Colour coding Tips?
Hi there,
just bought Machine MK3 (I already own a S49-mk2 KK keyboard). Trying to learn to effectively use the pads. Colours should be helpful but a lot of expansions etc are not colour coded.
I get lost or have to check the pad-content constantly to see what I am doing...
Do you guys have any tips for most effective use of colour coding the pads?
- Colours per instrument type?
- Conventions a la Battery for kits?
- Colours for type of Group? (Instruments, Sample, Kit...)
- ...
Any suggestions and/or how you incorporate this in your workflow (I use Logic next to Maschine) are welcome!
Thx
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Most effective will depend on your taste, the more you complicate the harder it is to burn into your memory and possibly takes longer to setup if you're not a template kind of guy. I use 3 main colors for production regardless of what software I am using, something easy to memorize like:
🟧 Drums
🟧 Samples
🟥 Bass
🟦 Instruments
The Group order also is roughly always the same. Then I reserve 2 other extra colors for lead vocals and hook Group/Bus, so effectively I use 5 colors ussually, i tried more then this like having colors for particular instruments but then it gets too complicated for me to tell what is what at a glance and a raimbow project that looks like an RBG gaming keyboard or a xmas tree is not for me.
For Drum Groups I use PAD # placement rather than colors, Pad1 is always kick, Pad2 snare etc... So in most projects i know what is what.
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I'm using the same colours.
Purple for Aux/FX tracks.
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I use orange for drums, red for bass then it gets a bit random eg pads vs keys
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