I posted about this a couple of days ago and got no replies, but I think maybe I asked the question in a way that wasn't entirely clear, so I'm going to try to simplify it and make it more generic.
Say you have an instrument that you see in Maschine under the instruments section. And said instrument either says so in the preset name, or you know some way that it's been mapped for Maschine.
Now, if you want to use Maschine in Pad Mode, then each of the 16 sounds has to have a preset mapped to it, and all of them different presets with different instruments mapped to the same MIDI note, otherwise you end up with 16 instances of the same instrument and note.
Now, if you load one preset from one instrument that's been mapped for Maschine, you can play the different notes, but all the pads are going to be the same color because that's the way it works. It inherits the color that you set for that particular sound.
But, it seems to me, that there has to be a way, to grab a preset that's been mapped for Maschine specifically, with different colors and all, which show on the Native Instruments MIDI keyboard, with those same colors in Maschine, so they show like that in the Mikro 3 pads.
That's the part I'm missing, because the only way I found to open those presets is to load them into one sound, and switch to keyboard mode, which plays them all, but all with the same color, because it's just one sound in the world of Maschine.
Is there a way to load a preset as a group instead of a sound?