What I call “Matrix Mode” in Maschine is basically a live arrangement workflow built around Groups and Lock States.
The idea is to organize the project so that each main element has its own Group, for example drums in Group A, bass or melody in Group B, textures in C, vocals or FX in D and so on.
Once the instrumental structure is ready, I enter Lock Mode and start memorizing different combinations of Groups into pads.
For example:
Pad 1 = intro with A + B active,
Pad 2 = A + D + E,
Pad 3 = full groove,
etc.
The combinations depend entirely on how you build your track and how you want the energy to evolve. Using mute states together with Lock snapshots lets you create a kind of live matrix where each pad becomes a different state of the song. What I like about this approach is that it turns Maschine into more than a sequencer, it becomes a performance structure where you can move through the track dynamically in real time instead of following a fixed linear arrangement. The interesting part is not only the sound itself, but how the behavior of the song changes depending on how you interact with those states live.
