Maschine 2 - Pattern Position vs Pattern Start?

Tom Auger

Hi Maschine friends. One thing I've come across has me scratching my head instead of my vinyl: In Pattern mode, you have both a Pattern Position associated with knob 1 and Pattern Start, associated with knob 3.

As far as I can tell they are identical, and what's more, changing the value for one automatically changes the value for the other. I have been fiddling and haven't figured out how to have them behave in any other way than linked… at least with the hardware.

I was hoping one would allow me to set the start of the pattern LOOP, where the other might set the starting position when you initially launch the pattern. Ableton does this and it's a very useful feature.

Am I wrong about these two being identical? It seems really weird to have two parameters that do the same thing…