired parameter.

This tool is similar to a menu containing several levels of submenus — with the notable differ- ence that every intermediary selection stays visible for faster switching.

When assigning a new, unassigned Macro Control, do the following:

1. Click the Select menu (for now the only menu of the Target selector).

The menu is organized into subcategories: Settings (listing the properties of the current

Channel), Slots (listing the Plug-ins loaded in the current Channel), and possibly a third

category listing the Channels included at the next level: if you’re editing the Macro prop-

erties of the Master you will see the Groups subcategory listing all Groups of your Project,

and if you are editing the Macros of a Group you will see the Sounds subcategory listing

all Sounds in that Group.

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2. Upon your selection in the previous menu, the menu takes the name of your selection, and another menu appears on its right which allows you to refine your search (e.g., by list- ing all Parameter pages of the selected Plug-in or Channel). This continues until a param- eter is reached and you select it.

→ Upon the selection of a parameter, the Macro Control is assigned to this parameter.

Note that the whole path to this parameter stays visible in the Target selector: this lets you modify a single selection without starting from the topmost channel and going through the en- tire selection process again:

► To modify a particular item in the selection shown by the Target selector, click it and se-

lect another item for that level.

If the items in the further selection chain don’t fit to your new selection anymore, they will be reset.